Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-07


"Erom that moment, continues DR..
Rush, commenting upon the case IS re-
ported by his brother, che has been en-
tirely exempt from the govt; has never
had the slightest touch of it, and now
enjoys perfect health; has good sppe-
tie and says he Was never healthier in
! his life. To those who have been long
| accustomed to explore diseases 1 leave
the task OF developing the principles on
which this mysterious restoration from
the lowest decrepitude and bodily
wretchedness to state OF perfect heslth
has oeen accomplished. l well know that
'ooth.c1es, headaches, hiccoughs, ETC.,
are often removed by the sudden impress
sion Of fear, and that they return
again. But to see a debilitated
| equity frame instantly restored to vigor;
to see the whole system in moment, as
it we're, undergo perfect and entire
change and the most inVeterate and incu-
rable disease radically expelled, is surely
different thing, and must be acknowl
! edged q very singular and marvellous
event.If an old man ,languishing under dis
ease and infirmity, had died Of mere fright,
nobody would have been surprised at 1t;
bat that he should be absolutely cured
and his constitution renovated by it is
most extraordinary fact, which, while l
am compelled to believe by unexception-
able evidence, am totally at a loss to
account for"
That is not "faith cure" hear some
of you say. No; but it is still stronger
example Of the power Of mental impress
sion. OF the same class, and more akin
to the "faith cure" deception, are those
numerous, well authenticated cases OF
the cure Of scrofula by kings touch,
a1d hence the disease being so frequently
termed "Kipg's Evil" Browne Of Nor
witch, surgeon to King Charles II, pub
lished book called Observation-Disclosures;
or, A Treatise of Glandules and the Royal
Gift Of Healing Them" In it is the &C.
count Of case of a child told quaintly,
as follows:
A non-conformist child in Norfolk
being troubled with scrofulous swellings,
the late deceased Sir Thomas Browne of
Norwic ., being consulted about the same,
his majesty being then at Breds or
Bruges, he advised the parents Of the
child to have 1t carried over to the King
(his own method being used inefect-
ively) the father seemed very strange at
his advice, and utterly denied it, saying
the touch of the King WAS of no greater
efficacy than any other mans. The
mother of the child, adhering to the Doc
tors advice, studied all Imaginable
means to have it over, and at last pre-
vailed with her husband to let 1t change |
the air for three weeks or a month; !
this being granted, the friends of the |
child that went with it, unknown to |
the father, carried it to Brede, where the |
King touched it. and she returned home |
perfectly healed. The child being come |
to its fathers hou.e, and he finding SO
great an alteration, inquired how his |
daughter arrived at this health. The |
friends thereof assured him toat II be |
would not be angry with them they would |
relate the whole truth; they having his
promise for the same, assured him that
they had the child to be touched at Brede, !
whe eby they let him see the great benefit |
the child received thereby. Hereupon |
the father became go much amazed that |
he threw of his non conformity and ex-
pressed his thanks in this manner:
"Fsrewell 10 all dissenters, and to all
nom conformists. II God can put so
much virtue into the Kings hsnd as to
heal my child, I'll serve that God and
that King so long SIS l live with all thank
fulness."
Thus you see not only the child's health
was restored out the fsther's religion al
tered simply by the Kings touch. When
discussions arose, however, as to the
royal descent, and the Jscobites ques-
toned the "divinity" of the hereditary
right possesse by William III, and Anne,
belief in the efflcacy OF the royal touch
became shaken. and the confidence which
WAS necessary to accomplish the healing
was never restored. The last person roy
ally "touched" in England was Dr.. John
son, who in 1872, when only thirty
months old, had 81 Green Anne's
hsnds placed upon him. The Irish peas
sntry, however, when robbed Of this
dearly loved superstition evolved belief
that the power to heal scrofulS descended
to the seventh son in every family where
the msle brood he'd come into being with
out being interrupted on the part of
female child. | never could ascertain
whether the selection of the seventh son
rose from the simple fact that seven has
ever bee mystical number, or whether
1t was deemed that man from whose
loius seven sons had sprung bad made
such ample amends for those sins Of his
from which scrofula is sup
posed to have its hereditary being,
seven unto the seventh generation" that
he was entitled to some especial mark OF
divine favor. But certain it Is that even
at this day an in this country and in
this city the most intelligent Irish people
adhere to the belief that the seventh aoa,i
can cure scrofuls by mere touch aof the
hand. The only qualifying condltionsl
are that the patient shall be tre9ted onf
three Fridays before sunrise or afser sun
set, and that the seventh son shall re-
ceive no reward of money for his oct. 1
have known many apparently marvellous
recoveries effected by this sir gulsr dem
of the "fSith cure" idea.
Aud so 1t is with my Christian SCIENTIST
brethren. They may swear until they sre
blue in the face that the SUCCESS Of their
treatment does not require the CO.
operation Of their patients, but the fact
will ever remain that without that CO.
operation they can never achieve
success. The patient may even
oy voice refuse to have faith
n the system, but the impression is new
made upon the mind and thence
Upon the body.
But II these mental cures can be eff
= -.