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

reality and matter is unreal, if by that
you mean 1t has no permanent exist
ence. Huber Newton distinguishes
wisely between real and actual My
hand is not real in that ii is nOn-eter-
raj and subject to decay but il is
actual, l. e, it is actually here jointed
onto my wrist, but Mrs. Eddy says it
is actually nOn-existent. She would
make a notable advance toward reason
if she contented herself with saying
Mind has power to think matter
away but 10 deny the actual exist
ence of matter is the philosophy OF
fatuous fancy, and TO say in one breath
out of her own lungs that lungs which
do not exist have nothing TO do with
life and in another breath affirm the
lost substance of the lungs" TO have
ben Frequently restored by Christian
Science; to affirm repeatedly that dis
ease never existed and then to declare
that with a little salt and water she
cured a patient sinking in the last
stage of typhoid fever; TO declare that
fear never stifled being and its &C
ton and yet to speak elsewhere OF
fear creating the image of disease.
and proving her assertion by the case
of a man who died out of fear caused
by the false belief that The had occu-
pied a bed where a cholera patient
had diedS is too absurd TO call for any
comment. In an eastern city an old
Christian reader in a city drug store
said that mind is everything, matter
is nothing"
Believe Strongly.
Arsenic will not poison you il. you
only believe that it is wheat flour and
not arsenic. A young physician said.
TIL purchase the drug if you will lick
it down" After the challenge was
repeated a few times the Christian
Scientist was told to withdraw your
challenge or prove your theory" The
old man took the arsenic: after look
irg at il a while, he haid. This is
wheat flour il is not arsenic. Now
believe it," He repeated. it a few
times, then swallowed the drug and
died in 30 minutes 1t was not the
mind that killed him, but the matter.
Well, no matter. you cannot by new
false philosophy get rid of sin, sickness
and disease by denying their existence;
they are all here.
To demonstrate my charge Of false
philosophy against this wonder; this
marvel of science; this Mother Mary
Pastor Emeritus Baker-GlOver-Patte
son-Eddy- Frye-theSe are some few of
her names. by marriage and asSocia-
tion-let us look at some of her phil
osophy again
Food and Drink
She says thirst is only a thing of
imagination" Why does she drink?
She declares that food neither
strengthens nor weakens the body, but,
we have never heard of any one dis
pensing with its use. and indeed 'un-
til a more perfect day of understand
ing" this phenomenally minded wO-
man says il would be foolish TO stop
eating. For present convenience we
most heartily agree with this wise
conclusion. If we are rot dependent
upon the eye for sight and if the eye
is a ''delusion." and its disease a vain
ina gination," why do so many of the
believers wear spectacles? This ma
terial life she calls an illusion OF the
soul to sense" and of no advantage,
and yet if nine-tenths Of Christian
Science proselyteS are not made so by
the very hope of disease, cured and
consequent prolon cation of life. as it is
here and now, we have failed to inter-
pref the real cause of its popularity
and growth. One of its own professors
declares nine-tenthS of its converts
come out of the grave. Mrs. Eddy de-
clares seed unnecessary to the raising
of wheat and speaks of a time when
the farmer will raise his crops indie
pendent of the seasons, and even de-
clares that generation does not rest
on a sexual basis Such unwarranted
unintelligibly calls for no comment.
One-Sided Philosophy.
CHRISTIAN Science is nothing more
than sided philosophy carried out
to false and absurd conclusions, and
in the words of another Every bit
oe matter in the universe brands it as
untrue Every aching TOOTH every
case of disease carries with it this ut
ter unlack of proof. and every be-
reaved heart and every grave in the
great world of sorrows. which .is at
the same time little more than a vast
cemetery denOunces ii as~the most
baselesss of all unsubStantial asser-
ton So much as false philosophy and
science falsely sOcalled
Now what shall We say of il as a
religious system. From the stand
point of theology Mrs Eddy and all
her followers certainly must be very
poor theologians. If theology be the
doctrine of God, bible0logy be
the science and inspired of the
book. soterlOgy. the science of a
Savior on claiming Christ be true
doctrine Mrs. Eddy must be false.
Theology saws God is nv Father and