Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-08

cure the boil That is Mrs. Eddy's
way Now consider the biblical way.
In Isaiah we read tha Hezekiah MAS
sick with a boil. And what did Isaiah
do? He did not say. Nav, Hezekiah,
quit YOUR granting. YOU have no pain.
It's all in your mind" No, he took
a lump Of figs. which was the method
in those days Of Fastening n SWELL
ing. and laid it on the inflamed place,
and we are told thai Hezekiah turred
his face to the wall and prayed for
health. Now that rs the biblical way.
This Bible is a book of common sense.
II teaches the use of means. You ask,
Could not the great God, who gave
US these bodies, restore them Aes.
so He could also support these bodies
from day to day without putting us
to the trouble of eating and drinking.
But He wants us to till the soil and
raise the grain. He gives us the
rocks. but not the science OF geology.
He gives us the flowers, but not the
science OF botany. He clothes the
valleys with healing herbs. bat He
does not search them GU and extract
for us the medicine. IL He would do
for MS what we can doffor ourselves,
He would be putting a premium upon
l~aziness and robbing us of the grand
est incentive OF progress.
| There is another way in which
Christian Science is unbiblical. We
have no record that when Jesus heal
ed the sick He ever received a fee.
on page 500 Mrs. Eddy says, Chris
tan Science demonstrates hat the
patient who pays for being healed Is
more apt 10 than he who
withholds an equivalent" She be-
lieves in the materially Of the al
mighty dollar, as her great fortune
viii testify.
Just n more indictment. Chris
tian Science calling itself scientific,
arrays itself against discovery In
science and in the medical profession.
1t condemns, for example, vaccination,
which. since its discovery, has saved
thousands and perhaps millions of
lives. There was "A time when small
box decimated whole communities.
Those who escaped death were often
left for life with ugly scars. This
dread disease has practically been
conquered.
We are now discussing in our city.
for the sake IF better health. the
necessity of better sewerage. What
would Mrs. Eddy have to say on this
question? Let me read. Speaking on
hygiene, on page 391. she says, The
laws Of hygiene are more honored in
the breach than in the Observance.
The less we knoW about hygiene the
less disposed we are TO sickness.
only Il few pages back she declares
there is no sickness. and now she adj
vo,atag the ignorance of hygiene as a
preventive of sickness. My friends,
what would become Of this world If
such a belief were given a very wide
circulation How long would it take
to depopulate the world? There Is
a story Of q German who has a me-
nagerie in which he has a cage with
"a lion. a tiger. a wolf and "A lamb,
which he has entitled The Happy
Family" on being asked how long
the animals had been together. he
said, About ten months, but the lamb
has had to be renewed occasionally"
with Mrs. Eddy's system Of science
our population would need renewing
occasionally.
What. then. is Christian Science? II
is nothing more than mental sugges-
ton or therapeutics. All that Is good
in it is as Did as the medical science.
The body is in closest sympathy with
the mind. The sounding hoard of the
violin is not more responsive to the
slightest tromor Of the string than Is
the body to the mind. on this fact is
bullt the supcrstructure falsely called
Christian Science.
I have tried to he fair. | have not
spoken harshly. I have not spoken as
! might have done, of little children
dying from neglect Of medical treat
I believe / have spoken the
\ system which boasts of
having. within the last few years,
built a thousand churches and won,
mostly from other churches, a million
mcmbcrs. ought not 90 be ignored.
The uniformed ought To be warned
against IT. The sick, like the drown
ing man, viii grasp at a straw. Al
though Christian Science may seem
for a time TO be the panacea for their
MS. I believe it will ultimately deceive
them. rob them Of their Christian
faith and land them in despair. For.
although it makes large promises. 1t
Is false 10 its name ana to it, claim
It never can make good.
stimulation without Irritation.
That is the watchword. That T. what
prino Laxative Fruit syrup does Cleanscs
aud stimulates the bowels without irritation
In any form. j. II. O'Rieily co. n