Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-03-15
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ence cult mentally incapacitated the
religions OF mental healing seem Just
now TO have fallen on evil times. The
cry OF ancient days. physician heal
thyseli." goes up from the skeptic.
and the popular faith in divine be-
nefcenee is given fresh wrench all
round. But faith in good dies hard.
"Hope springs immortal in the hui
man breast" and we lose faith in one
Interpretation OF the scheme OF things
only 20 grasp az another. Some new
personality with sublime confidence
Ia the Importance OF the human atom
IN general, and himself or herself in
particular. will rise mp and practice
on our human creduli,y ere many
moons.
have not been able to see just
what object MeClure's Magazine had
In view in exploiting the Rev. Mary
I, was TO show the Christian Science
following that their idol was made OF
mud. Certainly il was only in this
sense that the write-up they have CIV
en- her could como under the muck
raking head. II is true that in the
inner circles of the cult Mrs. Eddy is
god. and her book is fetish FAR eS-
eeeding the modern worship OF any
other so-eaiied sacred literature
Those who would be healed arc re-
quired to read the hook. Three dol
lars \ copy. cash in advance. They
arc not asked to understand II. There
is nothing about IL that is understand
able TO the rational mind. II is sim
ply hodge-podge OF religious vap-
orings. \ throwing together OF alb
sirac, terms and theological phrases
The bearing OF one sentence upon
another is only remotely evident
And set. wha; OF ,hati Faith comes
by hearing. and no, by understand
ing. and he who would become a be-
lever must accept the parable OF the
vacuum; he mast exhaust the mental
iiy Of his brain cells and sit in medi
tatlve yaeni,y until some wandering
nightmare come to take possession.
/, may be that Meclurc's Magazine
hoped TO dispci this Illusion OF the
Christian Science following. bu, ii
so they undertook large contract.
does n dollar bottle OF proprietary
medicine when offered n, so cents.
There are people who will hun, their
anatomy over TO sec II they haven't
go, something that aaif-pricc quack
medicine is advertised to cure. I, is
sale TO say that Christian Scientists
are chiefly cured OF things they have
MT got. The power OF mental sug-
ges,ion Is enormous. Perhaps Shakes
pcarc should be taken literally when
he says I'VE are such stuff as dreams
arc made Of" Perhaps IL is true that
VIC never have anything except as We
think VIC have IL And yet our Chris
,ian Science friends never apply their
theory 10 4 silver dollar. or 4 legal
tender note. II only applies to mat
tar in the less sordid forms. Mrs.
Eddy's book costs So. appropriately
bound in flexible leather. and while
the Healer has no printed schedule OF
prices, she makes you understand that
she isn't in the business strictly for
her health. whatever MAJ be tho CT
feet upon yours. II Is this end of the
threatens it, downfall. Somebody
has got envioas of the dollars it
draws.
1t doesn't cos, any more to get
cured by Christian Science than i,
does by Peruna or Duffy's Malt
Wh;skcy. and it doesn't kill any more
people. Why we should be jealous of
Mrs. Ediy's success, or envious OF
her money-makins | cam, see. She
isn't the only fake in the market
place. After all it is impossible to
tell just how much physiological cf
feet and how much OF suggestion
there is in a given dose of any mcdi-
cine. | know n medical man who
rarely fails TO tell a patient what he
expects n certain bottle of medicine
to do for him. And he says it nearly
always does it. 1t may not be ncccs.
sary' to back up a liberal dose OF
eroton oil with mental suggestion.
but one of the beauties of Christian
Science is that less OF, has to be ta-
ken. Science has pretty thoroughly
demonstrated the power OF mind over
matter. Perhaps its only limitations
on the one hand or our faith on the
other. The distinctive power OF Je-
sus of Nazareth was probably his
sublime faith il the efficacy of what
he thought. The followers of Mrs.
Eddy are working along the same
lines. Like all the rest of us, they
fail whenever, as Doolcy puts it, they
"let go of the rope"
But this law suit, brought to show
that Mrs. Eddy is non compos men,
tbs, impresscs me with the thought
of what an intangible thing our boast
ed American liberty is. Here we have
the very law that was enacted to keep
sane people from being unlawfully
shut UP in madhouse, invoked to
pull Mrs. Eddy from her self-chosen
seclusion and parade her before the
eyes of the profane multitude. In
India they keep an aged and infrm
fakir behind a curtain and the faithful
are permitted to see only his pro-
truding toe. When he dies it is
easy to substitute another toe, and
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