The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-17

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these things any longer in the hands OF
q woman whom I did not know, and
in whose ability to successfully treat
mere disease / had lost all cor fdence.
My position was justified by the fact
that the cold and the ache had been in
her charge from the first, along with
the fracture s, but had experienced not
q shade of relief; and indeed the ache
was even growing worse aud worse,
and more and more bitter, now, prob
ably on account of the protracted alb.
etention from food and drink.
The horse-doctor came, a pleasant
man and full of hope and professional
interest in the case. In the matter
of smell he was pretty aromatic, IN
fact quite horsy, and I tried 10 arrange
with him for absent treatment, but
it was not in his line, so out Of efficacy
l did not press it. He looked at my
teeth and examined my hook, and said
my age and general condition were
favorable to energetic measures; there
fore he would give MT something to
turn the stomach ache into the bolts
aud the cold in my head into the blind
staggers; then he should be on his
beat and would know what to do. He
made up a bucket of bran mash, and
said a dipperful Of it every two hours,
alternated with q drench with turpen
tine and axle grease in IL, would either
knock my ailments out OF me in twenty
four hours or 30 interest MT in other
ways as to make me forget they were
on the premises. He administered my
first dose himself, then took his leave,
say ng I was free to eat and drink
anything l pleased and in any quantity
l liked. But l was not hungry ard
more, I did not care for food.
l took up the Christian Science book
and read half Of it, then took a dipper-
full Of drench and read the other half.
The resulting experiences were full Of
intereet end adventure. ALI through
the rumblings and grindings and quak-
ings and ef9rvescings accompanying
the evolution Of the ache into the bolts
and the cold into the blind staggers /
could note the generous struggle for
mastery going on between the mash
and the drench and the literature;
and often l could tell which was ahead,
and could easily distinguish the litera
ture from the others when the others
"oWn cnnnRnfo thNy1nh MT Whnn fhOu
were mixed; for when a bran mash
and an eclectic drench r mixed tC-
gether they lock jlst like the Apodis
tical Principle out on a lark, and no
n can tell il from that. The finish
was reached at last, the evolutions were
complete and a fine SUCCESS, but l think
56st this result could have been
achieved with fewer materials. I be
tieve the mash was necessary to the
conversion OF the stomGck-ache into the
bolts, but l think one could develop
the blind staggers out of the literature
itself; also, that blind staggers pro
duced in this way would be of better
quality and more lasting than any
produced by the artif 3ial process Of a
horse.doctor.
I believe it nigh be shown that all
the mind" sects except Christian
Science have lucid intervals in which
they betran some d%ifidencP, and in
effect confess that they are not the
"a lals of the Deity but il the Chris
tan 8 ienlis's ever stop with being
merely the equal Of the Deity it is.uo6
clearly provable by his Christian
Scit nee Amended Bible. In tie usual
Bible the D3ity recognizes pain, dis
ease and death as facts, but the Chris
tian Scientist knows better. Knows
better, and is not diff lent about lay
ing so.
V.
The Christian Scientist was not able
to cur my stomach ache and my cold;
but the horse. doctor did it. This con
viaces me that Christian Science
claims too much. In my opinion it
to let disease alone and conf1ne
itself to surgery. There it would have
everything it's own way.
The horse doctor charged me thirty
and I paid Ihim; in fact,
I doubled it and gave him a shilling.
Mrs. Fuller brought in an itemized
bill for a crate of broken bones mended
in two hundred and thirty four places
-one dollar per fracture.
Nothing exists but Minds"
"Nothiug," she answered. "All else
is subetRnc8less, all else is imaginary"