New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-01
A BPOOELYN APOSTLE.

A BROOhLYN APOSTLE.
For several months Brooklyn has had the
services of an apostolic surgeon who cures all
manner of diseases by laying his hands Oh the
patient and saying little prayer lie has been
observed to cure 1O1 cases in thrty-six minutes
by the watch. DR.. Mcnck is very industrious
doctor. and his claim that he has healed thou
sands does not seem unreasonable from his
variety of apostolic view. He does not shun
the public eye, but loves to heal the sick i'll a
crowd, and spends his money freely advertising
his apostolic powers The hall where he prac-
tises celestial Cor diabolical) medicine Is not
large enough to hold his patrons, ana ne pegs
UNFORTUNATELY for money to hire a place Dig
enough to hold him. With II wisdom which the
old-fogy style of apostle had not learned Dr.
Nonck has established sort OF " Annex OF
private hospital at his residence and invented
nice distinction between an apostle III puDlic ana
an apostle in his own hired house. In pubic,
his services are gratuiOus Cor rather Christs
services are); in private, these services are
worth So a head. lie gives five minutes at the
most to these private consultations and dlspen-
satlons of heavenly healing; that is to say, he
exacts ono dollar n minute for his apostolic
time. The discovery that people prefer to he
cured III a small room rather than large one,
does creditto DR.. Monck's sagacity. The men oil
this world will respect his financial genius
though they may not think HIM much OF an
apostle lie is making hundreds OF dollars n
day; and if nobody finds out his little game ard
exposes il, will be able to retire rich III year OF
SO.
The money view Of him is the only remark
able thing about DR.. Monck. Any good-Sizrd
Mormon elder could do as much healing per
diem if he could get the greenbacks for doing it.
There are probably ono hundred men and
women in the business of healing to short metre
and silver tunes in New-York and Brooklyn.
They do not all say the little prayer, but they
all take all the money they can get. But Dr.
Monck makes more in week than they all 90
in q month. If we are TO take sober view of
this matter. we shall be compelled to discredit
the aDostOic doctor People die Of diseases; II
il heavenly healer cures thousands OF people III
a month, it ought TO appear III the mortality re-
ports. Unhappily no such appearance is put Ill.
The death-rate remains stationary, with those
sli cbt oscillations which ordinary variations oil
heat and moisture account for. If this Is eX-
plained by the alleged fact that DR.. Monck is
engaged in curing aches that are not mortal, thu
importance of having an apostle among us Is
considerably reduced in magnitude. The poor
stupids who have tried to make fortunes out OF
pain killers must look on DIR. Moncks great
harvest of bank-bills with selt-contempt. DIR.
Moncll has taught them that the little bottle OF
water with n stick i'll it Is net necessary. lie
has even done away with the apostolic bottle OF
oil which Mr. Barnes tried recently in Brooklyn.
Tho money making "Annex" shows genius;
but Che vltalized handkerchief is higher flight.
Bottles are semi-civilzed things, and have been
known TO he used by horse-dOctors; a hand
kcrchier if il is clean, suggests dclicacy and re-
Gnrncnt. Speaking after the manner of men.
. there's millions in it,"
If anybody thinks this a serious business. we
beg TO assure him that anybody can heal all
manner OF aches. Get the patients attention
off from his pain, give his brain quick action
for n moment then ask HIM: Iou feel
better. don't Won ~ OF couisc he feels better.
# is little trick at least 5000 years old, and is
to-day the best hold of qaackery all over the
world If VIC are to be serious we must divide
our sympathy between those whose religious
convictions are shocked by this charlatanism
disguised as Christianity, and that public which
after thirty centuries can still be swindIed out
of its money by the DcSt-expoSeu piece OF
ouacLery that was ever ia the world. Some
thing more than sympathy is due to another
class of persons - the hopcessly diseased.
There are poor women MORALLY i'll with real
cancers into whose ears injudicous friends pour
the story of DR.. Monck'S cures. One cannot
think of such bcwildcred fcllow-creatures with
out the deepest and most painful cOmmisera
ton. 1t is last hope cluchcd Mt with teverisl
energy. In one such case, DR.. Monck is report
ed by the physician in attendance (who as n big
hearted man rather than as physician went
with his carriage for the apostle to have asked
800 for going, and to have finally refused to
90 when he learned that tho patient was too
moor TO pay $50 Such case chOllcs an honest
devil Gf there be one) with rage. 1t is all we
can bear to know that poor woman dying III
this horrible way is deludcd into false hopes.
The agony she feels when only her poverty
seems TO stand between her and the healing
tonch must be left to the contemplation OF
beings who are more or less than men.
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I MISS CHIRLESWORTH and THE SALV1-
TON ARMY.
A romantic story bearing on Daudets new
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