THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
JANUARY 21, 1904.
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no noble men and women In New
York. They are here, Jut they exer
cise no influence upon government and
as paradoxical as it "may seem, they
are in one sense as selfish as the typi
cal Wall street crowd. They make no
effort to stem this tide toward the de
generation of the race by changing the
government. - . .
frhere is no possibility of changing
toese putty faced millions during this
feneration. They will continue "to
vote 'er straight" and each will follow
his political "boss" with all the earn
estness that the fanatics follow Dowie,
What then is tne remedy? Let the
west and the south take, the political
power away from Wall ttreet. Set up
different ideals. Co back to first prin
ciples. Let the west wrest control of
the land, money and transportation
from the two or three dozen great in
tellect3 that now make the 80,000,000
people of the United States their ser
vants and who have applied to their
methods the "materialistic conception
of history" and know no "onsht" or
"ought not." That is the mission of
the people's party. Every man in the
whole United States who believes that
there Is somothing higher and better
in life than the accumulation of dol
lars, rightfully belongs in the ranks of
.he people's party. T.
A BILLION DOLLAR CHURCH
It It a Pom in Granite-A New Cult That
Spread Llka a PrHe Flra-Wkat
an Old Pap Saw InKtwTwk
New York City, Jan, 14, 1904. (Edi
torial Correspondence. Christian sci
ence has so overspread New York and
other cities that it has to be reckoned
with. There are no- authentic statis
tics concerning the membership of this
new religious cult, but it is everywnere
conceded to be very large and what
is more, it is rapidly .growing. As
thousands of readers of The Indepen
dent know no more about this sect
than what they have gained by casual,
and often sarcastic references to it in
the daily papers, they will doubtless
be interested in a statement concern
ing the movement as it appears to an
unprejudiced observer The Indepen
dent's motto is: "The truth about
everything," and it as freely publishes
the truth about Christian , science as
it would about the money question.
The membership of the Christian
science churches in this city runs up
into the thousands. The First Church,
scientist, located at 9Cth street and
Central Park, west, the very heart of
fashionable New York, cost $1,185,000.
It has the second largest organ in the
United States and another organ at
the other end of the church from
which chime and echo edeets are ren
dered; and a membership of 1,400. The
architectural effect Is tne most im
posing in this country and it is doubt
ful if there is anything much to ex
ceed it in all Europe. The effect pro
duced upon a visitor is" that of seren
ity, rest and permanence. There is
'perfect harmony in color and form
and a solidity that makes one say,
"Here is the rock of ages." Certain
ly there are no such striking effects
produced anywhere else in America
by the art and skill of the architect
as in this building. It is a song of
rest, a poem of the ages, a picture of
the invisible. '
There are many Christian science
church organizations in New York.
Some meet in halls, others in church
buildings, one of which, besides the
First Church, is very costly and beau
tiful. The editor of The Independent
has examined the congregations of
some of them with, ho trusts, an un
prejudiced and critical eye, Inquiring
what Is the character and intellectual
standing of the men and women who
have adopted Christian science.
The first thing that impressed-itself
For over sixty years Mrs, Winslows
Soothing Syrup has ben used by
mothers for tlnlr children wr lie teeth
ing. Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by a sick child
suffering and crying with pain of cut
ting teeth? If m, sond at once and
Ret a bottle of "Mrs. WI ikIow'h Sooth
ing Syrup" for Children Teething. Its
valuo Is Incalculable. II w.U relieve
the noor llttl sufferer Immediately.
Depend upon It, mothers, thrr no
mistake about It. It cure diarrhoea,
regulate tha stoma U and bowtla,
rum wind colic, vrftrnt the runm, if
duces InOammitU.n, and give tone
and aneriry to tha whole nyMrm. "Mrs,
Ylnlow' Soot hi nc 8) tup" tor fl.it.
drrn trrthlo.t U plousnnl to thw Ut
ami I the prcmlptlnu or on of th
oldest and livtt female pnyilclana and
n time in th United SU'.t , and U f r
ala by ail drirsUU throughout th
world, rrite, rent a lstlle. I.
tiro and mk for "Mr. Vir.dow'
Ht'tbSiig Hjrun."
upon him was: .All these people are
enjoying the best of health. Their
complexions are clear and their ey'es
are bright. In a large audience of a
thousand or more, when there was an
epidemic of coughs and colds in New
York, and when a constant coughing
was heard In every other assemblage,
in this congregation there was but one
person who coughed during the whole
evening. There was no sign of chronic
disease or other illness to be discov
ered in that audience. The face of
every one who could be seen from the
point of observation was critically ex
amined, The point of view, however,
was such that only about one-third of
the 'faces could be seen.
