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REV. MR. M'KENZIE AND CHRIS-
TIAN SCIENCE.
Tho very largo audience, that gath
ered at tho theatre last Sunday night
to hear Rov. Mr. McKenzlo's lecture
on Christian Science Is convincing
- proof that a largo and Increasing
number of people aro Interested In
I this new religion or philosophy." This
j oelng so, It may be worth while to
takoomo spaceUi' Truth to oxamino
its cairns of superiority to other
forms, of religion and to discover, it
possible, the reason for its rapid
growth.
Promulgated only thirty years ago
j by Mrs. Mary Baiter E. Eddy it .has
gained adherents In every country on
tho globe. Its teachers and healers
aro numbered by the" thousands. Its
j churches are numerous and beautiful
and no difficulty Is experienced In
f raising tho money to build these cost-
i ly edifices and they aro always dedi
cated free from "aeb"t.' Its member
ship includes tho most Intellectual
and intelligent people in tho commu
nity,and its leaders are' among tho
brainiest of jurists, scholars, writers
and professional men. Tho congrega
tions which crowd its churches ( aro
happv, cheerful and apparently pros
perous people, proving that their rw
llgion is certainly not a gloomy one.
What is the secret of Its marvelous
growth and its ready acceptance by
even, the brightest minds? It is not
due to eloquent preachers, for Its ser
vices consist only of singing, prayer,
and the reading of tho. bible and tho
Christian Science text book, "Science
and Health." It does no proselyting
nor does it seek to attract attention by
street preaching and clashing cym
bols, yet It has grown moro propor
tionately In the past twenty-five years
than, any other denomination. There
must bo a reason for this.
Perhaps the first one is that it Is a
religion of the world. It doesn't
confine itself, to preparingmen for a
future life. It seeks to 'make him
healthy, happy and prosperous In this
life.'' Its conception of God as a pres
ent 'help In sickness arid "trouble of
every kind is quite dlfferftnf from that
of other churches, for while they all
profess faith in God none of them
practice it to tho extent Christian
Scientists do.
Pj-fabably tho majority of people
werd- first attracted to Christian
Science by Its power of healing dis
ease. Many of them wero in the last
stages of a long continued and ap
parently Inclinable disease. They
wero healed and what wonder that
they should become tho most ardent
t4 believers In tho doctrines of Chris-
tlon Science? That they have effect
ed tho most marvelous cures no ono
can doubt who Is familiar with their
literature or, who has attended their
Wednesday' night testimony meetings.
Cancer, consumption, Brlght's disease
. , and other so-called Incurable maladies
' havo yielded to. their thea'tmoit, and
while one, hears only of, tho cures' ef
fected I doubt whether they have ns
great a proportion of failures as thoro
aro In ordinary medical practice.
i Yet tho cures they effect aro no
, moro wonderful than those made by
other means. Patent medicines and
prescriptions by physicians In which
there Is absolutely no virtue, havo
1 effected astonishing cures. Roman
fi Catholic shrines and relics, have made
tho lamo to walk, tho blind' to see and
havo cured apparently Incurable dis
eases. Tho records of tho medical
profession show that the disease
known as "Kind's Evil,'1' has been
0? cured by tho patient touching oveh tho
garments of tho king. Hypnotic sue
1 gestlon has not only cured serious
, mental and physical disorders, but It
4 has- erradlcated depraved propensl-
i ties and broken vicious habits. Men-
1 tal science and divine science havo
j
thoir followers and their healers and
tho cures they effect nro as wonderful
as those ot Mrs. Eddy's cult
Now may it not bo that tho cures ef
fected by all of the abovo means
and indeed by tho medical profession
generally belong to ono class nnd aro
the result of psychological conditions
or operations? No curatlvo virtue ro
sldes in tho shin bono of a long dead
saint or a splinter of tho truo cross.
Few patent medicines havo any medi
cinal virtue, and not many physicinns
will guarantee that their prescrip
tions w'lll always havo a beneficial ef
fect. Tho Christian Scientist will tell
you that God alone effects tho cure
In their cases. Yet It Is preposterous
to suppose that tho Deity is induced
'to produce, some physical change In
tho body through tho prayers' of tho
sufferer or tho healer, which He would
not havo dono had Ho not been so
supplicated.
