Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-16
Ella Wheeler WilcOx's
Answer to Sunday
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-. Printed in The nee Last May ana VOW -
Reprinted by Request.
TUE WORLD is composed Of many kinds Of people,
OF many ntellects in various stages Of develop
msnt.
Thousands Of people possessing good minds are yet
incapable OF philosophical reasoning; they cannot
think things for themselves they cannot read snd
digest what they read and they cannot form c0ncu-
sons Of their
Such people are greatly influenced by strons
mentality which casts its beams their path.
Whether It be the urid light from the underworld or
tho bright light from fairer realms such people are
easily made any religion which travels by
the electric waves Of revivas, and II Is blessing to
them 20 be converted by good influences in place OF
being controlled by evil
Mr. Dowie. few years ago. converted MOTE than
million men and women. built whole city and
amassed large fortune By his strong magnetic
methods Of propounding what he believed to be the
only gospel IN the world. lie reclaimed sinners re-
formed drunkards and revoutonzed certain stratas
OF society wherever he went. Nov have Mr. sun
day. who II doing a similar kind OF service TO the
world, in a similar way. All honor 20 him, and NAV
blessings follow in his footsteps But Mr Sunday must
not become too conceited, and he must beware "f
making himself ridiculous He has done this already
of his uttsrsnces For instance. the following
The Congress OF Relisions At the worlds fair in
Chicago n humbug. II az bad as Blavatsky-
ism. New Thought Christian Science Of the rest
OF them II like the doctrine Of renoarnation.
that tells you not to shy brick at that omcet the
because II your neighbours dead daughter
who took singing lessons back to life In another
form.
'Thsy are per cent mental suggestion . per cent
religion per cent voodooism and 81 per cent hum
bug"
such statements as these brand Mr.. Sunday
lsnoramus and they sure TO limit his field of use
fuihess.
Once there was a blind negro of arrested mentality.
called 'Blind Tom" lie could not read notes. AMI
knew nothing OF music yet he possessed
n marvellous gift Of imitation and he could FAY great
aft them he
gave much pleasure 10 his audiences for many years
and considered n wonder. But had Blind Tom
made the assertion that Mozart. Handel. Beethoven
and all the other mighty composers and all the per-
formers OF immortal music who their lives to it's
study "humbugs" and that his method Of making
music the only method then he would have been
very ridiculous indeed.
And that IL Just what Mr.. Sunday has done In MAX
ing this statement II hardly calls for reply hut
the really good work which MFR Sunday does IN helping
certain type OF drink victim to give up his vice. and
in turning the thoughts OF the toward serious
things (even II only temporarily make who has
the welfare of the world at heart to see the man
put himself In such an unfavorable light.
The big souls who took part IN the Congress of RE-
liRions at Chicago we're, compared TO Mr.. Sunday,
what Mozart and Handel and Beethoven were to
Blind Tom" Vlvakananda at that time youth
of no. yet he giant in brain, heart and soul His
knowledge his eoquence. his utter selnessness, hIe
broad spirit Of lberay toward all religions, HIS COM
plete absorption In his love of God and his desire to
help the world made him a remarkable figure and a
spiritual upf to ali who had the privilege of meeting
him.
Annie Besant IL of the greatest best and most
useful women God set earth Yet Mr.. Sunday
would include her in his category OF "humbugs.'
Meanwhile Mr.. Sunday shows his appalling ignorance
In his efforts be witty at the of theosophy
The philosophy Of relncarnAton teach that
the souls OF friends enter into the bodies OF animals
after death. Mr. Sunday has right TO make
statements. The minds Of OF his listeners may
be as undeveoped as his own. and they might take
his statement seriously.
The writer OF this article is Theosophist and she
resents false representation Of philosophy which
II understood, make every intelligent adore
God as the Creator love Chrat the perfect brother
(who had reached His last incarnation and therefore
had become zone with God"), and Innltleas sym
pathy ana knship all created thinSs philosophy
which utterly obliteratea the thought OF self and rem
ders the mind incapable OF purpose desire which
conflicts with universal good That Is what Theosophy
and reinoanation mean TO those who have the brain
to comprehend them Christ taught 'reincarnation.
When asked who is John the Baptist Christ replied;
IF will receive Il. this is Elias which was for 10
come He that hath ears to hear. let him hear" est
Mathew chaper XII.
New Thought II practical working phase OF The.
osophy New Thought teaches US that God all that
Is real in the universe. that n we practice the
presence OF God" In our daily lives and think OF Him
as light health. usefulness. prosperity. happiness
| peace and power, we will need no other conversion
Theosophiats and New Thought disciples understa nd
that people like Mr. Dowie and Mr. Sunday have their
place in the scheme Of the universe, Just as Blind
| Tom" had hia place In music But a. "Blind Tom
| did not presume 10 deny Handel an1 Mozart their
place also. Il would be tasteful and wise were Mr.
Sunday 60 refrain from his ignorant ana misleadips
references to greaer minds their greater philoso
phies
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