The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-21

IN the hope that the following
thoughts suggested on reading the re
cent lecture on so-called Christian
science recently delivered in Rich
mond, may contain germ of the
| truth of Christ the following is re-
/ specially submitted to the many
readers of the Palladium.
The writer is fond of playing with
an only grand daughter four years old,
who has been taught to never tell an
untruth and is very conscientious IN
| the matter, so when she formally in
PRODUCES Mr.. and Mrs. so-and-so from
- my very dear friends whom /
am delighted to see." she then slyly
steps up and whispers softly in my
ear-"Fa, We will just play like it is
them, but it isent' though" As it
reads to the writer, the lecturer would
have us just play like his propositions
are so. The word mind is a syno-
nym for God" he says; that Christian
science" declares that God is mind
and mind is God" Now a very casual
study of anatomy and physiology will
convince any reasonable person that
it is simply a physical impossibility to
have mind without a normal brain;
from this viewpoint therefore, God
would be no better than man with a
normal brain. According to this doc
trim, Mind, Principle, Good, God, mean
one and the same thing. Why not as
well add wheel-barrow and tree also?
1t certainly required mind and thought
to construct a wheel-barrOw and there
is nothing better when it is the tling
required, and what is more useful and
grand than the beautiful tree? If
God has mind, it must be the re-
suit of a material organized brain.
and he would know just when and how
to use wheel-barrow, and how to
appreciate the tree. When word-val
ues must be perverted to express any
sort of philosophy or doctrine, that
doctrine will impress the self-thinking
mind as a play upon words simply.
The lecturer would have us play
like" Mrs. Eddy is the sole embodi-
ment of all the truth that science and
religion contains or ever did afford,
that before Mrs. Eddy gave us her
Science and HEALTH the world was
cropping in densest ignorance. He
says, SCiCACS, III
this process of correcting human be-
liefs and opinions, and giving a scien.
tific basis for religion, takes away the
old personal thought concerning God
and establishes q better one" More
than three hundred and fifty-seven
years ago, Michael Servetus, a very
learned physician of Geneva, opposed
the dogma of two natures" of God, he
says ITO speak of the Nature of God is
absurd; for the word nature can only
apply to something created, something
born from the latin natus.) But God
is from eternity" Servetus' concep-
ton of God is perhaps the grandest
ever given by any writer, he says,
God is eternal, one and indivisible,
and himself inscrutable, but making
His being known in and through Gre
alton; so that not only is every living,
but every lifeless thing, an aspect OF
Deity. Before creation was, God was;
but neither was he light. nor word,
nor spirit, but some ineffable thing
else,-sed quid aliud ineffabile."
Again he writes, 'The Holy Spirit
always say is the motion of God in
cannot properly be said to be any
Holy Spirit When we consider that
in Servetus' time, before science was
yet developed, when experimental re-
search was considered a high crime
in the eyes of the clergy, who not
only ruled with an iron hand religious
thought and belief, but the state also,
and any one who dared to think for
himself and question orthodoxy in
any direction, took his lie in his own
hands and usually gave it up in
smoke at the stake, as did Michael
Servetus on the 27th day of October,
1858. near Geneva: at a time when
speculative theories and religious
dominated absolutely, it
is simply marvellous to us in this en-
lightened day. in what. and through
what difficulties the human mind has
onward and upward in
quest OF "the pearl of great p, e.
truth.
Most physicians have in their IL
braries such works as illustrations Of
the Influence of the Mind upon the
Body" and Manual of Psyschologi-
Daniel Hack luke. NJ. D., F. r. c. P
LII. D. Body and Mind" and The
Pathology of the Mind written il
1SG6-1S1S by Henry Maudsley. NJ. d.
1t will be remembered that Mrs. Eddy.
then Mrs. Patterson. the wife of DR..
Patterson, became the patient, and
then a student of p P. Quimby, then
a famous mesmerist who treated the
sick without medicines in 1921; DR..
Patterson, her husband. no doubt had
these works in his library TO which his
wife certainly had access. Quimby was
4 close student. very extensive reader,
and voluminous writer. He had
written more than a dozen books on
his favorite study of psychic or mind
phenomena, and the suggestive treat
nent of the sick. but carefully kept
hem all from the press until such time
rs his busy 1ir would permit him 20
revise and rect them before
ne should has5 them published. But
n the meantime Mrs. Patterson was
given free access 70 read them |