The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-04

was by such means that DR.. Huber was
to find out about the grave subject of
isolating infectious disease.
An amusing account of an experience
meeting of the Christian Scientist is
given by DR.. Huber in the following
words:-"There is ar organ prelude, then
a reading from the Bible, after which
comes the reading of an extract from
Science and Health A discourse fol-
lows, several hymns are sung and
finally a number of people rise from their
seats and relate how they rave been
treated or in their opinion cured by
Christian Science!'
The pastors of these Christian Science
Churches are bediamcnded and handsome
ly dressed. They never go among the
poor, says the doctor, since it seems to
be a tenet of their peculiar faith that no
body has any business to be poor. Those
Christian scientists whom DR. Hube has
met have been wealthy people or people
in good circumstances. An odd feature of
the craze is hat to be a A"healer' in
Christian science, experience, learning,
training and brains seem to be entirely
superHuous. A child, says the doc
tor, can be a healer. No drugs
nor material substances are used.
You can treat a patient with
almost every bone broker in his body a
thousand miles off. 1t doesn't make the
slightest particle of difference whether the
patient tells the healer where he suffers
or what are his symptoms. The healer
employs some occult mental process;
tells the victim he is well. and there you
are. He may say he is not well, but
since the healer says so, of course he is,
and he is an ass if he thinks he's not.
Simple as rolling off a log.
By this beautifully simple process, says
DR.. Huber, the patients (well named) are
treated. Some are cured in one treat
ment, others require a longer time; in
fact, as they remain credulous, under
treatment before they are cured, or dis
couraged INTO seeking other methods.
These hea1ers even attempt to dissipate
juniors. cancers and surgical diseases by
this system!
An admirable illustration is given by
DR.. Huber of the treatment" in the fol-
lowing:-"For instance the patient Kate
has a cough and she is thus mentally adj
dressed, Kate, you are not sick and you
know it. There is no matter, therefore
matter cannot pain. You are a child OF
God. who gave you the power to govern
your present condition. But you are not
aware of it. Therefore, /, who manifest
God. I who reflect the Divine idea, I who
am a follower Of Christ, who said, Verify,
verify. I say unto you, the same things.
Which YOU see me do now those will do
that believe in me, and even more ]
who do not believe but know that nothing
can stand up before infinite mind, I say
that cough which troubles you must go"
And after that exordium that cough is no
longer a cough and Kate is herself again!
DR.. Huber says that Mrs. Eddy, the
mother of the craze, says that she can
cure anything and asserts that she healed
in one sitting a cancer which had eaten
down to the jugular vein. The worthy
lady doesn't trouble herself to supply for
investigation the names, addresses, etc,
of such cures. Mrs. Eddy cannot be ex-
pected to descend to such petty details
to satisfy the curiosity Of scientific men.
Turning to a presentation of cases
which DR.. Huber had personally investi-
gated he says that he wrote to every
physician who had acted on a patient be-
fore the latter had embraced the craze.
DR.. Huber's object was to see cases of
disease in which the structure of the or
gans was likely to have been involved.
ana his report Of these cases are OF pecu-