The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-23
Joseph Hall Presents Long Ar gument Against Principles
 of Christian Science.
ATTACKS MRS. EDDY'S LOGIC
Declares We Trade Dollars nnd Sense for Nonscnse---H Is Philosophy
 Contrary tn All Physics,
Now Haven. Ct. Nov U. 1aoa-

0t the nlNerse--C hrlStlall HClence.
 If it were either Christian or scen- ti6c we could respect it. I need no further evidence than the speech of one of It's ablest orators as reported in your issue of October 29, Com mon sense vcriGcs these charges but no verineation of anything is possible to those who confessedly deny the reality of the very senses by which we test reality, both ours and their own and then rule out of court the only possible witnesses that can give any evidence in the case pro or con.
 Fine feathers make fine birds and fine words make fine speeches whcth- CT they have any intrinsic value or not and l can only characterize Mrs. Minis rhetorical oraton as an artistic portrayal of fair-fase face! Mrs Mims is an expert verbal decorator and, from beginning to end, her ora ton is the decoration of grave with 1 flowers of spcech--' 'fadeless roses, deathless stars"--a gilded sepuchre, fair and beautiful--ful of dead mems bones.
 You must pardon me; did Eddyism not misrepresent the God 1t pretends to worship, the Christ it claims to love, the Bible 1t swears to believe, and, did it not repudiate every test and every criterion of truth and righteousness, we could take it ser iouslv and treat 1t with respect as one of the many noble but mistaken cf- forts of honest hearts but deluded brains to find the way of life, rugged or smooth, where Faith, Hope and Charity gently lead the weary soul from the sorrows of earth to the joys of heaven But duty forhids the charity that love would willingly cX- tend to returning prodisals and hrok en hearted Magdalrues. for this modern Diana steps forward not as a publican or sinner with a petition to the throne of lnfinltc mercy but de- nying the personality of the God who gave her personality; denying the reality of the sorrows and cares the blood and tears and all tho cxcruciat- ins aGonies of the CrucitiXion of tho Christ whom she prctends to love-. So did Judas That Is a charitable comparison, for Judas betrayed Christ while alive and able to defend him self, but this woman, who seems from the facts in evidence, to have a pc cunar penchant for pillEing the brains If the dead. betrays Jesus two thousand years after His burial. and she sweeps from the sacred altar of that Christ the rad memorials of the love he sealed with hig hearts blood upon that altar
 Now for Mrs. Mms This lady, without arms logs or senses If her metaphysics be true comes from the Fairyland of Divine Metaphysics, where there Is no land or physics! | More wonderful @ill. sho comes to | demonstrate to our scnsos hy her own senses that neither she or Te have any scnses Now the only evidence that know of that fact ls. that if we l had any sense We would not spend ! millions of dollars for such papnbl | sickcning noneenso Let one ask
 Why these binding appeals from an invisible spirit from an invisible world to ears of genuine flesh and blood for genuine dollars and cents This spcll-hindinR orator and dele gated special ploadcr comes to us poor simplctons in more questionable shape than FIamlet's visitor from the
 land Of tormcuting flames But that famous ghost could stand any test from the growing of rooster to the shot of 2 gun. but think the shot of a gun would soon settle two cardin ali postuates in the metaphysical ghost of Eddyism--GD There is nc natter" co, "There Is no death This Eddy ghost is blood relative o the ghost caught in the hcncoop witt chicken in his mouth and anotho, under each arm. The Eddy chicker came from the honcoop of poor olC
 Dr Quimby and as sooh as Inc wa
 dead his grateful patient and faithfu
 people baptized hat chicken in he
 own name and that wonderful chickeI
 has been cacklinG Christian Scienc,
 anl laying golden eggs cvor since
 Whether Fddyism hc negation Q
 physical sense or not, if Is certainly
 negatiOn of moral sense when seen II the shadow of Quimby'e grave shall keep the data of that too, in m,
 reserve forces,
 You see we are logically driven tt the conclusion that Eddyism is sense , less in any sonse, physical metaphysi cal or ethical, and Christian Science it no senae except as 9 libel on common : sense. To purloiu the genius of he
 best friends and hnncfactor and ther dsparaEe him in his cold grave as z mesmcrist and a quack in order tC conhscate iho reward due to his urre
 munerated service and the glory dut to his memory is not Christian Sci ence Do you wonder that thus shr rules all other sects, all other creeds art science, our very senses and tht whole fabric of nature out of cour' as witnesses
 may be accused of 3 lack of Chris tian charity in my criticism but 2 charity that sacrifices justices to in
 justice is not charity but the very essence of crime. It is perfectly nat ural that within this narrow span O life with its limited distorted ethica vision and barely beyond an embryon
 iC stage of moral evolution we should oftmes faltor between love and duty Even the mighty Caesar staggered or the bank of that Rubicon that chal
 lenges the conscience of the braves and the best of men, But Christ wa , braver than q thousand Caesars whel he branded the leaders of the churcl , as hypocritcs and yIpers; branded Herod as foe and set Caesar and hi . mighty legions at defiance to do tn . will of God. He who said "Blesset f,,1 |. a..,