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Project Gutenberg's Christian Science, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: Christian Science
Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Last Updated: February 16, 2009
Release Date: August 19, 2006 [EBook #3187]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ***
Produced by David Widger
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
by Mark Twain

Contents

PREFACE


BOOK I. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX


BOOK II.

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

POSTSCRIPT

CHAPTER V

SUMMARY


CHAPTER VI

THE PASTOR EMERITUS

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

THE PRESIDENT

TREASURER AND CLERK

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

READERS

ELECTION OF READERS

THE ARISTOCRACY

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP

AND SOME ENGLISH REQUIRED

"READERS" AGAIN

MONOPOLY OF SPIRITUAL BREAD


CHAPTER VII.

THE NEW INFALLIBILITY

THE SACRED POEMS

THE CHURCH EDIFICE

PRAYER

THE LORD'S PRAYER-AMENDED

THE NEW UNPARDONABLE SIN

AXE AND BLOCK

READING LETTERS AT MEETINGS

HONESTY REQUISITE

FURTHER APPLICATIONS OF THE AXE

MORE SELF-PROTECTIONS

BOARD OF EDUCATION

PUBLIC TEACHERS

BOARD OF LECTURESHIP

MISSIONARIES

THE BY-LAWS

THE CREED

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY


CHAPTER VIII

"MOTHER-CHURCH UNIQUE"

"NO FIRST MEMBERS"

"THE"

A LIFE-TERM MONOPOLY

A PERPETUAL ONE

THE SANCTUM SANCTORUM AND SACRED CHAIR

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PASTOR-UNIVERSAL

PRICE OF THE PASTOR-UNIVERSAL

SEVEN HUNDRED PER CENT.


CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV


APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

APPENDIX D

APPENDIX E

APPENDIX F

MRS. EDDY IN ERROR

MAIN PARTS OF THE MACHINE

DISTRIBUTION OF THE MACHINE'S POWERS AND DIGNITIES

CONCLUSION



PREFACE

Book I of this volume occupies a quarter or a third of the volume, and consists of matter written about four years ago, but not hitherto published in book form. It contained errors of judgment and of fact. I have now corrected these to the best of my ability and later knowledge.

Book II was written at the beginning of 1903, and has not until now appeared in any form. In it my purpose has been to present a character-portrait of Mrs. Eddy, drawn from her own acts and words solely, not from hearsay and rumor; and to explain the nature and scope of her Monarchy, as revealed in the Laws by which she governs it, and which she wrote herself.

MARK TWAIN

NEW YORK. January, 1907.



BOOK I CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

"It is the first time since the dawn-days of Creation that
a Voice has gone crashing through space with such
placid and complacent confidence and command."

CHAPTER I
VIENNA 1899.

This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight, and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass, and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep gable decorated with boxes of bright colored flowers and cats; on the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the manure-pile. That sentence is Germanic, and shows that I am acquiring that sort of mastery of the art and spirit of the language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

There was a village a mile away, and a horse doctor lived there, but there was no surgeon. It seemed a bad outlook; mine was distinctly a surgery case. Then it was remembered that a lady from Boston was summering in that village, and she was a Christian Science doctor and could cure anything. So she was sent for. It was night by this time, and she could not conveniently come, but sent word that it was no matter, there was no hurry, she would give me "absent treatment" now, and come in the morning; meantime she begged me to make myself tranquil and comfortable and remember that there was nothing the matter with me. I thought there must be some mistake.

"Did you tell her I walked off a cliff seventy-five feet high?"

"Yes."

"And struck a boulder at the bottom and bounced?"

"Yes."

"And struck another one and bounced again?"

"Yes."

"And struck another one and bounced yet again?"

"Yes."

"And broke the boulders?"

"Yes."

"That accounts for it; she is thinking of the boulders. Why didn't you tell her I got hurt, too?"

"I did. I told her what you told me to tell her: that you were now but an incoherent series of compound fractures extending from your scalp-lock to your heels, and that the comminuted projections caused you to look like a hat-rack."

"And it was after this that she wished me to remember that there was nothing the matter with me?"

"Those were her words."

"I do not understand it. I believe she has not diagnosed the case with sufficient care. Did she look like a person who was theorizing, or did she look like one who has fallen off precipices herself and brings to the aid of abstract science the confirmations of personal experience?"

"Bitte?"

It was too large a contract for the Stubenmadchen's vocabulary; she couldn't call the hand. I allowed the subject to rest there, and asked for something to eat and smoke, and something hot to drink, and a basket to pile my legs in; but I could not have any of these things.

"Why?"

"She said you would need nothing at all."

"But I am hungry and thirsty, and in desperate pain."

"She said you would have these delusions, but must pay no attention to them. She wants you to particularly remember that there are no such things as hunger and thirst and pain.''

"She does does she?"

"It is what she said."

"Does she seem to be in full and functionable possession of her intellectual plant, such as it is?"

"Bitte?"

"Do they let her run at large, or do they tie her up?"

"Tie her up?"

"There, good-night, run along, you are a good girl, but your mental Geschirr is not arranged for light and airy conversation. Leave me to my delusions."


CHAPTER II

It was a night of anguish, of courseat least, I supposed it was, for it had all the symptoms of itbut it passed at last, and the Christian Scientist came, and I was glad She was middle-aged, and large and bony, and erect, and had an austere face and a resolute jaw and a Roman beak and was a widow in the third degree, and her name was Fuller. I was eager to get to business and find relief, but she was distressingly deliberate. She unpinned and unhooked and uncoupled her upholsteries one by one, abolished the wrinkles with a flirt of her hand, and hung the articles up; peeled off her gloves and disposed of them, got a book out of her hand-bag, then drew a chair to the bedside, descended into it without hurry, and I hung out my tongue. She said, with pity but without passion:

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