Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-05-07

and inert matter are unconscious,
proceed from drugs are really caused
by the faith in them which the false
human consciousness is educated to
feel" (page 4S4). Mrs. Eddy contra
diets Jesus again: "And Jesus answer
ing, said unto them, they that are
whole need not a physician, but they
that are sick" Mrs. Eddy contra
diets Moses: land he made the holy
amounting oil, and the pure incense OF
sweet spices, according to the work of
the apothecary." Mrs. Eddy also con-
tradicts Isaiah: For Isaiah had said,
let them take lump of figs, and lay it
for plaster upon the boil, and he
shall recover"
THE belief that life can be in mat
ter or soul in body, and that man
the result of the mortal error which
Christ or Truth destroys (page 1850.
Read this: For the life of the flesh
is in the blood; and / have given it to
you upon the altar to make atone
ment for your souls: for it is the
blood that maketh the atonement by
reason of the life" Lev. 17:11.
when you can waken yourself or
others out of the belief that all must
die. you can then exercise Jesus spir-
itual power to reproduce the presence
of those who have thought they died
but not otherwise" (page 75). By the
way, what has become of Mrs Eddy?
Is she dead and buried-or did she
only think she died?
Jesus said of Lazarus: Our friend
Lazarus sleepeth: but l go that 1 may
awake him out of sleep. Jesus re-
stored Lazarus by the understanding
that Lazarus had never died, not by an
admission that his body had died and
then lived again. Had Jesus believed
that Lazarus had lived or died in his
body, the Master would have stood on
the same plane of belief as those who
buried the body, and he could not
have resuscitated him" (page 75). If
Mrs. Eddy had read her New Testa-
ment she would have found, Jesus
said unto them plainly, Lazarus is
dead" Jesus found Lazarus dead, he
believed him dead, and he raised him
from the dead.
mot because of muscular exercise
but by reason of the blacksmith's
faith in exercise, his arm becomes
stronger" On the contrary the black
smith may utterly disbelieve exercise
will enlarge his muscles, nevertheless,
with exercise his muscles enlarge and
become stronger.
"If matter were the cause of ac-
ton, and if muscle, without Volition
of mortal mind, could life the ham
mer and strike the anvil, it might be
thought true that hammering would
enlarge the muscles" And this is di-
vine physics. If matter were the cause
of action, why should hammering en-
large the muscles, more than if mind
were the cause of action? Nonsense
"The trip-hammer is not increased
muscles are are as material as wood
and iron? Because nobody believes
that kind is producing such result
on the hammer" (page 19S-9). And
yc. some persons believe Mrs. Eddy
was inspired
But notice this: "If from an injury
or from any cause, Christian Scicn-
tist were seized with pain SO violent
that he could not treat himself NELL
tally-the sufferer should call sur
geon, who would give him hypoder-
mic injection" (page 464). When we
read this we hoped Mrs. Eddy was re-
turning to a state of canity. She gives
the laugh and the lie to all her va
porings on the subject of sickness and
suffering.
But now we reach the milk in the
cocoanut: "A thorough perusal of the
authors publications heals sickness"
(page 446). Ha! ha! But man is in
capable of sin, sickness and death" :"
What?
The foregoing quotations are taken
from Mrs. Eddy's book Science and
Health" of the edition of 1912. They
are bright and shining examples of
her physics, metaphysics and theology.
Did you know Science and Health"
contained such dogmas? And are you
ready to subscribe to such makebe-
lieve philosophy as worthy of serious
consideration and belief?
1t is very doubtful if Mrs. Eddy in
all her brain-storms really knew just
what she was trying to teach. She
certainly could not state it in a CO.
herent manner. Here we present her
fundamental teachings:
l. God is the only real existence.
2. Matter has no real existence.
8. Man has no objective existence,
but is merely Gods idea.
4. The universe. with its myriad
forms of life and being and activity.
has not objective existence, but exists
subjectively in human minds as mere
ideas This is certain. for she says,
Matter is but an image of mortal
mind" (page 116), and further, The
physical universe expresses the con-
scious and unsconcious thoughts of
mortals" (page 4S4).
Like other demented minds. Mrs.
Eddy was haunted by terrible buga-
boo. 1t appears on nearly every page
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