The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-13

brains enough of their own to build a |
pig stye. My critic says: THAT Mr. !
Hall is thoroughly unfamiliar with the
subject he attempts to criticize Is
markedly evident" Yet she doesn't |
to justify her charge, The charge |
may be true but in that case cannot
understand why she should be so anXi- |
Gus and take so much pains to rebut
my criticism. Is It my ignorance or
intelligence that gets on her nerves?
Then she says: 1T seems strange
that men otherwise intelligent and well
informed should make unqualified
statements concerning a subject that
they have neither studied nor practic-
ed" Yet, In that very sentence she
makes two unqualified statements
about person whom she never knew!
Not only unqualified but untrue, for |
have both studied and practlced 1t for
years, and | am Christian Scientist
myself But don't believe IN Chris
tan Science contradictions, inconslst-
encies, superstltions and crimes
The Eddy brand Of Christian Science
sets science at defiance and deprives
It's devotces In sickness and disease Of
the greatest blessing that science ever
conferred on suffering humanity. r.
have both graduated and postgraduate
ed on these subjects and carry two d.
plomas from two of the best colleges In
the country. and, IN 1890. was
prize essayist on this very subject
that according to her scientific lady
ship never studied or practlced.
More: | have Travelled and studied
in India, China Africa and Arabia as
we'll as Europe and America, yet |
don't know a people on earth that
haven't got their faith healers and
they all work their miracles without
a miracle at all The effects are nat
ural. the causes are natural and these
so-called miracles are common TO
heathens. pagans. Christians and athe-
lists. so that after an extended induc-
ton of these phenomena any logical
thinker would conclude that there IS
no divine agency or supernnturaism IN
any of them: and in most of them
there Is more evidence Of devilish in
genuity than divine wisdom.
All these mystic phenomena originate
in one scientific fact. the convertibillty
and reconvertibility of physical and
mental Impressions The mind can
both receive and return sense impress
eions through the duality Of the ncrv-
Gus system. In other words the oh
jective or external impressions that are
conveyed to the mind by the afferent
or sensuary nerves can be returned by
the mind through the efferent or motor
nerves.
I cannot claim space enough to an
alyze these facts or verify THE theory
but II is we'll known fact that
practical hypnotist can anlict man
with ten diseases In ton minutes and
cure every one Of them in n second by
mental suggestions The shortest cut
to any part of tho nervous system Is
through suggestion and II Is the short
est cut to a mans pocketbook or n
woman's affections. In the hands Of
virtue II is minister of grace but
in the hands of vice It IS a goblin.
"a man Is what he thinks and what
the mind imagines to be real, Is real to
the mind. IF man think evil he Is
evil and the sinner in thought Is the
sinner IN deed. That's why Christ lay
the axe to the root of all evil-the
thought of It.
Now; what object to Is not faith
healing or faith cures. That Is perfect
ly legitimate good and wise; but, 1t IS
not legitimate, good or wise to call It
divine or supernatural In order to turn
It into a fake religion and impose 1t
upon honest, supplemented souls In
order to prey upon their virtues by
: your vices. ! object to human agents
forging divine names TO make fraud a
success at the expense Of virtue.
object to a physical science being turn
ed into spiritual theology and artful
trlckery into a holy religion. | object
to the shameless libel upon the name Of
Christ that makes Him divine
sponsor Of a mercenary traffic in mir
acles that heathens, pagans and holy
takers have been performing on the
stage of fnaaticism all along loves
bleeding path Of martyrdom.
The Christian Science healer claims
to work his rlarves In the name OF
Christ but tire same wonder arise N
the names of Jupiter, Bob Ingersoll
witches and rotten bones To compare
. such stage performances with the
works of Christ degrades Him to the
n level of a charlatan and crowns His
|l sacred head with shame and infamy as
the founder and leader Of miracle
mongers and holy grafters! Have yot
!, no shame?
We don't object to the virtues o
7 Christian Science but its palpable vices
! We don't object to its sanity men ant
| women in their devotions to Christ am
! His missions but we do object to 1T
F, alse pretentlons and its usurpations o
! divine authority and the prerogative o
! God We don't object to the mer
( women and children 1t has blessed am
cured but the men, women and chill
y dren whom 1t has duped and slain /
the name Of science and religion! TIL
name Of Christian Science may be IN
scribed as the epltaph on many
pathetic grave stone that In sham
conceals the white ashes Of an limo
cent victim who would have been liy
ing to-day had not Christian Scienc
said to medical science stand back