The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-21

world. AS for the bearing of the "Gold~ en Rule" upon this discussion, one of my anonymous brethren should remem- Der that it does not run Do unto oth- CTS as they would that ye should do unto them" In training his children, he | has learned that he must do many 1 things to them which are not as they would and which are not as he, If he were merely child with child's un- derstanding would want done to him by them If they were his parents. But he Is to do unto them as In the light of his present mature understanding he would want them to do to him were their positions reversed. With this prin- ciple in thought my brother will be- lieve me trust, when say that were in the future to fall into a state of mind which would make it possible for me to accept as true such statement as the following from "science and Health"-
 "The daily ablutions of an infant are no more natural or necessary than would be the process of taking fish out of water every day, and covering 1t with dirt, in order to make it thrive more vigorously thereafter in It's native element" if, say,I should ever become capable of crediting the like of that, 1 should thank God to have anybody restore me by any means whatso- ever to rational thought. Like freez- ing man might fight against those who would rouse me from my fatal | stupor; might accuse such of seeking | to overthrow my most sacred beliefs in discrediting such statement from the Discoyerer of Christian Science" but l all the same those who saved me from crediting an absurdity which no "cona text" can redeem, would be fulfilling the very spirit of the Golden Rule" John Wesley has been imported into this discussion; that great and good man did one very foolish thing and said one very foolish thing: he married Mrs. Wesley and he said that to give up belief in witchcraft was to give up the Bible. At the Wesleyan bicen- tennial in the Middletown church of which I was then pastor, two sons of Methodist ministers, Richard Watson Glider and Prof c, T. Winchester, made one of the evenings memorable by poem and address, and as Prof lWinchesters humor played over certain aspects of Wesley's life and character no one thought the less of the speaker or of his great subject who had shared the limitations of an earlier age. I should rejoice to be disabused of any irrationality inhering in my Methodist faith If such can be pointed out. Meth odism to me is nothing but what Chal- mers called it Christianity in Earn est; If Methodism ought to be divest- ca of any unrecognized error or ought to incorporate any unrecognized good I should be only grateful for the light to make either plain and should do I my utmost toward the needed excision or ingrafting.
 It has been my purpose throughout this course to reserve the consideration of the true and valuable elements in so-called Christian Science" until the last, that the final impression might be positive and constructive. My crit les, however, seem to have become too nervous to walt for the discussion of the therapeutic effects of their cult un- til the error, with which they mistake enly identify such effects, has been thoroughly dealt with. They have not even attempted to answer q single ar- gument adduced In the course of our discussion thus far They have affirmed that have misrepresented Mrs. Eddy's teaching but they can give no instance of quotation whose meaning would be altered by any amount of context they might wish to print.
 They have denied statement or two, lbut they have not substantiated such denial by any argument. When one Is really 'in Christian Science" as they say, denial of anything and everythine which disagrees with Mrs. Eddye teaching becomes foregone conclusion it is the only permissible mental re. action upon the approach of dlffer- ent thought; denial becomes simply habitual and automatic; it Is not de- nial because of evidence or of reason; 1 It Is the dogmatlc resistance of a mind indurated by supposedly divine and infallible truth; and as this supposed truth" is Itself absolutely subversive of evidence and reason, It's acceptance
 by mind renders that mind inpervi- ous to all disturbing facts and confut- ] ing arguments whatsoever. The Rev
 James Henry Wiggin, the Unitarian minister and author, who from 1885 tc 1889 was Mrs Eddy's literary adviser and, in her employ, rewrote for her the ' book "Science and Health for the edi.
 tion of 1886 reeounts that "One of Mrs ) Eddy's followers went so far as to sax
 that If she saw Mrs. Eddy commit z
 crime she should believe her own sigh
 at fault, not Mrs Eddy's conduct" Ant so one is obliged to understand that a | denial on the part of Christian Scien
 tist of anything with which he does no
 agree, has no significance except as ar
 inevitable symptom of the de1usion un
 der which he Is laboring. Now I knoN
 this Is plain speaking but 1t is 1us
 such speaking as should be gratefu for if were ever feund believing suct a paragraph as the following: "A dis flocatlon of the tarsal joint Gin the in
 step) would produce insanity as percep.
 tlble as that produced by congestion O
 the brain, were 1t not that mortal mint
 thinks this joint less intimately con
 nected with the mind than is the brain
 Reverse this belief, and the results would be pereeptibly different" Sucl . a statement is simply and utterly false
 it is not sacred, it is only silly. Fol the Eddyite, pressure on the brain hai no more real connection with producing inconsistencies than pressure on thu nrnat tnn E,rn.an r,,,. hnnrt sai+-. L1..