To" thoso who havo road Hudson,
Quackenbush and others on psychic
phenomena their theory of tho dual
consciousness of man offers a ready
and reasonable explanation of all
these cures and also of mind readings,
hypnotism and so-called spiritualis
tic manifestations. This theory is
thnt man has a double mentnllty. One
Is the conscious mind which receives
tho sensory impressions with which
wo think, reason and aro conscious
of tho material world around us. Tho
other is tho sub-conscious mind which
controls tho vital functions, Is tho
seat of memory, and the primary In
stincts, Is tho ono which Is actlvo
when tho conscious mind Is uncon
scious as in sleep, or In a hypnotic
state, or In a so-called spiritualistic
trance. It does not act through the
senses of tho body, It is nblo to re
ceive Impressions from tho sub-conscious
mind of others and acts Inde
pendent of the conscious mind. Any
one who has seen hypnotic experi
ments knows that a person under hyp
notic Influence that Is when his con
scious mind is dormant and the sub
conscious mind, Is tho actlvo one
knows that tho patient accepts any
suggestions of tho operator as nu
thoratlve. Ho will believe that cold
water Is hot, that food Is poisonous,
that a nauslous dose Is pleasant, and
the' physical organisms will respond
faithfully to these Impressions. Tho
subconscious mind of tho mnd reader
and the spiritualist medium reads tho
sub-conscious minds of tho nudlenco
and learns facts that tho conscious
mind has long forgotten and thus
seems to bo aided by " supernatural
power.
And thus the mind of tho Christian
Science healer Impresses upon tho
sub-conscious mind of his pationt that
disease has no reality, that God Is
not the author of sickness, that his
body Is perfect. This is impressed
moro firmly by reading the bible and
"Sclenco and Health" until finally tho
physical organisms respond to this be
lief and a cure is effected, and this
often without talth on tho part pf tho
conscious mind.
Tho same .explanation covers other
wonderful cures. The faith and be
lief of the sub-conscious mind In tho
holy relics In tho physician or tho
medicines, reacts on tho physical body
and produces thoso changes which
aro desired and expected.
Tho Christian Scientist denies
most strongly that hypnotism has any
thing to do with his cures. The
spiritualist is also hrm In his belief
that It Is tho spirits of dead friends
who send them thoir communications,
while tho man who has left his
crutches at tho shrlno of tho Lady
of Laurdes and walks away a well
man,glves all credit to a-supernatural
power. But must -not all such cures
of a common character bo ascribed
to Bomo universal law?
But tho Christian Scientist says his
cures aro moro permanent nnd aro
therefore In a class by themselves.
But may this not be explained by his
stronger religious convictions, tho at
mosphere of optimism nnd faitli In
which ho Is placed, nnd tho high moral
standards which aro Insisted upon?
Wo know that ovil passions and an
Immoral llfo will produce physical dis
orders and that purity of thought and
deed nro usually accompanied by a
healthy body. ,
No, a diseased condition of tho body
is as real as a healthy condition, but
It Is not a natural ono, or ono or
dained by God. But tho mind can
control tho body and wo do not know
the limits of this control..
Tho Christian Scientist bo
Heves that immortal mind
will finally overcome death. I
do not know that this Is oven desir
able. But it seems possible that man
may arrive at such a condition of men
tal nnd physical pertcctlon that when
death does como it will como at tho
end of n long and fully matured life,
without pain, regret or remorse.
it may seem as If I havo banished
God from tho caro of his children.
Yet this Is not so, for It is God who
has placed within ovory human bolng
tho power tor his moral and physical
regeneration. He does not require
anyono to ask Him to mako special
application of His power In their case.
And this brings us to tho question
of ovil as viewed from tho Christian
Sclenco Btnndpoint and as oxplalned
by Rov. Mr. McKonzio, which I will
take up In a futuro article. N. B. D.
Salt Production.
A barrel of salt Is produced In tho
United States each year for every four
Inhabitants. Now York Is the leading
salt producing State, the yield being
ono barrel for each Inhnbltnnt.
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NOTICE.' ' ,., ffi'
In tho District Cour.tr Probatp Dijft ft
vision, in nnd for Salt 'Lake- J3puntyj'1 7
State of Utah. , ,; -vn,J '" 4
in the matter of tho estate-of Hou-;; 'J
crt Pixton, Sr., deceased: NOtlcD. j
Tho petition of tho Utah Mattress I
& Mfg. Co., praying for tho Issuance ' f
to h. C. Judd of letters of adminlstra- 1
tion In tho cstato of Rohort Plxton,
Sr., deceased, has been sot for hear- j
lng on Saturday, the 2nd day qt Da- jj
comber. A. D. 1005. at 10 o'clock n, m. I
at tho County Court House, In--tho ,
Court Room of said Court, In Salt , t
l-nko City, Salt Lake County, Utah, r (
Witness tho Clork of snld Court m
with tho seal thereof nlllxod, this 17th M
day of November, A. D. l'9'05:' "''-, fl
(Seal.) .1. U. ELDREDGE, JR., II
Clerk.
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