Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-01-20
THE FAITH HEALERS.
One OF the Reasons Of Their Success The
World Is DaCtored to Death.

W0rlG Is DHCtOre0 10 Death. !
St. Paul tMinn., Globe.l
Like all other preceding crazes
Christian Science is now having its
big run. The different sects of faith
healers, mind curcrs, God doctors, and
all the various methods for playing Oh
the superstitious are now organized
under the general head of Christian
Science, and an exceeding thrifty
business this new-fancled fountain of
health is doing. The business is prin-
cipally carried on by women, although
the men look after tho financial de-
partmept. Que man in New York
is said to derive an income of SEQ. 900
a year out of his Christian Science
institute, and a Brooklyn woman who
is eminent for her skill in making faith
pills pockets $4,000 annually. Look
ing at it in purely materialistic light,
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most profitable business in the world.
1t requires no capital, and the divi
dends are enormous.
The New York doctors are now
seeking to shut down on the faith
healers through the instrumentality Of
laws prohibiting these people from
practieing medicine aud endangering
the lives of people. n petition has
been prepared by the New York Med
ical society and is to be presented to
the state legislature, asking for the
appointment of commission compos.
ed OF doctors and lawyers to whom
this matter shall be referred. The large
number of deaths which have recently
occurred of patients who had submit
ted t., the treatment Of the faith heal.
ers has awakened universal desire
throughout the country to have some
Legislation protecting weak-minded
people from the fanatical faith curers.
Perhaps the greatest merit of the
faith cure treatment is that no medi
cine is given. The world is being
doctored TO death. Considering the
amount of strong drugs that is dump
ed into the stomach of the human
famiiy every year, it is a wonder that
anybody is living. A majority Of the
aches and pains that the human race
carries through life is from the effect
of strong medicines that have been
taken at some period in life. 1t is
possibly realization of this fact that
drives SO many people to the faith cure
treatment. 1t certainly cannot be
sustained on any other rational basis.
rhe element of religious faith does
rot, nor can it by any possibility, enter
into it. In the first place faith is not
a thing CT mon etary value. That was
demonstrated away back in the early
days Of the church, when an old Christ
ian Scientist stopped the apostles in
the street OF town where they were
preaching and offered them money in
exchange for the divine power of per-
forming miracles The stern rebukc
Of "thy money perish with thee" was
sufficient evidence that the apostles
did not consider faith as an article OF
commerce. In the next place, faith
power is not the result Of human edu-
cation, as these modern Christian
Scientists make it out They have
established Christian Science colleges,
where pupils are charged so much a
term, are graduated in the science Of
faith cure just as they would be grad
uated in law or dentistry. They come
out of these colleges with G. S tackled
to their names, which being interpret.
ed means Christian Scientist. What
sacrilege in the thought that God
wonld delegate his divine power to
mortals to aid in money-making
scheme!