Another thing that impressed itself
upon the observer was the look of
hope, peace, contentment and happi
ness that was just a3 apparent as the
evidence of health.
What is the intellectual capacity of
these people? That is what every pop
ulist will first ask. Populists have
had such contests with the political
mullet heads in the past, men of such
dull intellects that when they were
selling corn, ten bushels for a dollar,
at the same time were saying that
they wanted two dollars for ten bush
els, but declaring that they did not
want money any cheaper who could
not see that when one dollar would
buy twice as much corn, that that dol
lar would be 50 per cent cheaper that
they will care nothing about another
set of people of the same intellectual
capacity.
A Christian science mid-week meet
ing is one in. which the congregation
does most of the talking. So at the
great First Church this writer, went
to judge of the intellectual standing
of the men and women who have be
come followers of this new cult, by
listening to them speak as well as to
study their carriage and personal ap
pearance. There were several distinct
types among the speakers. Two of
them, one a man and the other a
woman, undoubtedly were of high cul
ture. The words they used, the dis
tinctness of their utterance, the ele
gance of their language proved that.
There were others not so highly cul
tured, but all of the speakers were
men and women of good attainments.
The only conclusion, and it was irre
sistible, was these people averaged
very high in intellectual ability.
What about the substance of the
addresses that were made? For the
most nart thev were testimonials con
cerning how they had been healed by
Christian science methods. Some of
these tales were most marvelous, and
the strangest of all of them were giv
en by the speakers who showed that
they were of the highest culture and
Dest education.
How did all this affect a populist
from the plains of Nebraska? He
must follow his motto, "The truth
about everything.'' He will only write
what he saw with his own eyes and
heard with his own ears.
He has never doubted the power
of mind over the body. He has seen
a .man die of fear, when no material
object touched him. He ha3 seen a
man die in the army hospitals from
very slight wounds mere scratches
when another, 4 shot alt to pieces,"
recovered. The one believed that he
was going to die and the other was
determined to get well. To what ex
tent the mind can mould the body-
break down or build up tissue has
never been ascertained by the methods
of modern science. The testimony of
thousands of men and women men
and women of good character and
sound minds cannot be set aside as
altogether visionary. That method of
treating this new movement is neither
reasonable nor honest.
The bald statements of the earlier
teachers of Christian science are al
ready being modified and toned down.
It la impossible for men of sound ml ad
to give much attention to statements
that are self-contradictory. It is im
possibly to believe things that are
inconsistent with themselvec. It Is
very apparent that Christian aclent
Ibts give different meanings to worda
f i om that generally accepted. Their
terminology U not consistent or In
telligible to the uninitiated,
A an example of this, on of Use
ixakera at tne First Church gave a
description of a disease so accurate
that nonn acquainted with medical
practice would fait lntantly to nam
it. tl wtu pneumonia. Ita testlfUd
that under Chrlat.an science treatment
ho waa hald In a few hour. A
few miMurnt after h dwlarrd tiinit
positively that the whol thing was
an "Illusion," ait ' error. i hr l
no tu h thins? ux tUhnfm." "It l.
all a I If." WlH'ti another iimlit'a
attention w drawn to thl drrUra
Hon. he said: "Spiritual truths can
nut express! In words that kv
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the expression of mind and therefore
all is in fact mind."
Whatever one may think of the sys
tem taught by Mrs. Eddy, one thing is
certain: Its tremendous growth, the
character and great wealth of the or
ganization, the rapidity with which it
intreases. makes it something that
must be taken into account. The press
here no longer attempts to ignore u.
Even the New York Sun, its most bit
ter ODixjnent. has of late enUiely
changed its tone toward it. Million
dollar churches of such beauty that
they are or themselves poems in gran
ite, hundred.-) of thousands of adher
ents, with constantly Increasing num
ber prewlnn for admission to an or
ganisation whose tenets prevent It
from proselyting or making any active
efforts to obtain memUTs, prcwnU a
altuatlnn that cannot be Ignore I. All
thia, when the terms la whnh it at
tinipta to xprt- it tcnria are un
intelligible to th. ouUide world and
ita ntntrmrMiU of Ita t!o trtoa ulf.
contradictory to the ordinary man, is
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