El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-05

your child toGchool you want a prop
erly trained teacher, and when you or
der new gown you want the work
done by a skilled filter and dreSsmak-
err but when it comes to the treatment
of your suffering and diseased body,
some of you are satisfied with the ser
vices of an inexperienced, unframed,
unqualified practitioner.
Christian Science Claims Too Much.
Christian Science claims to have
cured pneumonia, scarlet fever and
smallpox. Perhaps the fact is not gem
orally known, but it is a fact never
theless, that so percent of what are
known as acute diseases pneumonia,
scarlet fever, smallpox, etc) are self
limited and tend to recovery That
means that so percent Of those who
are the victims Of these diseases would
recover without any special treatment.
How, then, can the Christian Science
healer claim credit for curing a mar
Of pneumonia when We know by actual
statistics that so percent of such cases
tend to recovery?
Fundamental Propositions.
The following are a few Of the fun
damental propositions Of Christian Sci
ence:
l. Everything is mind, and in all
the universe there is but one mind,
which is God (see Science and Health,
page -.
2 Since all is mind. matter is not;
there is no such thing as matter. MAT
ing but a mortal belief, wholly made
quate TO affect man through its sup
posed organic action or existence. Sci
erce and Health, page 1872
GAll is mind, there is no matter page
461)l
Mortal body and material man are
delusions which spiritual understand
ing and science destroy IS. and H.
page 1911 That is, there is no such
thing as matter; trees, stars and stone
walls have no actual existence, but are
simply ideas of mind. illusions which
float before the thought, and nothing
more.
8. Sickness is only an error of NOR
tai mind. ISickness is an illusion to
be annihilated by mind IS. and H.,
page 1891 MAN is never sick; for
mind is not sick and matter cannot be
IS. and H, page 1921 That is to say,
sickness is only a belief; believe you
are sick, and you are sick, believe you
you have one foot in the grave. A man
is sick, lame, deformed, cross-eyed,
consumptive or ba1dheaded just be-
cause he thinks so.
f. The way to get rid of pain, dis
ease, suffering and sin, is to destroy
the belief in these unrealities.
Favorite Text With Scientists.
Mrs. Eddy and her disciples are very
much given to quoting the instructions
which Christ gave his disciples: LAS
We go, preach, saying, the Kingdom of
Heaven is at hand. Heal the sick
cleanse the lepers, raise the dead"
Christian Scientists claim that mas
much as Christ gave this command,
there can be no valid reason for believ-
ing that it cannot be fulfilled by his
disciples of the twentieth century as
well as by those of his own day Ny
answer is that the peculiar power of
working miracles was limited to Apos-
tOlic days. The very fact that no such
miracles of healing as those wrought
by Christ and his Immediate disciples
have been wrought since that time is
che proof that the peculiar power was
limited to that period. The cures eff
fected in subsequent ages, whether by
religious relics, charmed amuletS in
dian medicine men or by Joanna South
coat, P. P. Quimby, Mary Eddy or John
Dowie, can be explained by the law of
suggestion, and are utterly lacking in
the miraculous element so conspicuous
in the healing of Apostolic times. And
IL lHiS ScIASCllOA, II may De stated,
that the power of working miracles
-Was given for a special object, which
was to prove the divine origin of the
gospel Later, when the kingdom had
been well established, and other and
greater proofs came in. such as the
moral and spiritual transformations
wrought by the gospel, the age of mir
acles was left behind. Christian Sci
entists show the weakness of their
argument by usually leaving out the
phrase raise the dead which is in
cluded in the instructions which Christ
gave his disciples. If they have reintro-
duced the healing Of Apostolic times.