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

/ notice that you give very full
account of the lecture OF one Prof
H. s. Herring on Christian Science
or rather Eddyism for l can find
nothing Christian nor scientific in
this address. However one should
be charmed with the enthusiasm, not
to say exuberance, of your reporter
or city editor who characterizes said
address as clear and concise. But
after having read this address and
found nothing either clear" or "con.
cise," in it. nothing even within a
hundred yards of being understand
able, it would seem either your roper
torial force is misinformed or that
they did not report what this Prof
Herring said.
After wading through considerable
of his own jargon, and, also, an ad-
ditional amount quoted from Mrs.
Mary Baker Grover Patterson Eddys
rhodomontade, one wonders what is
the matter with Mr.. Herrings block"
There is nothing new in that address
that is important and nothing i'm
portant that is true and nothing true
that is new. In fact there is nothing
OF it except a few export state
ments. No effort is made to prove
anything but we are asked to give
credence to a few bald, unscientific
and absurd assumptions of this Mr..
Herring backed up by quotations of
equally unscientific and murky state
ments from Mrs. Eddy's great storage
battery of jargon. And this stuff
is considered clear and concise" by
some one about the Mirror Office.
Well, let me suggest that nothing
new that Mr.. Herring puts forth is
within a hundred miles of being
clear, concise" or Ineligible. And
there is a reason for it. Mr.. Her.
ring nor any of these lecturers, sent
out by the famous Eddy bureau. at
Boston, care to be too concise. They
don't care to rule up against the
sharp edges of intelligent criticism
Of the stuff they try to difiuse
through society. Hence, they deal
In platitudes and glittering generali-
ties and hints and suggestions. But
they don't like to come down the tree
and face the music. The reason is
their cult is built on the shifting
sands Of false mental philosophy
and OF a self-evident fallacy.
Mrs. Eddy wanted something diff
ferent, IL not new, hence she adopted
the old mental philosophy of ideal
sm held by some writer's in the 18th
and 18th centuries but thoroughly ex-
Dloded by Drs Reid and Kant and
Sir William Hamilton. The reason
Ing OF such psychologists as Descar-
les, Nalebranch, Leibuitz, Berkley,
Hume, Fichte, Hagel and even John
Locke was that the mind is con-
'cious only OF its own ideas, that
i takes cognizance only of itself and
It's own states and is incapable of
anything of the external
world. Hence If there is anything
but mind that organ can have no
OF 1t and If man has
pain in his arm or his lungs there
S no way he could know it or have
my concept OF it. But common sense
'allied to the cause OF mental science
Ind drove out that absurdity taking
he ground that in perception the
mind takes direct cognizance OF ex-
ernal objects and through the senses
II pleasure, pain, joy or sorrow. II
his Mr. Herring doesn't believe in
he realistic psychology let him bump
lis absurd head against a stone wall
hen he will know there is some
hing in the world besides mortal
mind" But Mrs. Eddy wanted
different from the com
nonsense psychology OF mankind,
herefore she revamped this old
md exploded idealism. added a few
words and phrases with unintelligible
md impossible meanings to it, bor-
owed DIR. Quimby's notions of men
al therapeutics ana with this com
'osite started out TO catch suckers
Ter scheme was to get rid of pain
" abolishing the matter which was
he seat OF pain. II the body is the
eat OF pain then abolish the body.
I you have sore hand or an affect