Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-12-30
Dn. m,OHRsNRY ON rAIrn oURE.

The Dp0Akor oAlQ LQAt Nc ahu Ucon tuAucoA
10 prepare discourse upon this subject by
ths announcement Of q miracle in the secular
press Of Columbus, o. Soon after the alleged
miracle the person said to. have been cured
consulted . spiritualist doctor and then died.
The speaker knew the individual whose
miraculous restoration had been published In
the press dispatches Of the country.
About that time tho speaker received q
proposition to have two New York ministers
come to his church and hold a faith cure
convention.
These facts suggested that the pulpit had
. duty to perform. The subject Is very
practical one.
The speaker had no words Of irony for the
lAity, but would use great plainness OF speech
concerning theories and customs and pro-
fessed teachers Of religion who foster super
stitions or allow them, through silence, to
ripen their fruitsge.
Every vagary or imposition In matters OF
religion extans can be traced to someone who
Processes to be authorized as religious
teacher. Let the responsibility be laid where
II belongs. Human nature will cling to o
superstition with ss much, II not more,
tenacity than to the enternal veritles Of re.
vealed religion.
The text has been 80 widely abused through
false Interpretation as to demand q wide
range Of discussion. We shall and II neoes,
historical Christianity. and much that lies
outside of either. We shall need to speak
of that small class of modern evangelists
who, instead of going forth with the holy
Bible, 90 forth with the holy oil can.
Ceremonial oil belongs to the ancient jew
ish economy when prophets, priests and
Kings were anointed with sacred oil. When
the apostles were first commanded to use It,
they were under the Jewish law. As a SYM
IL - Is-l.r al 1v1rfv1
the apostolic age.
There lie no command or promise in the
New Testament looking to an apostolic sue
cession In ceremonial oil. The rite of ex-
treme JUNCTION In the Christian church was
not recognized by any church council until
the sixteenth century, when It was ordained
by the council of Trent which attempted to
silence all objections by anathemas. Mod-
ern Professionals, who have adopted the faith
cure and ceremonial oil, are on their way to
Rome without being aware of It.
There was medicinal value In oil which
the Apostolic age recognized. st. James
therefore taught the church of that age OF
miracles that its members should use the
remedies within their reach. ST. James said,
~ will show thee my faith by my works,
use oil incidentally when you need IL. DR..
Bushnell quotes In his Nature and the Super
natural the case of an Englishman who re-
jectsd remedies aud recovered.
An intelligent man will know how to
weigh such testimony.
Faith which rejects remedies and uses oil
ceremonially corresponds better with Lee
XIII, rather than with the teaching of st.
James.
With our great public school system, and
our colleges and universities, we can't gel
lsgislation sufficient to protect the masses
from quackery.
The status Of civilization can be deter
mined by observing how the sick are
treated.
The great masses of population of thi,
country are toilers without the means or time
for comprehensive information on the sub.
ject. The State owes an obligation to protect
suoh from all forms OF imposture. People
whose opportunities would lead to higher ex
peotations are caught FIRST by one craze and
then BY another. A hundred years ago DR.
Perkins of Plainfeld wrought thousands OF
cures by his metallic tractors of mysterious
metals. Omnipotsnt fatirons were all the
rage. Fifteen years ago 1t was blue glass.
Pemberton's solar-ray blue-g lass medium sure
cure. Ordinary glass lost caste. French plate
was ct discount. There was great activity
In putty. Men and women sat down behind
blue. glass to lot the illusion wear itself ont
on them.
Since that time there has been less doing
In blue glass and correspondingly more in
ecclesiastical salvation oil.
Schuyler Colfax said that error ceases to
Be dangerous when truth Is left free to COM
bat 10.
Not until the council of Trent In the 18th
century did any church council recognize
csremoniel oil.
Is csnons anathemat.s any who shall
dare 70 say tnat the OIL OF nesveniy virtue
dos not confer Rr,oe-nor seLeve the sio ..
% nC' s sn.u ia pIwsi ms ,v oei.eu -. sno ~.
Oh healing ex,steo only IN pas. sges-tn .s
council was thrown into CONFUSION over tne
no,y scs ousiness.
aou need not go 20 Africa 70 nnd super
eution. IN TINS country u taxes one pisnop'
twelve priests, seven deacons ana seven SUD
dsacons with . number Oh acolytea TO cast
the devil out OF olive oil and to MI IL with
nsavenly virtue.
Iais unctuoos soperstuon @ tne grown
OF tnoussno year,.
Ca,noho citizens VINO nave nAa un.IAm,
meled appearances ior eoucauon ana travel
and contact with American Ideas are grow
Ing impatient OF dictation. They arc In
vsstigating the constituent elements of holy
oil.
II We % Protestants expect to deserve and
to command the respect OF the inteiiigen,
public, We can anord 70 allow others 70 nave
Gomple.s monopoiy oI .ne Oh ous'ness.
~ isn't TAR ior rrotestants 20 interIef'
Win ING ilsnc a.. =, 'aS % T, slsshs,t
monopoly o. tno worid-tne EcctesiasticA
Standard OIL Company, with headquarters o.
Rome.
One Of the things which has contributed Il
this delusion Of faith cure 10 the condition o.
the medical profession.
A cynic said that In ancient times phys
ioians attempted to reduce medicine to
science and had failed, but IN modern time.
had attempted to reduce IL to Q trade anc
had succsedsd.
The medical profession ID degraded oft.
times by men who know nothing Of the sci
encs, but who follow the trade. In Cincin
natl. O., there 10 Q yitapathic health insti
tuts, where the president, after two months
Of instruction and q fec of 500, graduate
vitapsthic minister physicians and goe
through solemn form OF ordination AM
commands the graduates TO heal the sick
| raise the dead, commune with angels an.
| make humanity immortal, and closes nj
farce with formal benediction. Quaker
must DO mixed with religion to make IL take
| Three years ago the dean of the Columbu
| Medical college showed the speaker . lette
| from 8 physician practicipg in Californis
That physician had no diploma, he wa
anxious to come to Columbus and get on,
he wrote the dean that he had taken Nv
full courses of lectures. How do you I'm
sgine that he spelled the word fulll F-o o
full, and yet he was practicing medicine
California.
| Do You wonder that some good people 1
i despair cast themselves upon God in bin