Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-04-22
(continued from Saturday,

Mark Twain can not swallow:
"a little far Western girl of mine.
equipped with an adult vocabulary,
states her age and says I thought |
would write demonstration to YOU
She had claim, derived from get
ting flung over pony's head ana
landed on u rock pile. She saved
herself from disaster by remember
ing 20 say God is all while she was
in the air. | couldn't have done 1t.
| shouldn't even have thought of II.
| should have been too excited. Moth
ing but Christian Science would have
enabled that child to do that calm
and thoughtful and judicious thing
in those circumstances. She came
down on her head, and by all the
rules she should have broken 1t; but
the intervention of the formula pre-
vented that so the only claim re-
sulting was blackened eye. Mon
day morning 1t was still swollen and
shut. At school It hurt pretty badly
that IL, It seemed to. So | was ex-
cused, and went down to the base
ment and said, Now | am depending
on mamma instead of on God, and |
will depend on God instead of NAM
ma. No doubt this would have an
swercd; but, to make sure, she add
ed Mrs. Eddy to the team and recited
the Scientific Statement of Being,
which Is one of the principal incanta-
tions, | judge. Then 4 felt my eye
opening Why, dear, 1t would have
opened an oyster. think II Is one
of the touchingest things in child
history. that pious little rat down
ccllar pumping away at the Scientific
Statement of Being"
But 1t seems that Christian Science
is applicable not only to human be-
ings but even to animals, and here,
too. the author has to draw line.
lie is willing to believe, he is auX-
lcus to believe, but he has his llmi-
| tations:
There is tho account Of the restor-
alton TO perfect health, In single
night, of fatally injured horse, by
the application of Christian Science.
| can stand u good deal, but | rcCog-
nize that the Ice is getting pretty
thin here. That horse had as many
as fifty claims; how could he demon-
strate over thcil? Could he do the
! hll-Good, Good-GOod, Good-Gracious,
Liver. Bones. Truth, All down but
Nine. Set Them Up on the Other
| Alley? Could he intone the Scien-
tihc Statement of Being? Now,
could he? Wouldn't II give him n
relapse? Let us draw the line at
horscs-horses and furniture"
So much for the claims of Chris
er men or horses. Mark Twain makes
us laugh all the time, hut he is fair
srrupulously fair. He holds no brief
either for the churches or for tho
doctors, and he seems to think that Il
man has perfect right to get cured
In any way he pleases, or TO stay UNI
cured II he wishes. Indeed. he
points out that rltiouEh medica
treatment by Christian Scientists may
be illegal, so il would be Illegal, anC
therefore immoral, for Jesus Christ
himself to cure the sick II lie shout
come amongst us In this twentieth
century.
II Is against the Christian Scienc,
organization that the author launch
Us his Nominations, not at the thing
taught by the organization. III
fhows that the organization, with
Mrs. Eddy at its head, is one vas
tcheme for making money. The dol
lar faint is over 1t all, and ever!
hook, every hymn, every bylaw, ev
cry detail of an immense and comp!i
rnted mechanism is intended to sat
isfy, not Il mere commercial instinct
hut a colossal and Il grasping grccI
almost without its parallel in tn
history of religion. Already the IN
come of the organization Is vast. II
The days to come 1t will be yaster.
in those days the Trust will hav
an income approaching five million
dollars n day, and no expenses to b
taken out of 1t; no taxes to pay an
no charities to support. That las
detail should not be lightly passe'
ever by the reader; 1t is well entltlet
to attention.
mo charities to support No, no
oven to contribute to. One searchc
In vain the Trusts advertisement
md the utterances of its organs 70
any suggestion that it spends pen
ny on, orphans, widows, discharge
, prisoners, hospitals, ragged schools
hight missions, city missions, libra,
ries, old peoples homes, or any otho
object that appeals to human be
,ng's purse through his heart"
The author has hunted industri
cusly to find single farthlng tina
has been spent upon any worthy oh
iect. Indeed, the officials openl
: avOw that none of this vast incom
: Il so employed. SLY? Deep? Jul
dlcious? The Trust understands 1t
luSinosg The Trust does not Civ