The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-10-28


wrong when they thought the world
was flat. forming concepts. that the
senses afterwards disproved.
Our Christian Science friend says:
Christian Science teaches no such
silly doctrine as that sickness and
pain can be destroyed by simply
denying It OF thinking II is unreal"
No, certainly not, It just teaches
that the material world. all the ma
terial objects we seem to see around
us and which seem TO be the only
lreal things we have. are not real
things at all but are nothing more
than concepts of the human under
standing. They are what our carnal
minds give us, they are our opinions
of real things"
once we thought the world was
fiat says our Christian Science
friend" but that does not make il
flat although it certainly looks flat
20 us" Here is a case he has cited.
which proves the point against our
friend.
Even when people thought the
world was flat, as they looked out to
sea II seemed as though the sea and
sky met at a distant line. and that
line they peopled with all the Won
ders of their Imagination. Their
mortal eyes-their perceptiye
faculty-which never deceive us.
were trying to tell them the world
was round; but they formed a wrong
lconception-which is just another
term for idea. Afterwards the senses
proved to us that the world was
round; and still as we look out TO
sea, II seems that the sea and sky
meet at distance line. but our new
conception II that the earth Is
round and the line OF the horizon Is
where the sea curves out OF sight
and beyond we are looking straight
into the same blue expanse We look
into overhead.
Now. the idea Of Christian Science
Is a concept; the result of a mental
process, II YOU please, as contra
distinguished from a percept. which
comes through the senses. The per.
|cepts, the evidences Of the senses.
contradict the concept OF Christian
Science: but like the man. who. in
spite Of that line where the sea and
SKY seemed TO meet, insisted that
the world was flat; the Christian
Scientist. who has bad case in court
with the weight OF the evidence
against him. is trying to lmpeseh the
testimony OF the senses.
The Christian SCIENTIST doesn't be-
lieve the world is round: he just be-
lieves lit is not a real thing at all.
nothing more than a concept OF the
human understanding" and this
concept that the world Is round Is
gained through other concepts. rein
forced by per captions Now the
came faculties used through a glass.
also the product OF perception. and
conception. discovered germs which
cause these "copcepts OF disease. " and
germs apparently can be cultivated
and apparently there IL an agent IN
the human blood. which fights these
germs: and somehow we've got
more faith In microscope than we
have in Mrs. Eddy's book: because
We remember that the same effective
cooperation OF perception and con |
ception. which produced the type
and the ink and the paper that go
into composing Science and Health" /
and the round-appsrently so-dol- .
lars the book costs: also were eflec- /
tive In producing the microscope
through which We see the germs.
In other words. II our Christian
Science friend won't believe there
are germs. which can be seen
glass with the eve. / re.
fuse TO believe that Mrs. Eddy ever
wrote a book called Science and
Health" which has to be seen with b,
he same eye: because my Christian
Science friend says that my eve Is
deceived by concepts of my carnal /
mind. There is no germ under the
glass; ergo there is no printing in
Mrs. Eddy's book what? 4
would not wholly d.scred.t
Christian Science. ! am one that
kinks Providence sent all things for
/ useful purpose. and as far as Chris
lap Science has been one OF those
.gencles that has worked against
uttlng and slashing people NJ. and
'oisoning them with drugs. why IT,
I'M much Obliged to Christian
science. But II lays too much stress
N its healing ability. II Is easy
nough to say John Jones had
ANGER. and. behold, he is well,"
First prove that John Jones had a
ANGER. ] will not take the dag
Iosls of some Doctor, who gave him
p before Christian Science cured
i'm; because even a Christian
scientist will admit that doctors
make mistake.
Once upon time people had faith
I "yarb tea'-the old woman's
emedy Peaple drank the docoction
nd got we'll Within the memory
+ folks. who call themselves young
)day. doctors prescribed great guam
ties Of drugs; people imbibed them
nd got well. Now they have dis
)vered germs: that these germs get
ITO the blood. that the white cor
uscles attach them and nature pro-
noes a toxic condition of the blood