Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-02
THE STORY
OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
How the Most Wonderful Woman of Modern Times Built
Up a New Cult.

of the hearts of those who were the
most anxious for it. With this mental
and physical depression. l ii:st visited
p =. Quinb.. and in less than n
week from that time l ascended by a
stairway ~ Isl steps TO the dome Of
the city han. and am improving al
in.nitura. To the most subtle reasoning
such d proof coupled. too. as it is.
with nun2berless similar ones. lemon
strates Ms power 10 heal.
Il can see. dimliy at first. the great
principle which underlies DR.. quinn
byis faith and works. and just in pro-
portion - my right perception OF the
truth l. my recosery. This truth. which
he oppose to tne error OF matter. and
placing pain where it never places it
changes The currents OF the system
20 their normal action. and the mech
anisin of the body goes on undisturbed.
That this is a science capable OF
demonstration comes clear TO the
minds of those patients who reason
truth. which he establishes in the pa
tieut. cures hin, lal,hough he may be
wholly unconscious thereof). and the
ood,. which is full OF light. is no long
er in disease
a little later Mrs. Patterson wrote.
this time in the Portland Advertiser:
p. p. Quimhy stands upon the plane
OF wisdom with his truth. Christ
healed the sick. but not by jugglery. or
with drugs. AS the former speaks as
man spake. and Mr.. Quimby
heals as never man healed since
Christ. is ne not identified with truth.
and is not his the Christ which is in
him? P. P. Quimby rolls away the
stone from the sspulchre of error. and
health is the resurrection
Are we. then. doing the lately de-
ceased lad, ar injustice when we say
that Mrs. Eddy played Shakespeare to
Phineas P. Quimby's Boccacio? WHY
idea and made of it a masterpiece. as
SO nan other great artists have done
before herr Even Quimby was not the
originator of these metaphysical ideas.
for they We're known in some form,
among the ancients. and in the orien-
tai philosophers. At any rate. in 1856
Mrs. Patterson. then of Lynn. Mass.
claimed 10 have had a wondrous vi
sion. which subsequent years of deep
seeking and finding. proved to be God
given by healing the lame and the
blind. and by raising the dying" Hav-
and his disciples wrought their mir
acles. Mrs. Patterson went into Sc
clusion. and at the end of foul years
in 1870. emerged with the complete
manuscript of her first volume. The
Science OF Man" with a chapter or
Science and Health" the %forerunne,
of the present Science and Health
with Key TO the Scriptures
The leading %features of her doctrine
We're that Everything Is Mind thai
there is but one mind, which is God
and that Man Is the Idea of God
our bodies. and the things around us
houses and furniture, trees, rocks anG
earth-all things, in fact, composed o.
matter-do not really exist, but arr
only the ideas of mind, something like
the things of a dream. Matter being
unreal cannot feel or know anything
and hence cannot be sick, and mind
being divine. is perfect. and henc,
cannot be sick either. Therefore. there
can be no sickness in anything. anC
what we call sickness is only a belle.
not q belief of the one divine mind
but d belief of what the prophecies OF
the new faith called Mortal Mind
which is itself unreal. Hence. when thu
belief is DESTROYED, the disease is de.
stroyed also.
Just as an inmate of an insane asy.
luTn is afflicted with the delusion tina,
he is made of glass and liable to b,
broken so mankind is afflicted Will
the delusion that it could suffer pair
and be diseased. Such is the centra
doctrine upon which Christian Scienc.
was founded doctrine which is in
evitably at war with civilization bull
up by people who believe in the exist
ence of sickness. pain and materia
things.
According to this revolutionar,
prophetess-the only woman, by tn.
way. v known to have founded &
new religion-she deemed her theory
fully verified because. proceeding il
accordance with it. she had prevented
disease. preserved n restored health
healed chronic as we'll as acute all.
ments in their severest forms. elon.
gated shortened limbs. relaxed rigid
muscles. restored decaying bones t.
healthy condition, brought back the
lost substances OF the lungs and caused
them to resume their proper func.
TONS" Sin was also declared to b.
an error Of a similar nature will
disease. yielding to similar treatments
Healing sickness and reforming thu
sinner are n and the same thing IL
Christian Scierce."
In 1877, ha.:ng divorced DIR. Patter.
son. her securG husband, the leade,
of the cult witch was destined to in.
wade all the nations OF the earth AGAR
married. this time DR.. Asa Gilber
Eddy. the first man In the world t
announce himself as a Christian
Scientists. and the organizer of tn,
: First Christian Science Sunday school