The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-25
PALMIsTRY IS A SCIENCE.


Written for The Tribune.
Laughing eyes look into mine, and
girlish voice says: Yes, il is the cor.
rect thing to have your hand read, for
palmistry Is the latest fad"
To such, / answer it is not a fad, it is
science, old almost as Time himself.
Only the truly learned are able to grasp
it's truths.
Do not therefore visit an intelligent
cheirOmatist or palmist with the
thought that it is for amusement, a talk
with a charlatan, for which you should
feel a shame. Neither go with the i'm
preston that YOU are the solon of hu-
manity, and that your opinions are better
than years of patient study Believe
what YOU know to be true, and give care
ful analytical thought to the rest.
Imagine not for moment that the
lines in your hands are the tracings of
labor or chance, for chance occupies no
part in the work of infinitude.
Cheiro gives the impress OF hand only
"a hours old and yet the lines are a his
tory easily traceable from the cradle to
the grave.
Many n palm exhibits the square, rec
tangle star circle, rhomboid, but every
ones attention must be arrested by the
great superior angle, that the lines Of
the hand help to form with such mathe-
matiCal precision. IN these lines we have
the geometrical value of the hand.
Look again, and we have what may be
called its geographical value. Here is a
map of an unexplained world, the north
ern and southern hemispheres of human
ity The south, physical, animal matter.
The north, the cool, bright realms of
mind The equatorial dividing line, the
head line. The southern hemisphere in
some hands reminds us Of Emanuel Swe-
denborg, warm and frozen regions or
Wen say, "Plutonic shores" We find
here the tCrrid empire Of passions desire.
Bounding it, the temperate zone; next,
the Arctic cline. in which selfshness and
Indifference dwell in their frosty crusta-
ceans.
The higher north we ascend into the
cool regions of reason and philosophy, the
impression dawns that we are surely
drifting into tracings of the unseen. The
awe of infinite authorship envelops US,
and the soul goes out in one mighty peti-
tion for ability to decipher the strange
chirogphy of the wonderful page. In
stantly the words of Job, as they appear
in one of the best Hebrew translations,
come back to us God placed signs and
seals in the hand of man that all men
may know His work" Behold prejudice
has robbed this declaration OF its original
significant beauty, leaving only an exam
pie of ambiguity. "He seaieIn up the
hands of every man, that all men may
know his works"
Why the Latin church deemed cheiro-
nancy a shadow of paganism and visited
1t with cruel punishment, she must an
swer alone to Almighty God. 1t is hard
to crush a nation, hard TO crush an IN
dividual, but such are promised a resur-
rection, to destroy a science that has the
impress of the Creator Is like breaking
the tables of stone.
Far back in the misty shadows of for
gotten time, long before the Persian con-
quests. long before our Christ taught His
wonderful truths, palmistry read man TO
man. There came a time when the world
Scorned its teachings, but asks a re
nowned follower, "Was 1t any kinder ia
| its Christi" Only few strolling gypses
| originally perhaps Iindustan refugees
caught snatches of the great work, and
regardless of whip, rope or fire. sought
| to prolong existence by its prophesies,
Christ's teachings also were saved by
the poor and the lowly. and today, even
| today, they are the only ones. who crown
Him King of Kings.
| Cheiromancy no longer rests alone with
| the ignorant, or takes the low standard
of fortune teller" The world is begin
| ming to know there is not only a mystery
but a careful order in the lines OF the
| hand The best of palmists have not
| classified them all, but have the best OF
| our physicians arrived at stage when
! nothing<in materia medica is battling?
| From the little bulb springing from its
| earthly bed TO the great organic forces
| that compel the universe to move as the
| finger of God directed, is there a science
that has yielded up its every secret tC
inquring man? No, thousand times