The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-29

read backwards. Passing over the
absurdity of attempting to prove a
proposition in philosophy by the
mathematical process of inversion, it
is plainly seen that there is not bit
OF inductive reasoning used, nor one
law of science regarded.
However, Mrs. Eddy's logical trouble
did not begin until she tried to apply
her principles to the everyday expe-
riences of the nineteenth century,
then came the thousands of contradic-
tions that fill the book and make it
monumental hodge-podge of absurdi-
ties" She undertook to neal the sick
when there could be 10 sick to heai
even as a sense phenomenon" as
Mr. Smith calls it, for God being all,
lie would not be sick. There can be
no sin, as God is Good and God is all,
and this is perhaps the thing that
makes Eddyism if in any degree lived
out, most dangerous.
The sum total of inductive reason
ing by Mrs. Eddy is, that here theo-
ries are demonstrated by everyday
facts. the. facts that people who be-
lieve in her theories are healed-'By
their fruits We shall know them" SO
the American savage, whose theory is
i that the patient Is beset by devils
and drives them away by awful
noises, or the Voodoo doctor, who
simply attaches a fetish to his patient,
no doubt regards his cures as proof
of the correctness of his theory, and
the vast number of their cures cannot
be doubted, and so the Eddyite must
admit that their theories are correct,
for by their fruits we shall know
them" So the fact of healing is the
y only fact adduced by Mrs. Eddy to
| prove that there is nothing to heal.
And although a christian Scientist"
f would no doubt vehemently deny that
! he ever did any healing under the
, same law that pervades fetichism,
Z hypnotism, mesmerism or any other
/ ism" under which mental healing
has masqueraded since the dawn of
4 man. it is so demonstrate that it is
/ So and the very fact that, as Mr.
UTI,rf-ti,v CafAnAfc+,'
t have been particularly successful with
children would only tend to bear this
out
t Bishop Restarick, of course, admit,
/ ted the underlying principle of men.
t tai healing-at which Mrs Eddy was
S no doubt blindly groping-but the OBJ.
t .ject of his sermon was to point out
the danger of the RUTHLESS and dan
h gerous theories with which this i'm.
It portant and scientific fact is sur.
= rounded in Christian Science, making
n ii so dangerous for people, and often
It the means of possessing a well body
# at the expense of the soul. For Eddy
ism denies the fundamental truth OF
e the gospel-that Christ died to take
It away the sin of the world-and God
5 being all, there can be no such thing
+ as sin.
t 1t is just this matter of sin fol
J. which we should be always on the
It lookout in new religions, for often
d their theories on this matter make
II them dangerous to that civilization
made possible only through the Chris
u tian idea of sin and righteousness
u "TheOsophy would say to a sinner
, Poor man, he can't help it; it was
d thus foreordained at this stage of his
. incarnation" Some of the Indian
L philosophers would have us believe
that sin could be washed away by
simply bathing in the Holy Gauges
!, And the Hindu, together with the
- Eddyite, if he were in the least log
ical would say, "All is God, God is
Good, l cannot sim" And just these
) differences have made India a mora
desert, and but for England land
Of total degeneration. On the Other
hand, it is the teaching of Judaism
on this subject of sin, and the fulfil
3 ment of Judaism in the Christian
q religion which have brought the
r Christian nations to the fore ant
p made them the leaders that they are
= today.
q To sum up--the object of this let
=. ter is to show that the benefit to b,
II derived from Christian Science II
purely metaphysical; that the cura
+. tive force does not lie in the anti
" Christian, anti-scientific principles o
a Eddyism, but that the real principles
a are in this case the dangerous agent
IS used for a good purpose, as morphin,
v used at first to take away pain is
n dangerous agent, and may very easil,
ho ,,cod to-