Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-05-07
Christian Science q
Make Believe PHILOSOPHY

as depravity, evil beliefs, passions and
appetites, fear, depraved will, self
justification, pride, envy, physical
force, deceit, hatred, revenge, sin
sickness and death. These definitions
should be remembered when her book
I is read
Mrs. Eddy defines God as Sub
stance" (page 46S). She also makes
Spirit, Good, Truth, Principle, Deity,
Love, Light, Intelligence. These are
by her spelled with a capital letter.
Note this, as it will assist in perceiv-
ing her jugglery of words.
1t will be quickly discovered, even
by casual and unprejudiced student,
that Mrs. Eddy has involved her
teachings in all the confusion and
with all the cunning of an insane
mind. Here is an example: There is
no pain in Truth (God) and no truth
in pain. There is no nerve In Mind
(God) and no mind in nerve. There
is no matter in Mind (God) and no
mind in matter. There is no matter
in Life (God) and no life in matter"
(page 113). The words in parenthe-
sis are mine and are the synonyms.
Here she cunningly juggles with words
such as Life and life, and with all
this deception calls it "Divine meta
physics"
Consider some of her truths" Con-
slider them carefully:
Truth makes no laws to regulate
sin, sickness and death, for these are
unknown to Truth, and should not be
recognized as reality" (page 1S4.
The term Truth means God. Mrs.
Eddy forgot the ten commandments
were given by God to regulate sin.
She forgot that, "The Lord struck the
child that Uriah's wife bare unto Da-
vid, and it was very sick" She was
so infatuated that she forgot God said,
Dust thou are and unto dust. shalt
thou return"
what is termed disease does not
exist. 1t is neither mind nor matter
(page 1881. Disease is however a
condition of mind or matter. Sickness,
ague, weakness, pain, consumption,
lothsome disease, mutilation, dropsy,
wounds, lameness, sunstroke, blind
ness, fever, palsy, insanity, pestilence,
and leprosy are all mentioned in the
scriptures as being real. Christ heal
ed many of these disorders. Mrs.
Eddy fatty denies the scriptures when
she says disease does not exist
Nerves have no more sensation,
apart from what belief bestows upon
them, than the fibres of a plant
(4SS) Sensation is a fact of universal
human experience and is recognized
by children and adults who know
nothing about nerves, and who have
no beliefs on the subject of nerves.
Heat would pass as painless from
the body as gas dissipates into the air
when it evaporates but for the belief
that Inflammation and pain must ac-
company the separation of heat from
the body" (page 375). This is the
vagary of ar unbalanced mind Heat
does pass painessly from the body.
Gas does not evapOrate. No sane
mind believes that Inflammation and
pain must accompany the separation
of heat from the body.
Man is incapable of sin, sickness,
and death" (page 475). This is a
fiat contradiction of the scriptures,
and of human experience. Jesus said,
Il go away, and ye shall seek me,
and shall die in your sin: Whittier I
go ye cannot come" And again, II
said therefore unto you that we shall
die in your sins: for except We believe
that | am He, We shall die in your
sins" And again, Wherefore, as by
one man sin entered the world, and
death by sin, and so death passed
upon all men, for that all have sin
ned" Note also the sicknesses that
followed Israel as a consequence of
sin: Il will even appoint over you
terror, consumption, and the burning
ague, that shall consume the eyes, and
cause sorrow of heart"
EVIL can have no place where all
space is filled with God" (page 469).
Evil, which is an act and also rela-
tion does not fill" space.
1.-THE knowledge that brain-lobes
cannot kill a man or affect the func-
tions of mind would prevent the brain
from becoming diseased"C page 1860.
And still some people consider Mrs.
Eddy a brilliant philosopher. Brain
lobes by their form and condition do
affect the functions of mind. The
brain often becomes diseased in spite
of knowledge and beliefs.
"Inharmony would make matter the
cause as well as the effect Of intelli-
gence or Soul (God), thus attempting
to separate Mind (God) from God
The words in parenthesis are mine.
How sane this reasoning is: Inhar-
mony' makes matter the cause and eff
feet of God, thus attempting to sep
arate God from God.
Evil is but an illusion and has no
real basis Cpage 4S0). Acting on this
theory. suppose you walk into the
bank tomorrow with a sack and pro-
ceed to carry off a bushel of coin and
greenbacks. If you are not shot full
of unreal holes by an unreal pistol, in
the unreal hands of the unreal bank
er. you would be speedily seized by the
unreal sheriff and hustled off to the
unreal Jail, to be tried later in the un-