Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-20
Where Christian Science Fails



"o understand the failures Of
Christian Science we must UNDER
stand the state Of her mind.
Spirit she says. ls an, matter Is
nothing. Diseases are an error lnu-
zion. or dream OF mortal mind, they
are real ION our mortal plane but
they are not really real. they are not
really there. once we are sure that
thcv are not really there they cease TO
b. there.
II follows that she denies the reaiitr
o. am germs and of al Internal para
sites Mortal mind imagincs that mos
uuitocs tsetsc flies. neas, and oysters
are able % convey TO man the germs
which in him are malaria, yellow rover,
sleeping sickness, plague, ana typhoid
fever. Christian Science says that the
symptoms OF these diseases are the
work Of mortal mind; we believe that
we are il. and we are healed by con-
vincing ourselves that the whole thing
Is an Illusion
Eut what about the diseases Of AMI
mails? what OF the millions and mill
lions OF worms. fishes. reptiles, birds.
mammals dying ~ this or that diseasel
Is tubercle In a monkeys lungs an
error Of mortal mind or ~ monkey
mind? Is lOckpaw ian "a horse an error
OF equine mind2 or rs the error in us2
In that case the horse is under no illu-
sion. Therefore It is not suffering But
here Il Is dead Well says Christian
Science. death Itself is an illusion. But
the horse was not a Christian Scicntis-;
81 had no opinion one way or the Other
touching the reality of death. There
fore, is IL. or is IL not. really deads
Was Il ia real pain. in real commissions
Was that pain a dream In us or in IL:
~ the error was in US. why did Chris
tian Science give absent treatment"
10 Mr. Holland Iubbert's broken-wind-
cd marc2 Why did she give IL, all the
way from New York. 10 O pet dog %
Bayrouth N the dogs Illness was an ia
the owners mind and none Ia the dogs
mind? m pain, disease, ana death.
rondng an creation. are an Illusion or
human minds. then no animal Us really
in pain, disease. or dead. But what
OF the millions OF millions OF animals
that persisted before mortal mind APP
peared ON this earth? on the other
hand. if the pain. disease. and death
of animals are not In ms. but In the ami
mails. whore they certainly seem 70 be,
then they must be really real. for IL
is Impossible that canine mind should
share the high Illusions Of human mind.
An those diseases. therefore. which are
ISLANDERS. anthrax, lockiaw. tubercle,
etc.-must be accounted as real Ia the
animals but not In US.
FORGETTING THE ANIMAL
WORLD.
The fact Is that Christian Science
eft out Of her universe all creatures ex-
'ept as. She was so busy making a |
rod of man that she forgot the animals. |
And now II Won ask her "A bout the 1
lain. disease. and death Of these fell |
ow-creature OF ours, she says, Ami |
nails. like human beings, are suffering /
rom the belief IN the power OF evil j
when constitutes mortal mind and 4
an he. end are being. cured in the i
iane way" In plain words. the dis
asses OF animals are an illusion in US.
,he fOrgcts that the brute creation was
lere suffering and dying. for countless
yes before the creation OF man. She
ticks 10 Il that rats die Of plague and /
pigs Of phthisis because we
ream OF the germs OF these diseases.
As she thinks of animals. so she
links Of babies over babies, at their /
firth. or soon after, she loves 10 voice
he truth" or 20 enjoy a pleasing dem
and some OF her results
n this line might well engage the at
entiOn OF the society for the prevention
II cruelty to children.
She DEFENDS her failures by this |
argument. that mistakes, failures, and |
disasters occur in medical and surgical |
Practise. and she says that some sur /
yeons are too fond OF operating. This I
argument neither shortens the list OF |
hose who die Of Christian Science nor /
llters the fact that she sits. day after /
lay. by cases OF diphtheria. hemorr-
lage. cancer, strangulated hernia, in /