Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-05

and nursed, but that she may apply
that dollar to statelier uses, and place
it where it may cast the metallic sheen
of her glory farthest across the re-
ceding expanses of the globe.
A prominent Christian Scientist has
assured me that the Scientists do not
worship Mrs. Eddy, and think it likely
that there may be five or six of the
cult in the world who do not worship
her; but she herself is certainly not
of that company. Any healthy minded
person who will examine Mrs. Eddy's
little autobiography and the manual
of by-laws written by her will be con-
WINGED that she worships herself; and
that she brings to this service a fer
vor of devotion surprising even that
which she formerly laid at the feet
of the dollar. and equalling any which
rises to the throne of grace from any
quarter
We may take that up now.
ii is not a single If. but several
jointed one; not AN oyster, but a verte-
brate.
T. Did Mrs Eddy borrow from
Qurimby the Great Idea or only the
little one. the old timer, the ordinary
mental healing by mortal.
mind,
. III she borrowed the Great Idea
did she carry 1t away in her head, or
in manuscript?
g. Did she hit upon the Great Idea
herself!
By the Great Idea I mean of course.
the conviction that the Force involved
was still existent, and could be applied
now lust as it was applied by Christ
disciples and their converts, and as
successfully
4. Did she phlosophize 1T, systema-
tie 1t. and write it down in book?
5 Was it she, and not another. tina
built "a new religion upon the book ana
organized it?
I think No. can be answered with
a YES and dismissed from the contro-
versy. And i think that the Great
Idea, great as it was, would have en-
loved but brief activity, and would
then have gone to sleep again for some
more centuries but for the perpetual
ing impulse 1t got from that organized
and tremendous force.
Wearing the LaureIs Of Another.
In the very first revision Of
Science and Health dSS3) Mrs.
Eddy wrote a preface which
is an unimpeachable witness
that the rest of the book was
written by somebody else. I have put
1t In the appendix along with page
or two taken from the body of the
book and will ask the reader to COM
pare the labored and numbering and
confused groupings of this preface with
lish of the other exhibit, and see If ne
can believe that the one hand ana
brain produced both.
/ think that if anything in the world
stands proven, and we'll and solidly
proven, by unimpeachable testimony
the treacherous testimony of her own
pen in her known and undisputed ut
erary productions-it is that Mrs. Ed
dy is not capable of thinking upon high
planes nor of reasoning clearly nor
writing intelligently upon low ones.
Inasmuch as-in my belief-the very
first editions of the book, Science and
Health" were far above the reach OF
Mrs. Eddy's mental and literary abil-
tiles, l think she has from the very
beginning been claiming as her own
another persons book, and wearing as
her own property laurels rightfully be-
longing to that person-the real author
of Science and Health" And / think
the reason-and the only reason-that
he has not protested is because his
work was not exposed to print until
after he was safely dead.
That with an eye to business and
by grace of her business talent she has
restored to the world neglected and
abandoned features of the Christian re-
ligion which her thousands of follow
ers find gracious and blessed and con-
tenting, I recognize and confess; but |
I am convinced that every single detail
of the work except just that one
the delivery of the product to the
conceived and performed
by another.