Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-04
HAHNEMANN AND ST. JAMES.
DIR. Bell Says He Consistently Followed
the Precepts of Roth.


New YORK, July 3.-Dr. James Il.
Bell OF Boston was not expelled from
the international Hahnemannian AsSo-
citation at its Convention, held at Mar
ragansett Pier on June 81, and some OF
the members OF this association are In
dignant because the Board OF Censors
was not allowed to report on the charges
made against him.
Dr. Bell is a wellknown homeopathic
physician in Boston. he was President
of the Hahnemannian Association last
year, and few days before the Conyen-
ton assembled it became known that
charges had been preferred against him
on two general counts.
The first was based on an address
made by DR.. Bell before the Christian
Alliance in Boston on the subject or d.
vine healing. Those who were opposed
TO DR.. Bell asserted that in this sermon
he advocated christian science" and
the "faith cure" contrary to the dec
laration OF principles of the association.
The second count was based on the
statement that in his practice at the
Massachusetts, Homeopathic Hospital
he hao used the Surgean's knife In
thirty-four cases where the disease
might have been cured by medicines.
This is contrary TO the traditions OF
homeopath. The Hahnemannian AS
sociatjon is an nffshoot of the Ameri-
can Institute Of Homeopathy, and was
organized in 1880.
Since the Convention some OF the
members have declared that the associ-
alton, in its desire TO suppress the
charge against DR.. Bell and avoid dis
sensions, rode rough shOd over the con-
stitution and all its precedents. The ac-
tion of the Convention and DR.. Bells
defence were made public yesterday.
Or. Bell, in defence OF the charge that
in his address at the Park Street Church
in Boston on Divine Healing from a
Medical Standpoint" he advanced
ideas that were inconsistent with the
principles of the Hahnemannian home-
opathy, says:
"Divine healing is religious teach
ing held by small minority in the
church universal in all the centuries,
and always and only by those who are
truly orthodox in their general belief,
and especially In the last quarter OF
century by larger company in all the
churches who are looking for the per-
sonal return Of the Lord Jesus Christ to
set ND the kingdom OF God on earth.
In practice it consists simply In
chewing James. ", Ii: rs any sick
among YOU? Let him call for the Elders
of the church, ard let them pray over
him. amounting him with oil In the name
OF the Lord; and the prayer OF faith
shall save the sick, and the Lord snail
raise him up 1t is, therefore, an APP
neal directly TO the Author of homGop-
athy and OF all good for his personal In
tervention, without the use OF any
means whatever. Like all Gods gifts
it is free to all who can receive it-with-
out money and without price"
DIR. Bell says that "Divine healing" Is
not a system Of medicine, it is not scien-
tihc. it is no rival to homeopathy, and
il is very different from Christian sci
ence."
"My address," continued Dr. Bell,
twas given before a religious meeting,
upon what IS, TO those who hold It, a
strictly religious subject, but to which
I believe IL to be my right as pro-
fessional man to lend the weight OF my
professional name: that the weak faith
of many, suffering from incuraole
chronic disease, might be strengthened
in abandoning, as most OF them had
done, allopathic dosing and drugging,
and IL you look at my address you Will
! see that a large portion OF 1t is devoted
to persuading the hearers that it is far
better to give up this allopathic dosing,
even If they have no faith in God.
"But some OF my colleagues have In
| fetred, / think, that was abandoning
homeopathy and practising Divine
healing. This might be true IL what
defended was Christian science, but, as
already explained, healing In answer 70
prayer does not belong TO physicians or
! to healers, but to the church, and 20 the
elders, presbyters, or deacons, end as
am neither one OF these,
am not competent. And besides
this. an devoted, with the
whole enthusiasm Of my nature, as
have been for thirty-three years, to the
study and practice of pure homeopathy,
with an ever increasing love OF 1t, and
confidence in it, as one OF Gods best
gifts to man, on the natural plane.
DIR. Dillingham; said that there was
now harmony in the association, and
that there was no foundation for the
rumor that the organization would De
disrupted as result OF the Narragan-
sett Convention.