Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-11
ROAST Tor SCIENCE
Iowa Medical Journal Moved to Pay
Its Respects to Christian
Science Healers.
Recent Death Of harshalltown Man
While Under Rev. Roberts Treat
mont Occasions Criticism.
Journal Says Roberts is a Murderer
and That Marshalltown Has a
Duty to Perform.

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Below is published a medical view OF
Christian Science healing. and Incl
dentally scoring for Rev. K. G. Rob-
erts, of this city. The article reprinted
is from the editorial columns of the
Iowa Medical Journal, the leading pubs
licatlon of the state. The Journal says:
Frank Howell. q young man of Is.
died at Marshalltown of typhoid fever
and hemorrhage Of the bowels as a
complication about June 25th. He had
no medical treatment am was attended
by so-called preacher and Christian
scientist. The young man was treated
for belief that he was sick and was
kept at work and going about until
lhemorrhage OF the bowels ensued and
death took place. Although Roberts
maintained that Howell was not sick,
he signed the death certificate and
cause of death as 'hemorrhage of the
bowels The coroner's jury found that
Howell came to his death from typhoid
fever and lack Of medical attendance
while under the care of Roberts. who
was not legal practitioner. The find
ing leaves the matter open for the
grand jury or for the action Of the JUS
tees court.
cat Ft. Dodge. where Howell was
buried, the Scientists took charge of
the body, held the funeral and per-
formed the burial rites-thus killing one
bird with two stones-the science kill
ing him and the christian burying
him. This is perhaps the real meaning
of the term Christian Science. Now,
have we not had folly enough of this
kind? Can we have, in the name Of
Christ, such PROCEEDINGS in this TWEEN
tieth century?
Was Christ ever guilty OF such ido-i
otic proceedings? Did he ever say that
sickness was merely a matter OF be-
| lief?
"On the contrary He found Peters
| family sick OF q fever: He healed
many that were sick OF divers Diseases
a woman which was diseased with an
issue of blood twelve years touched the
hem OF his garment His injunction
was Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers;
He found leprosy on every hand; Lac
arus was covered with sores; Paul left a
brother at NIiletum because he was sick.
The book is everywhere full of ref
ernces to sickness, disease and death;
full OF references to the physician as a
| healer of the sick and of the healing
properties of plants.
Where in all sacred writ is there a
line which upholds this senseless jar
gon?
These latter day shysters say, oh.
Il no, it is all matter Of belief The
very existence of disease, of pain and
death are denied But the post-mortem
Ictr NIT n
NAL state. All the senses are asked to
stand aside; reason and Judgment, the
lessons from every day experience and
common sense, all count for nothing.
The pain-racked body. the gnawing
cancer eating the flesh from the bones,
the child strangling with diphtheria, all
are beliefs only and have no founda-
i ton in fact.
I'm the case of Howell how utterly
absurd the statement that the open
vessel from which his life blood was
slowly, surely flowing, had no exist
ence. Would 1t have been different,
would 1t have been less real, would 1T
have been more deadly, had it been his
A jugular instead Of a mesenteric vein
] which had been severed? Would 1t have
been a greater crime. more red-hand-
ed murder had Roberts stayed the hand
LOT the surgeon In the formercase than of
the physician in the latter? The same
principles apply to both. 1t Is an every
day experience that these hemorrhages
are checked by means well known to
EVERY physician, and, medicines failing,
the services of the surgeon may be
called in and the bleeding vessel tied.
But, no, there was no vessel bleeding.
though the red blood flowing showed
plainly to the eye that the statement
was lie.
But the eye must not be believed, the
brain behind 1t must refuse to receive
the image reflected to 1T from the
retina. Or. as the Rev. DR.. Parkhurst
says: Christian science insults the
reasonSand blackguards the common
4 sense. Che senses must not be be-
4 Asyed Instead we must accept the
II Hosk OF the divine Mother Mary Mason
Il BAfer Glover Patterson Eddy. whose
string Of names is sufficient evidence OF
her moral integrity and uprightness
but whose similarity still causes us to
note it's resemblance to that of an adj
yenturess.-her word must be accepted
Instead of the experience of the natural
senses which God has implanted in
every rational man.
Where does such reasoning lead us
see man thrust dagger into an
other, see the blade dripping with the
blood OF the victim; see the Christian
scientist ministering to the belief
which both the man and myself have
that he has been stabbed and that un-
less the stream is checked death must
be sure and speedy. l offer my services
and urge the necessity of immediate &C.
ton, but am informed that If do moi
think he Is cut and that he is bleeding
the man will at once be whole. Blot me
out of existence, leave the victim un,
conscious and insensible clay and the
Scientist alone with none other near
no other mind to believe the wound ex,
lsts-will the result be otherwise thar
fatal? Can the mouthings of foo
change the unalterable laws of fate?
Recently saw an infant with skull
badly fractured, the bone deeply de-
pressed. SO that an egg might be easily
placed within the depression. A Sci
enlist was called to cure my belief and
the belief which had inflicted upon thu
parents that the child was seriously in.
jured. For four days the child lay ii
the very shadow of death, while an In.
sane woman stood over 1t and said