Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-02-07
'CHRAsTIAN SCIENCE HEALING
In HALEY.

by running fool.-wcll not all of them
fools, either-through her faith mill. |
We observe, by reading one of the
HALEY dailies, that many of the most
intelligent people of that section,
both Christian and infdel, are now
purchasing stocks in the faith enter
prise, at $50 per share, this being the
price charged for full course Of in
struction in the art. Imagination
and faith work wonders in the cure of
small ailments, no doubt, and this is
the foundation for the successful
working OF this so-called science heal
ing. Regular, practIclng physicians
thoroughly understand the art of en-
ploying this same Science healing"
as an aid in effecting cures. If they
can succeed in convincing their pa
tients that they are rapidly improving,
and that their disease is not at all
serious, the seeds of faith implanted
by the doctor will grow and bear
fruits of favorable imagination, and
as they metaphorically devour and
digest said fruits, the patients will
naturally show signs of actual i'm
provement, as result of the power
OF the mind over the body. This
science is probably IS old as that of
medicine, and has heretofore sailed
under the nom de plume of ''faith
cure" and "mind cure" Imagination
cure would be more expressive of the
nature of the medicine" employed
as dissipater of small ailments
The patients have faith in the powers
of the healer, and that's the secret oi
the "healer's" success. The editor ot
the Haley Times has been converted
and in a two column article, gives tt
his readers t'the articles of his faith,
and relates many wonderful cures.
The Times says Mrs. Rothrock is Wis
tied by from thirty to forty person
each day. That paper defines 'Chris
tian Science" briefly as ''the doctrin
) expounded and practiced by Chris
and his desciples," and asserts tina
it takes no cognizance of belief, an
| is equally applicable to Jew or Gen
tile, and is not antognistic even t
free thought, nothing narrow about il
: but free thinker, would, howeve
deny any direct interposition of tb
t Divinity, and call it ''mind cure
a Some of the miraculous cures record
: ed by the Times are as follows, col
densed: Mrs. Drum, Of Bellevu
had both legs paralyzed for thrt
years. After the "treament" 81
=. was able to get up and walk abor
Before starting in on this little di
sertation we casually and rather car
lessly scanned the two columns
It the Times, above referred to, al
p overlooked one cure, which our opti
1t this minute alighted on, that lea
Y the bounds of the miraculous, supe
natural, super-human, and even supe
~ Divine, aud we fell over backward
r. by the wonderful power of sudde
~ overcoming, resistless conversion, al
m we are now sorry that we have sa
+v what we have in the first part of tt
article, and would have thrown it
the stove-consigned it to the flame
Il but for a sudden, second thought tn
X addressed our sinner nature" in t
'S following language: "Don't do
W Items are scarce, and this would
q an extravagant waste of copy"
III YOU are a doubter as we were f'
Is minutes ago, especially if you are
III Boise Basin man, read what Is he
related, after steadying your ner'
I'M against the sudden shock of &C
a version. A Boise Basin man, nal
.ig suppressed, during the past thl
ep wears, has been confirmed inebrla
nd had frequent spells of jim-jams, a
on ran a menagerle on his own nc
ire that threw Barnum's animal show
to the shade. The following Is
rp- language of the Times, verbatim
,rv litsratim: "About week ago
rly was reported dying, and was clos
DIV watched all through the night-wh
ed was generally expected to be
last. The next day he was repoF
dead. Instead of this he was 500
oct to the general astonishmsnt-seen
the street, looking bright, chez
and SOBER. He had been take'
see Mrs. Rothrock! Yesterday he
for his home in "Old Virginny"
. is now over forty-fve, and has IL
a. in Idaho fully 20 years., and W
-, bidding E. E. Richards, Der