The evening times., 1899-01-23
Credit to Every Honest Man or Woman

healer" departed to continue the next
day and effect a cure within week. The
healer" stating that the laborer is
worthy of his hire received fee of So,
and the woman is still blind.
Another physician cited a case wherein
the mother of child in this city was pre-
vailed upon TO allow a healer TO cure
her child of diphtheria. The healer
told the child that it should not allow
matter TO control mind, for disease was
less than mind and then threw out all
the medicine in the room.
In the meantime the microbes accumu
| lated in the child's throat and in two days
the child was dead. This physician asserts
| that had a little antitoxin been used while
the healer" was trying to convince the
child that it was not sick. recovery would
| have been almost certain.
| Another recent case in the District was
| that of man suffering from typhoid fever.
A healer promised to cure the case and
| cast out all medicines argued with the pa
c1ient that he had imperfect faith and was
not at all sick got him out of bed and the
patient lived four hours.
| 1t may appear ludicrous, but Christian
! Scientists hold in all earnestness that they
| can set the bones in a broken leg by
praying and convincing the patient that
| the leg Is not broken, but that he, the pa
tient, only thinks it is broken. Consump
| tlOn Is also cureQ DN the Deilel tHdl the pa
| tient has not got consumption.
/ II is in such matters that the Christian
| Science borders on fanaticism and becomes
| a terrible menace to the sick. Nor is this
| ALL Here are the words of a prominent
| local healer and a leader in the local
Church of Christian Science. Col. Nat Ward
| Fitz Gerald: Christian science proves the
| nothingness of matter. 1t annihilates space
| and distance We can heal a man in Cali
| ly- oh hp n
Washington. We can heal a man with a
broken limb who is in New York, although
| we remain in Washington.
This is TO say that if you break your arm
while in London, cable TO healer in
| Washington. and he will take your case
| and heal your limb.
| These are strange assertions, and but
show the need of some controlling legis-
| lation say the physicians. And the peo-
| pie who now scorn such statements as the
| above allow these "healerS TO practice
| upon their fellow beings.
One case is cited from Chicago wherein
the members of family were terribly
| burned during a fire. The flesh was ut
| erally roasted from their bones and
healer was called in The healer" be-
| gan trying TO convince the sufferers that
| they were not burnt, but only thought they
| were burnt and exhorted them to believe
that they were enirely without pain. Dur
| ing the eyhortations the sufferers died In
| agony.
| should Pass Examinations.
Physicians claim that all schools of
| medicine are regulated by laws and that
a severe examination must be passed be-
fore physician may practice. The heal
ers" are entirely ignorant of medicine and
anatomy, claim the physicians, yet they
practice daily, promise to cure diseases
and demand fees. The fees OF healer"
in this city are 50 per week.
The history of the faith cure is brief
Probably the original healer was VAL
entine Greatrakes, an officer IN Crom-
wells army during the seventeenth cen
tury. Greatrakes gathered together the
wounded after each battle and by much
shouting and exhorting tried to convince
them that they only imagined they were
wounded Greatrakes lasted but a short
| period as his patients managed to die Ill
in great numbers.
In 1866 a Mrs. Mary B. Eddy appeared
in Boston announcing that she had dis
covered Christian Science. She then pen
ned book which is now the Bible OF the
Church of Christ Science. This book con-
tains all directions for Christian Science
practice and healing, and is the materia
medica of this school of healers. A few
| extracts from this Bible, written by the
inspired prophecies out of Isreal," make
interesting reading.
Disease is less than mind and mind
can control it. Christian Science lets the
dead bury its dead.
.It has no use for drugs or doctors. 1t is
the second coming of Christ. 1t is a war
fare with the flesh. 1t denies matter. It
robs disease of all reality.
Every disease is but belief. By lift
ing the mind you destroy disease. Man is
never sick, for mind is never sick and mat
ter cannot be. Exclude from mind the be-
lief of sickness and the body cannot suffer.
| If you are injured, your remedy is at hand.
Mind decides whether or not the flesh shall
be painful or swollen and inflamed. Never
suffer the illusion that you are sick.
'If your patient believe that he has a
cold, mentally convince him that matter
cannot take cold. If the patient suffer
with the belief that he has fever destroy
the unfortunate belief and you end the
fever. Palsy is belief that matter at
tacks mortals. Destroy the belief and You
will cure the palsy
Vegetables and minerals suffer no pain
in multiplying, but human propagation has
its woe because of its belief"
Equipment of a Healer.
With 663 pages of such a textbook the
healer is fully equipped and goes forth
to heal suffering mankind. A belief in the
utter uselessness of material remedies is
, required, and nothing more.
, The people demand the passage and en-
forcement of such legislation as will curb
these healers and control them. A severe
board examination would have its effect
but at present the "healers" are response
BILE to no man. -.E8.as asv
Many of the States have laws prohibiting
the Christian Scientists from Rracticing
their healing powers and a number of the
New England States have laws exempting
the healers. In the District, however
they are free to act, and the movement for
regulating legislation is very strong.
In January, 189S the Christian Scient-
lists were prohibited from practfcing in
| PennsyIyania hy the decision of Judpe