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

cause of the erroneous teaching of this new religion, which claims to teach in Jesus name. It makes it's pro- gress because it carries in it's message a mighty truth, but It has wrapped round and round the truth the most egregious and fearful errors, which bring ruin, desolation, death" The truth of Christian Science" is the truth of Christian optimism and sug- gestive Therapeutics, the error is the Hindu speculation that the physical world is a subjective illusion. Mrs. Ed dy's cures demonstrate the above truth, her failures demonstrate the above err TOT. These failures are as numerous as the efforts of Eddyism to treat eases not amenable to niind-cure. In such cases she could do nothing for herself as we have ample proof and 1t is nat ural to suppose that she could do noth- ing for others. Tn a letter dated 62 N. State street, Concord, N. H., Aug. 2s, 1890, Mrs. Eddy explains to her corre- spondent why she had allowed certain recent corrections upon her mss. made by Rev Mir. Wiggin and not approved by her, to go to the printer. She writes: "When he returned the first proofs belief Out don't name this to anyone) prevented my examining them as I should otherwise have done and, to prevent delay, the proof was sent to the printer" She means that she was too i'll to read the proofs-this woman for whom illness has no real existence. Tn the same way, though sbones "are only an appearance, q sub jective state of mortal mind" when those particular subjective states known as Mrs. Eddy's teeth seemed to need extracting she went to Dr. Fletch- CT of Y North Main street, Concord, N. H.; though she knew pain to have Tho existence, she submitted to the ap- plication of a local anaesthetic and though she claims that she can "re- store decaylng bones to healthy condi- tion," she is to-day using artificial teeth. Her failure to heal herself Is due to the falsity of her Hindu meta physics.
 The question as to the duty of the modern church to "heal the sick" with out the use of physical means shall consider fully on a later Sunday even ing. Suffice 1t to say now that by the use of dlvinely appointed means and through the great army of Christian physicians and surgeons and nurses In countless sick rooms and in multiplied hospitals which the Christly benefi- cence of Catholic and Protestant be- levers is supporting in Christian lands and in the foreign mission fields of the earth, works of healing are being wrought beside which the cures of Christian Science are inconsiderable. And these cures are being wrought by principles which while they welcome as an ally the truth in Christian Science, absolutely controvert the Hindu doc- Urine of the body as an illusion.
 Indeed the cures wrought by another extreme and rather one-sided system of healing g-osteopathy-a just as re- markab ble and unmistakable and the os- teopath would probably say just as numerous, as those resulting from Ed dyism and yet these are effected by a theory and practice diametrIeany op- posed to Mrs. Eddy's metaphysics. A young woman who was member of my church in Middletown called upon us last week and to our astonishment she appeared to be well woman. For years she had suffered from spinal trouble and supposed heart disease which from time to time prostrated her to, the verge of syncope. She suffered almost incessant headache and her right arm was so numb that she could continue only intermittently her work in the rubber shop where she had been employed from glrlhood Last week she appeared with headache gone, spinal | trouble removed, numbness forgotten and heart perfectly normal What had happened? An osteopath, whom know
 we'll, had in fifteen minutes put back ir place rib which her constrained posi-.
 tion for years at the bench had dis. | placed and caused to interfere serious l ly with her heart action; the latter i'm.
 mediftely corrected itself as the heart
 itself was not diseased prolonged treatment of the spine had cured itE soreness and removed the headaches
 while the discontinuance of strong
 drug which had been used for years tt
 allay the pains in the head, resulted ir the entire disappearance of the dis.
 tressing numbness in the arm. Wha
 could an attempt to understand thai
 matter Is nothing have done for that poor girls displaced rib and constrlet. | ed heart? would suggest that Andrew
 Carnegie permit the use of the Peace
 Building at The Hague, when not oth.
 erwise engaged, for joint worlds con
 vention of osteopaths and Christian
 Scientists. Each has something that tht
 other needs and The Hague would bc
 the appropriate place for the pro
 ceedings that would follow.
 And now because my Christian Sci
 ence" friends have been so inpatien and itnportunate in demanding a dis
 cussion of the question of Mind Cure
 before I had come to 1t in my outlined
 plan, I have left but the scantiest ant
 most inadequate time for the grea
 theme announced for this evening. Le
 us glance briefly at some of it's phases l We suggested last Sunday evenin 1 three answers to the query Why n, real Christian should be a member 0
 the cult called Christian Science" 1 first, because Mrs Eddys teaehin;
 stuItifles the reason of her followers
 second, because Mrs. Eddy's exposi
 ton of the Bible is largely illegitimat
 and untrue; and third, because Mrs
 Eddy's teaching as to the nature 0
 God, the nature of Christ, the natur
 of man, the nature of sin and tn
 nature of salvation, is in vital parti