The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-11-23

and a comparison OF IL with Mrs
Eddy's Christian Science proves thai
both are fundamentally the same
that Mrs. Eddy bed waen she says
her ideas game from God and that
her doctrine is a "science. falsely SC
| called"
/ Second let us consider Christian
Science from the viewpoint OF rea'
eon.
II is not a revelation at all oui
lis taken from BerSley's Idealism and
is much exaggerated Not only is
Mrs. Eddys book. Science and
| Health" full OF ungrammatical SEN
fences and misspelled words but II
makes assertions so absurd that it is
| hard 10 believe her sane and harder
still to understand how anyone of a
| rational mind could believe her
statements.
Page 7-1G4 Edition, She saws cold
is thing of Imagination, yet she
wore heavy wraps to protect her
from the New England winters. Page
| $50, Edition 164, she says thirst IS
, imaginary, yet She drank water.
Page 250, Edition 1874, she says.
sight is not 4 thing of the eye aad
disease of the eyes Is an imagina-
ton, vet she wore speciacles. Page
Tt3. FGuion 164, she warrants
Christian Science tG grow teeth SO
30 years a. aga yet she went TO
dentist. Page us, Edition ib4, she
declared teod neither strengthens or
weakens the ody, yet she never
l4yad without eating. Page $50, Eli
,ior to4, she declares CHRISTIAN SCI
rnce Is able to replace mans lost
iug. mot with II artiicisi one hat
a genuine one. She SAYS there 9,
no power IN a drug but cnly IN mans
belief about the drug A man takes
morphine, believing it ia quinn e
phine without any belief at all and
ii kills him. How does il kill the
nan and the dog when both believe
II harmless? This is Mrs. Fddy's
answer. Page III. Edition 1904
That although the man believes the
morphine to be harmless qulnine,
yet the majority opinion" the
world over believes morphine to be
poisonous and therefore it kills man
in spite of his belief. The dog dies
too on the same basis. You VIII re-
member how colored people believed
others to have an ''evii eye" By
which in looking at their enemies,
they could cast spell over chem
That is Mrs. Eddy's idea in another
form.
Every reasonable system of re-
ligion gives some comfort in hui
man emergency. But not so with
Christian Science. An eminent
sociologist has pertlnently said.
Jesus went among the poor and the
lowly. II was said OF him, This
man rece'veth sinners, and eateth
with them" Christian Science does
act go among the poor and the out
r2st. 1t would not dare to do so. 1t
faro not 90 into the tenement where
men aud women On the poorest food
are barely living, where misery and
disease do their deadly work. 1t
would not dare to tell the woman
Burning with the fever OF starvation.
hat she is not sick. that she has no
fever and needs no food. 1t dare
not go into the wretched hove
where broken-heartcd mother
f,eeps above the oaly solace Of her
ching days-her little bare. IL dare
not 80 to her and say the child 10
aot dead. that in fact, she never had
! ehIld-ghe never had more than
IN Ideal, and all she has to do Is to
recall her ideal sentiment and she
Nil be happy.
Look at this man, crushed
bleeding, every bone in his body
broken, unconscious, breathing o4t
MS last breath while his wife clad
N her thin dress. and with her
ainched cheeks, means and croons
above him and calls aloud his name
20 which ne will never more re-
spond. Tell me Christian Scien-
fist dare so to the silent crowd
standing awe-struck above the mass
# bleeding flesh and broken bones
and say with cheerful and vibrant
voices that the man is not hurt, he ~
not bleeding, not a bone of him is
broken, no has never fallen. there
has been no accident. A Christian
Scientist dare not DO that IL such
a crowd, If the Christian scientiat
did dare do it and were man, he
would be driven from the midst with
blows and hootinss; If It were a
woman, they would mock her and
insult her as a disgrace to that sex
which ought to stand for all there