The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-13
Harris, AmDutated Hands.

In the HERALD ofFeb. 9th, the Edi-
tor, unintentionally no doubt, made err
rOrs as pertains to the facts of the phen-
omenon connected with MIR. Harris and
| his detached members. He says "Mr.
Harris complained of his hands being
| buried in cramped condition, and
that If they were taken mp and adjust, d
to normal position very likely IL woulu
| afford relief"
was the person, and not Mr.. Harris,
who made the above suggestion, and
| my recollection is that l did so after he
| had infinitely described the sensation
of his amputated hands. After all the
| facts of the above phenomenon had
been related to and by Mr.. Harris, he
said: "I don't believe in any SUCH"
Thus you see, Mr.. Editor, you viii
have to tax to greater degree the
power you exercise in framing opinions
before you can entirely solve the Ihe
nomenon on the grounds of accident
and Imagination. 1t seems from the
verbage of your piece that you place the
sensational feeling of amputated limbs
VI Oh the ground of imagination.
presume there is not an authentica-
ted work on Physiology nor a practic
ing NJ. ID. who for a moment doubts the
sensational feelings of detached mem
bers of the physical body. And they 30
further, assigning a physical cause
Though think vague OF o. for SAID
sensations. The reading OF your piece
also madeythe impression on my mimi
that you always Or the surrounding
circumstances would .adnlit) solve al.
with your never failing and ever ready
cause "accident and negotiations"
am OF the opinion that you have fire.
quently noticed a dog howIing while
bell was ringing. L have. Why does it
do SOP What makes the window-pane
rattle when it thunders?
In acoustics we are taught that vi
Orating tuning-fork will start ano. n r
of the same number or pitch sounding.
l,x > 4 inc Il
your Intelligence would debar you
from giving 'saccident' or "imagina-
ton" either as the Immediate cause for
the solution of the foregoing phenom-
ena, if you ''had nothing 10 predicate
another on"
L think the dog and bell have unison
cords tuned to the same tention.
Hence when the bell begins to ring the
same tentiOned cord in Inc dog causes
MIN to howl; likewise with the other
phenomena.
AS am so intimately connected with
the detailed facts as delineated by Mr..
Harris, being the one who drew from
mis- lips the cramped condition Of those
detached members, suggested the pos
sibility of their being buried in
cramped condition, and ii they were
placed in normal condition he might
experience relief; those who are so in
credulous as not to believe that the
cramped condition of those severed
mem bers had something TO do with the
sensational feelings OF Harris, places
me in very supersLitious light before
thinking and Intelligent people.
Now friends, if believing in the re-
storal of cramped, amputated members
TO a normal condition is superstition,
then 1 am frank to confess to you that /
am greatly Linctured with superstition.
In as much as L hold that there can
be no faith unless predicated upon tes-
timony, it would be well for me to pro-
duce the witness upon whom j rely for
the fai tn l have in the matter under con-
sideration. But before examining the
witness l wish to remark that men are
differently constituted al regards de-
grees OF testimony las well as a great
| many other thingsl to carry convic-
tions to their minds. One example Will
suffice. Ten apostles could believe by
/ seeing Christ that he had arisen from
the dead, but there was one doubling
Thomas who mad to have the testimony
| of feeling by thrusting his fingers Into
/ the wounded hands and side OF the
| imaculate Jesus.
NV witness and grounds for belief is
some of the contents OF a scientific b.
brary, the writings, A. MILFORD Hall,
| p. II. ID. l.. L. and his CONDUCTORS.
Two examples out of the many will
suffice. 1St, Mr.. Stark, Sheriff of Pike
county, Mo-. had a broken arm ampu--
tated by DIR. Bartlett, and the detached
| member buried, as is usual In such
cases. Mr.. Stark complained of great
| pain in small finger of buried member.
Dir. Bartlett was called in and believing
that such suffering might be caused by
improper burial of the amputated mem
Der, took it up, Strengthened the finger
adjusted the member in natural posi-
ton and reburied it, when Mr.. Starks
| trouble was removed.
End, J. o. EJdridge, of San Francisco,
California, says. Fifteen years ago i
lost a leg and il was closely packed, in
casket, causing constantly terrible
pain. A good wife unknown to me sent
a faithful servant to arrange the ampu,,
tated limb comfortably in a new and
larger cask0t. The moment the leg was
llfandled / knew it, and the comfort be-
gan then and has never ceased"
Therefore [ think I had ample evil
dence to produce faith in me that par
ties having amputated limbs were in
some way mysteriousiy connected will
their detached parts. Hence | suRges-
ted to Mr.. Harris the possibility OF his
being relieved if his amputated hand
should be placed in natural and com
Portable condition. 1 believe the facts
in Mr.. II. condition Yerifies the posi-
ton that "theTe Is a sympathetic feel
ing between amputated limbs and the
person from whom they were taken
than electricity.p Therefore / thin K
your theory "imaginatfon and accident
is misnomer. Materialists tell US
there is nothing in the world but mat
ter and notion. DIR. Hall tells us there
is nothing in the world butAsubstance
and substaDceis divided into material
and immaterial substances. Platinum
iron, air, ETC., up to ordor are material
and magnetism, gravitatlon, SOUND
heat, ETC., mp to life force, are Inmate
rial substailces. All immaterial sub
stances are objective entities and JUS
as understandable as material substan
ces. Hence we lay down as our bnsis
Immaterial substances to- solve al
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