Mortal Mind and Real Money

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 10, 1908

Mortal Mind and Real Money

THE inconsistency of Christian Science teachings was strikingly illustrated recently at New York, when Solomon Raisler, who had had his foot treated by a Christian Science healer and lost it, sued the healer for twenty-five thousand dollars. The jury awarded him six thousand dollars' damages. Concerning the suit and the verdict, an exchange well remarks:—

It seems strange that Mr. Raisler should miss a thing so essentially material as a right foot, when Eddyism declares that matter is non-existent and the product of mortal mind. It also seems equally queer that he sought a partial compensation for the loss of something that did not exist by trying to acquire another substance as grossly material as filthy lucre. Another peculiar thing is that Mr. Benjamin, the healer, should be compelled to produce that which is non-existent, to the extent of six thousand dollars, to satisfy the demands of a fellow disciple. We are sorely perplexed as to how this non-existent product of mortal mind was passed from one man to the other.