St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26
THEIR AWFUL POWER,
Some Things Pauline Learned
at the Hands of a Chris
tian Scientist.
She Had a Headache and Al
lowed a st. Paul Healer
to Treat Her.
She Also Heard What DR..
Waddell Had to Say on
the Subject.
He Denounces Some Systems
as a Species Of the
n Black Art. e.

would go, "take treatment" which is
the technical expression of putting
one's self under the influence of Chris
tan scientists. A pleasant-faced woman
opened the door at which she rang, ush-
cred her into dimly-lighted room. gave
her an uncOmmOnly comfortable chair,
and took seat close beside her.
You have a headache, you say" in
CURED the healer. Pauline thought she
had. ''Do you worry?" was next asked.
Pauline allowed that she did. "Well,
don't do it,"
No, ma'am," meekly responded
Pauline in the long unused submissive
tones of convent girl.
''Lean your head back and rest"
gently commanded the healer, and the
patient did as she was told.
"Close your eyes," was supplemented.
Pauline closed one eye and Squinted
through the other to see what the healer
was doing. She was sitting back in her
chair, with her hand to her eyes, in an
attitude of prayer. She did not move.
and after minute OF two Paulire'S one
eye grew lonesome, being the only act
i've member of the party, so she closed
it softly and-Wanted to smoker. Ly-
ing back as she was in the chair, she
could not quite make up her mind
which she felt the most like-getting
shaved or having tooth pulled. Pretty
soon it began TO seem foolish, sitting
there side by side and saying not a
word. Pauline waXed hysterical. She
had to swallow. and the atmosphere
was so holy she had her doubts whether
swallowing was proper. But it had to
be, done, and oh, how the silent room
echoed with the creaking of the
unlocked one eye again to peep at the
healer to see if she seemed at all mad
because of the interruption. But not
one whit had she changed her position.
There she sat-immOvable as the SpynX
and ten times better looking. Pauline
shut up the eye once more, and had half
a notion to bolt. She began to feel
funny. She began to feel strangely
restful. Some subtitle influence was at
work upon her; her levItious spirit
calmed into something more like solem-
nifty. She did not stir, because she no
longer had any desire to. For twenty
or thirty minutes she rested--actually
rested-physlcally. mentally, spiritually.
No wonder she was scared. for in reality
we poor hurried mOrtalS
ARE STRANGERS TO REST.
Now and then, for time. we may be
inactive. But the inward struggle keeps
up under the outward quiet Just the
same. At length the healer stirred, and
so did Pauline. One knows how she
felt, and the other looked as a person
does when aroused from sound sleep.
'HOW is your head nOw?' asked the
healer.
81 declare | had forgotten all about
it, exclaimed Pauline, half ashamed of
herself to think she had been guilty of
any such inattentOn.
That's right" replied the healer.
laughing. land do not try to remember
it again" Paulines hand was fumbling
among the folds of her dress to find her
purse. When she brought it up from
the depths of her hidden pocket and
propOunded the customary conundrum-
customary whether it be bodies that are
SOOthed or souls that are Saved-"HOw
mach do l owe you?' the healer refused
to take cent.
YOU'LL be sorry for this when you're
SOBER" flashed through Pauline's mind,
but she didn't say it. Instead she
gaSpcd: swell, you are the first Chris
tian scientist: / ever knew who failed to
extend life eternal with the left hand
and hold out the right for the almighty
dollar
Properly speaking. I do not practice
Christian SCIENCE said the healer.
What is it, then, that you do
practice?'
'Pneumatopathy.'
''Pneu-er- Please spell it,
''P-n-e-u-m-a-t-O-p-a-t-h-y, or the
science of mental and bodily health
through spiritual law
sSIVbaf ic ha iii hotu.oo, x,o,..,
science and Christian science?"
Il wish you would come up here this
evening and let Dr.. Waddell answer
that question. He is so much better
able to make it clear to you than am"
After learning that DR.. II. j. Waddell
is an eX-pupil of Mrs. Eddy-the pope
in petticOatS of Christian Science-Who
has departed from the teachings of his
instructresS. and has evolved a theory
of his own, which cOrrects all the pal
pable Inconsistencies of Mrs. Eddy's
doctrine, Pauline took her departure,
promising to see the doctor in the
morning.
Dr.. II. J. Waddell is a man whom a
person would turn to
LOOK AT A SECOND TINE
in passing lin on the street. Sheer, We
unbelevers, but upon my soul there is
something supernatural about his face.
1t is so purely spiritual that one gets a
notion OF transparency from it. His
eyes are WOnderful-bright, clear. fas-
cinating, holding ones gaze as a serpent
might. But the person thus Spell-bound
is eXhilarated, raised up in the spirit.
Never in Pauline's life did she feel so
much like giving expression to a shout
ing MethOdist's ''Glory!'' as she did
when DR.. Waddell took her by the
hand and brought the marvellous powers
he commands to bear upon her. And the
effect his mere presence produces is in
tensely heightened by the subject and
substance of his conversation. Mrs.
Eddy's science, as everybody knows,
denies the existence of evil. The ma
terial world is wholly Elusive; you and
l are mere nOn-SubStantial ideaS-be-
liefs--created by the universal princi-
pie, the Immortal mind that alone really
exists and which "keeps up a terrible
thinking from eternity to eternity. OF
course, according to this, all the ills the
human flesh is heir to are beliefs which
must not be flattered by ascribing real
lty to them in any way. When a man
has bOilS, in Christian science parlance
he has "a belief OF boils," which only
needs to be resolutely denied to cease to
be. A boy does not have humps, he has
"a belief of humps" Likewise, when
cat has kittens, she has, exactly speak
ing, belief of kittens. The analogy is
clear, and anybody can understand from
this how we are all beliefs. 1t used to
be the terror of Pauline's life when she
was among Christian scientists, that
some healer would go to work and
treat her" right off the face of the
earth. She could not comprehend why
If by denying one belief---like weaslcs
1t obligingly disappeared, there IS
any reason she should not follow suit
and vanish into nothingness whenever
any spiteful healer took il into her head
to declare she was lie. DR.. Waddell's
theory, however. ascribeS reality to all
things. Though he regards the mater
ial world as phenomena OF spirit, he