Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-08

and then he could not help me very much,
but tEis time my mother and my husband
were a,2ne with me- My baby was only
seven days old when got Up ard dressed
ard left thy room aid STAYED uD all dav."
such cases is not the homeopathic law,
like cures like, "more honored in the
breach than the observance?' In the Faith
Cure, however, the trust may possibly
more than offset the visual and other
sense impressions; though it is whispered
that as large a proportion of faith patients
die as of allopathic or of any other per-
suasion.
When exiled invalids flee to Denver or
Pasadena, only to die there, those still try
ing to recruit in that rare atmosphere
may well ask, Cui bono?
And what of the Spiritual Temple, that
marvel of wealth and beauty, plump in
the middle of Boston's blue-blOod domain?
How many more would worship therein
if there were no overlooking Mrs. Grundy
or il the attendants could but dematerial-
ize themselves long enough to make un-
seen exits and entrances. In this temple
preachers claim to deliver sermons while
cntranced--under such control of departed
spirits as leaves the speakers no remem-
brances of their utterances land this under
the very shadow of the Old South and
Trinity Shall these preachers reap what
they SOW if not themselves really the
sewers, but for the time being the tools
of the dead who are using the mediums
for their own plans, and manifesting
themselves through their subjects even
to tricks of speech and memory? Shades of
ho I,,Iri in1
acoustic properties of this costly temple
due to the fact that you, with your spec
tral fingers, fashioned its dome and au-
ditorium9 And who would not wish, if
such were true, that architects of other
public buildings in this city of learning
might come under the same influence.
Yet would not this be a species of reincar-
nation? Alas How can we poor mortalS
be sure who is who and what is what?
Then there is the Christian Alliance,
by whom the prayer-cure is practlsed,
meeting such alleged success that the
miracle is, not that the people are healed,
but that there are any inyalids left Heal
ing is the fashion, the rage, and the city
teens with clairvoyants, who know 1t all,
seventh sons of seventh sons persons born
with Il caul, wonders at least to them
selves: astrologers who, if they do net
actually believe they guide "Acturus With
his sons,' are sure they can guide those
who come to ascertain under what plan
ctary conjunction they were born, and so
make them miserable for the rest OF their
lives. 1t is written that Joshua at one
time spoke with command to the sun
and moon Astrology reverSes the ancient
order, and has the planets rule mortalS.
All these healers heal, and conduct
themselves as though to them the sphinx
had privately spoken, declaring lie
mystery solved. What matter if most OF
them murder the kings English, If they
can only smite the Kings evil
Verify, it doth appear that these heal
ers these suggesters of ideals, these vot-
aries of the retfna cure, these prophets ana
wonder workers, are not emptylng, but
helping to crowd our asylums and keep
the regular physicians hands full OF
work. Meantime the Psychical Society, by
its Investigations, puts premium on
disagreeable and uncanny phenomena, for
getting the wise suggestion, = Ii there be
any things of good report, think on these
| things. - The efficacy of the maiden ;
vision Mt Iourt,es still draws believers
| to wash i'm the waters of that place, no
matter how ulcerous the patient last I'M
! merged. and bottles of the fluid are
| thereafter sent TO Boston to be used in
small portions. and good results are
| claimed thcrcfrom. The Boylston street
| hvnnotic doctors meanwhile are doing
| thcir hest to see how many normal sub
| iects they can enticc into the abnormal
| sleep. Oh. for the dignified Boylston
| street of the past which began Liberty
| Tree Block and ended with the Public
Garden, What spirit of witchcraft has
/ reincarnated itself here? Alas for Boston
The literal burning at the stake of
some faithful lineman, doing his perilous
| duty. is too familiar q spectacle now to
| arouse comment or Investigation; but
i the mad passion increases for a tad,
| cult. a trance.a spook Why not hereafter
nose. not as cultured Boston, not even as
| intellectual Boston, but as hypnotizeti
| Boston, When this fungous growth
| shall overshatiow Boston's staid old phil
osophv and Puritan ideas, and the brains
which can conceive and portray a Trilby
and n Svengali have become common pro
perty. who shall say that Marion Crawford
/ * wrong. when he foretells the possibility
of summoning Heine. Chopin and Cicero
! from the Vastly deep by turning the switch
| of a dynamo! Let us grid ourselves for
| the new glorics close upon us. The dead
will enter into the great lamboric. No
body will be anybody in particular, but
we shall all be somebody else.
| Out ON identity and individuality
Matter will be mind and mind will be
matter, and gods cabbages. Parsees
and Yankees will be all of a kind. Deity
and humanity will be interchangeable
| individualities, and after us-the Dcluge.
Josephine c. Woodbury..
Boston. 4lo Newbury street, Nov. |, 1894.