The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-15

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tics We undertake to say that con-
sensus of human intelligence will bear
MS out in the declaration that the
only principle within the reach OF
Mrs. Eddy or any Eddyite on earth
is that of. mental therapeutics and
that has been known and used by
physicians for more than one hun
dred years. There are writings In
existence one hundred years old in
which the theory Of mental influence
and healing is mooted. Mrs. Eddy
obtained her knowledge of 1t of DR..
Qulmby as has been demonstrated
by her own letters and writings as
published in that most remarkable
work, "Milmine's History of Chris
tian Science" published in McClure's
Magazine. Anybody who has been
behind the scenes with Georgine Mil
mine and has seen all the drag ropes
and tackle whereby Mrs. Eddy has
built up her cult will be thoroughly
disenchanted as to it.
one reason for refusing to accept
the miraculous theory of Mrs. Eddy's
healing system is there is no occa-
sion for it. 1t is principle of all
schools of philosophy to refer moth
ing for solution to the miraculous and
superhuman which can be explained
by the operation OF natural law. Now
this is exactly in point here. Mrs.
Eddy, having failed to effect any de.
monstrabe miraculous or superhuman
results, is easily relegated to the cat
egory of the natural. Her cures are
simply the operations OF natural law
that Of suggestion and mental ther-
apeutics-of the influence of the mind
over matter and her success in de-
yeloping what was first simple heal
ing into cult has been due to her
strong executive qualities, her exceed
ing craftiness and her cold-blooded
disposition that would sacrifice any
thing to her ambition. Since Mrs.
Eddy's remarkable life and work has
been revealed to the world she will
be no longer able to hypnotic many
people by her assumption of miracu-
lous power and by her oracular ut
terances of half truths, If not OF
full-fedged sophistries.
Mrs. Eddy in her Science and
Health" flouts hygene, psychology,
material medical and natural science
and declares that nearly all literature
is pernicious and all that people
need in the way of literature, scienti-
fic instruction and moral guidance is
her books. But even her books would
not he possible were IL not for the
marvellous accomplishments of scien-
tific intelligence. Nor would the COM
forts of the houses in which she lives
or the trains on which she rides or
the ships on which she sends out her
missionaries. Mrs. Eddys ideas would
undermine all progress and relegate
civilization TO barbaHsm. Whenever
you get up this cult against tangl-
BILE proposition its sophistries become
evident. For instance get up a seri-
Gus case of surgery or appendicitis
or typhoid fever and the Eddyites
either send for a physician or let
their patient die. But why not surg
cry? Christ cured the withered
hand, healed the lepers and brought
to life the dead. II Mrs. Eddy and
her disciples have discovered miracu-
lous healing why is 1t that they don't
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they are cut OFF? Why not make whole
withered hand or palsied body?
Why not bring the dead to life?
III Mrs. Eddy and Mr.. Herring can
heal the diseased, restore the blind
their sight, make the deaf to hear,
the dump TO speak and the lame to
walk and can raise the dead also but
refuse to do so what kind of mon
sters must they be? All no they
are not monsters? They are doing
their best. They can't cure deadly
feyers;' consumption, Bright's dis
ease, meningitis; they can't restore
mans arm or Les which has been
cut of; they cant heal a palsied arm
or leper, or raise the dead or per-
form any kind OF a miracle. All they
can do is to treat mental diseases,
hysteria, imaginary troubles and those
disorders which result from the