The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-07
THEOLOGTCAL AND MEDICAL.


 As Dr. Harwood so interestingly showed in the remarkable historical discourse recently delivered by him.
 the theological hate which formerly abounded in and between the saints of this region has died out. Such a change has come that Episcopalians are welcome in Yale college, Episco- palian clergymen can hire houses in New Haven to live in If they want to, there is an Episcopalian meeting house on the Green in close proximity to the historical meeting house where the fiercest theological hate once burn ed, the Episcopalian church whose head quarters are there is, we believe, the richest church in the city, and every body acknowledges that the Congrega- tional road is not the only one that leads to Heaven Many, moreover, aver that the Episcopalian road is safer and more pleasant than the Congregational road, and some even turn up their noses little at those who are con tent to travel in the Congregational road and thus miss the color and the dignity and the style of the Episco- palian way. And they do this without getting into the stocks or without even mourning social or business ostracism.
 But while this wonderful change from the old theological hate has been taking place in New Haven, there has not been, we grieve to say, the same wonderful change in another kind of hate that still f1ercely burns here. The different schools of soul-healers have buried the hatchet, and we are not sure that some of their members do not occasionally smoke the pipe or the cigar of peace together But the different schools of body-healers are still as far and as fiercely apart as were the Congregationalists and the Epis- copalians in 1750 We have just had an illustration of the situation in the re- luSdl ol 5Olle OI ll6 Olu-SCHOOl uOctOrS l to instruct some young women who | need instruction because a new-school | doctor has instructed them. Of course | the new-fangled medical notion looks | as ridiculous to the opponents of the | old notion as Episcopalianism looked | to the Congregationalists of 1750 But now, as then, there is a perverse genera tion and the new notion is growing in popularity. So much so that some of it's professors are able to live in and own ceiled houses and drive as good nags as those who continue to prac- tice in the old way. Of course it is all very ridiculous. Like cannot cure like, and different can surely cure different Those who are doctored in the new way will die and those who are doctored In the old way will not But what can be done? The people of New Haven are now going to Heaven by several different routes The oldest route of all, and the one which was once the only route, Is falling into disuse. But everybody has accepted the situation and polite ness and forbearance reign where there were once rudeness and intoler- ance So it may be in regard to med- cine by and by, and in the year 21OO a historian may make himself inter- esting by telling how the doctors fought each other in the days of old before 1t had been fully learned that there were several more or less legitimate ways of dying. In the meantime let us hope that young women who need ( in the care of babies will get 1t from some source.