Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-05
Mark Train on Christian Science

|
| now in the press, on Christian Sci
ence The matter below is from adj
| vance sheets of the work as publshed
! IN the New York World of last Sum
| day. 1t is reproduced in the Times
Republican entirely as Mr. Clemens
views on a great woman and a wide
spread and growing cult, and Will
prove very interesting to all who have
| followed the newspaper and magazine
discussion over Mrs. Eddy and her toi-
| lowers.-Ed
| No charities to support. No, nor ev-
| en- to contribute to. One searches III
| vain the trusts advertisements and the
utterances of its organs for any sug-
gestion that it spends a penny on Or
phans. widows, discharged prisoners,
hospitals, ragged schools. night mis-
sions. city missions, libraries, old peo-
pies homes, or any other object that
appeals to a human beings purse thru
his heart.
/ have hunted, hunted. and hunted.
by correspondence and otherwise, ana
have not yet got upon the track OF d
farthing that the trust has spent upon
ony worthy object. Nothing makes
Scientist so uncomfortable as to ask
him if he knows of a case where Chris
tian Science has spent money on
beneyolence, either among Its own ad-
herents or elsewhere. He is Obliged
to say NO"
-Four wears ago there were six Chris
titan Scientists in a certain town that
am acquainted with; year ago tnere
were two hundred and fifty there; they
have built church, and its mem
bership now numbers four hundred.
This has all been quietly done; done
without frenzied revivals, without UNI
forms, brass bands, street parades' COZ
ner oratory, or any of the other Gus
tomary persuasions to a godly lie.
Christian Science, like Mohammedan-
ism. is Restricted" to the "unlntelll-
gent, the people who do not think
There lies the danger. 1t makes
Christian Science formidable. 1T IS
..restricted" to ninety-one one num-
dredths of the human race, ond must
he reckoned with by regular Christian
jty. And will be, as soon as 1T is TOO
late.
without an amicable agreement. IN
several ways she is the most interest
ing woman that ever lived ana lhs
most extraordinary The same may be
said of her career, and the same may
be said of it's chief result. She start
ed from nothing. Mrs. Eddy has one
very curious and interesting peculiarl-
ty. whenever she notices that she is
chortlng along without saying any
thing, she pulls up with sudden eIoa
is over us ALL or some other sounding
irrelevancy, and for the moment IL
seems to light up the whole district
then, before you can recover from the
shock, she goes fitting pleasantly ana
meannglessly along again. and you
hurry hopefully after her, thinking you
are going to get something this tlme'
but as soon as she has led you lar
enough away from her turkeylet she
takes to tree. Whenever she dlscov-
ers that she is getting pretty dlscoh-
nected, she couples up with an oslen
tatious But which has nothing to DO
with anything that went before or is
To come after, then she hltcheS some
empties to the train-unrelated verses
from the Bible, usually-and steams
out of sight and leaves you wondering
how she did that clever thing.
When Christian Science was Gratis.
Thus far we have a part of Mrs. Ed
dy's portrait Not made of fctlons,
surmises. reports, rumors, innuendoes,
dropped by her enemies; no, she mas
furnished all of the materials herself.
and laid them on the canvas, under my
general superintendent and direction.
AS far as she has gone with 1T, 1t is
the presentation of complacent, COM
monplace, illiterate New England wo-
man. who forget everything she knew
when she discovered her recovery; then
wrote a Bible in good English under
the inspiration of God, and climbed up
jt to the supremest summit of earthly
grandeur attainable by man-Where
she sits serene today. beloved and Wor-
shipped by a multitude of human be-
ngs of as good average Intelligence as
is possessed by those that march under
the banner of any competing cult. This
is not intended to fatter the Compel
ing cults, it is merely a statement OF
cold fact.
She published book. She copy
|righted 1t. She copyrights everything.