South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-30
A Word About orr UItra-Sober Tight Wads

Mays Is doing. II is miraculous only to those who
like the Doubling Thomases" in the days OF the
Nazarene couldn't believe until they had been
given sign" II is the law of mentalisrn at work
and that .s all at work even though no doubt as
Mr. Mays puts it, he doesn't know what II is nor
how he does It.
There Emmanuel II who went through the
country some 20 years ago. doing the same sort of
things. claiming especial endowment in his
from the supernatural. lie was man of higher at
tainments intellectually than Mr.. Mays perhaps
and not only intellectually but spiritually. though
maybe for that reason lacking in comparison, in
magnetic reserve.
The world will grow weaker and wiser" you
know. and is growing weaker as it grows wiser
fact generally Of the Individual as well as Of
the composite whole Emmanuel II out. after
few years: indeed after few months--wore out
very from the moment that an aggregation of
financial gentlemen took backing him and the
receptiveness of his patients began to dwindle
through the mental reaction Of what proved to be
commercialized doubt
II is a big subject and no use trying 10 cover IL
in the editorial comment of the day We would say
to people of limited means. however that so far as
investing any money in a Mays sanitarum or what
ever they may call it. is concerned you had better
. save that money and buy farm-even though il be
but foot square You fooling with a product
more uncertain than oil, even though they appar-
emily have pay well--for the we'll of "rnentalIic''
magnetism dry awful easy. You talk about the
elusive dollar" WELL the ramifcations OF mentasm
aren't elusive. but they make Of It the most COM
bative th1g that has yet been known to man.
1t works something like driving an automo-
bile sometimes makes little difference how care
full you are if there a reckless driver in the car
you going to meet. All minds are not in one
head. Mary Baker Eddy about the only person
in modern years that has been able to execute the
law OF mentallc- for long. and leave sue
cessors to follow her and she did 1t by the
indirection of regionzing It, putting service ahead
Of commercalization and by so doing capturing an
audience that commercialization would never have
brought
Christian Science has been a financial success in
consequence, well religious one one of the
best proofs in the world that it is Christian science
in that it always has put service ahead OF reward
Service first. reward afterward, in Biblical
cord Doubtful. very doubtful, law Of mental
ism 1t is utilized by Mr.. Mays, can be CONNER
calized successfully with erciazation the
mental purpose. It will work sef-destructon, dis
pelng the operative and receptive forces
1t is Christian Science, and that all is; the
application of the same mental attitude through
suggestion. spoken no. backed by an unusual
supply OF magnetic force which Mr. Mays
happens to possess. It is science old as the hills
but that has never been commercialized with
success. with commerciasm the first motive
by the so-called scientific schools Of salesmanship
which thought to utilize It in fating business.
Il is a Divine law and rule divine laws do
not mammonze-at least & first purpose
The incorporates OF the Mays santarium, il
there are any such incorporators, will find. we fear
that capitalization of such invisible intangible and
service generating forces dependent for certainty
upon given sets Of mental conditions are quite as
elusive of the liquid gold" that they tell
about in the oil ieds-if not so
Remember the meanderngs Of the '.hddler's flea"
Now you have him. you don't