The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-18
TELLING AN EXPERIENCE.
A Note of Warning Especially TO Our Invalid
Members


KIND H. l. c. FRIENDs-As our highly
esteemed H. L. c. sister, MAUD Maple,I
actuated by the best of motives, has called
the attention of invalid members to an
article on the eighth page of THE SENTI-
MEL published April Is, viz: Power of
the Mind" the perusal of which may in
duce some of THE SESTINEL's invalid
readers to try the wonderful healing
power of the mind but to be disappointed,
I have thought best to sound a note of
OF warning by giving the bitter experience
OF an esteemed invalid friend, A copy
from a letter dated May Z, 81, as follows:
Sixteen years in bed how hard l have tried
20 get cured - tried everything, even the
HChristau Science"
/ first became interested in the Mental Sci
bnce through reading the VS. Express
through your kindness and felt that / must
study IL, but could not comply with VS.
terms for a course of treatment. So having a
cousin in Philadeip his, Pa, who was cured by
il, he was anxious they should have my csse,
90 In February OF 1890 put myself under the
"Chrisuan Science" treatment with all faith
and hope of being cured.
Having been ensnared as il were through
beautiful inspiring literature which they send
out telling you that through its study your
whole being is flooded with light and truth.
What strange deceptiOn-when you come TO
realize that what they call truth is simply de-
NAL OF truth fnr truth to my mind is true
reality of things. They teach you to ignore the
senses in ali things as being the voice OF the
devil.
For six months 1 strove hard to do as the
healer commanded me. Keeping my mind on
the one thing alone it finally gave me such dis
tress of mind that | could not sleep at night,
for il was like condemnation to feel that God
could cure me and would not.
Fortunately a friend, who had studied the
scienee came to my relief and told me il was
ali wrong-wrong to keep the mind God
alone and that His love was so great that He
could not oandemn me for not getting cured,
and he thought the science did much more
harm than good.
There are cases, believe, hypochondriacs for
instance, that are cured by il. Altogether it Is
very un-Christ-liks-
Such has been the experience of this
afflicted lady friend who is as anxious for
the sweet boon of health as any mortal
may be, and yet, though her home is far
away in the land OF flowers, where the
roses bloom by her window through the
whole or nearly the whole OF the wear,
who can tell how much longer she must
lin0er on and suffer. longing for the sweet
boon of health longing for strength TO go
out into the sunshine and look upon the
ever-varylng beauty OF nature; longing to
be of use in the affairs of the world and
minister to the comforts and pleasures of
kindred and cherished friends.
l would be glad if panacea for all the
file to which flesh is heir might be found,
but, though the demand is all that could
be desired, fear that it will be long
time before this demand will be met.
And has not this demand been in exist
ence through long ages of the past? As
long ago a. when Nero lived, Seneca wrote
that there were as many diseases as dishes
or kinds Of food, and they were many.
With thorough knowledge of the laws
of life-phvsiology, magnetism. clairvoY.
ance and kindred sciences, it would seem
that balm for the relief of human suffer
ing aud affection ought TO be found, or a
course of life laid down that would lead
away from all afiiiction and human suffer
ing. But whatever degree of relief may
be gained will accord with reason and re-