Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-03-04
DIVINE HEALING.


EDITOR NEWS: I have no wish to
interfere 10 any way with the re.
ligious work of Doctor Snelson OF
Grace Hill, but unless he and his
assistant prestidigateurs have II.
censes TO practice medicine they
} should confiue themselves TO their
Legitimate calling.
II 10 not within the province of a
doctor of divinity to pull live rab'
bits out of peoples hats, TO make
tables to dip, to write messages on
. states from the dead, to heal broken
: arms. to cure cancers by the laying
on of hands, or remove knots from
peoples necks by prayer and in
carnations.
If the reverend gentleman has a
diploma from a regular college OF
medicine then he has a right TO
practice his art, even though his
mind 10 a misfit, but for man who
Acknowledges that he is not suffi-
ciently up in anatomy to be able to
tell man from a woman after sun.
down is hardly capable of attempt.
ing to cure an acute case of ap.
pendicitius or broken limb.
Ishould not have replied TO the
reverend doctor had he not uttered
the threat in last weeks News to
take of his gloves and tear the
earth. / did not even know he was
a prestidigateur till he came out in
the paper defending faith healing,
but do say right here that any
man who practices necromancy
under the name of religion, or pre-
tends to heal the sick by divine in
terposition is a sacriligous fraud
and a violator of the laws of Kan.
sas. Divine healer? No! Divine
Humbug!
If any divine juggler will con-
vince me that he can lift an ounce
weight, or remove a carbuncle, or
cure an ordinary case of jim.jans
by supernatural means I will pay
him years salary. He may fool a
lot of old women who think they
have something the matter with
them, and he may work on the sus-
ceptible feelings of wormy child
rem, or he might possibly affect the
digestive organs of some of my
Popuiistic friends and induce them
to howl about "Imperislism," but
he can't atop the borbo rigimus or
diagnose q case of asinorum.
DIR. Snelson says this healing
business comes from the Bible, and
doubtless refers to the Witch of
Endor, but science has demon
strated that the Woman of Endor
who bilked Samuel has no more
power to heal than the Women of
Babylon who bilked one of our
notorious councilmen has power TO
save souls from damnation.
Now, Elder, don't you think you
had better keep your gloves on and
stick to the gospel work and let US
doctors who have diplomas prac.
tice our Legitimate calling? You
may be able to save souls If your
plan of salvation is of the Alec
pathic system and has the approval
of the Almighty, but you can't
take warts off a mans nose by
prayer, and you can't juggle cpl.
lepsy out of razor back hog by
singing psalms.
The days of witchcraft, and
ghosts and miracles, are past and
we are living in the age of electricity
and steam, and liquid air. and Is
inch guns. There was nothing mi
raculous about the destruction of
Montejo's fleet in Manila bay. 1t
was Dewey's breech-loaders, and
American science put them to
sleep; and the range finders of the
Oregon did the business at Santi-
ago. If you have a range finder
and carry l3-inch guns you don't
have to attribute all your victories
to Providence.
II is not the providence of God,
but lack of patriotism and pure
stubborn infidelity that caused
Naylor and Sam Smith TO sympa-
thize with Spain during the late un-
pleasantness. Let US all hereafter
attend to our Legitimate calling
and there will be no more clashing
II is our province to heal the sick,
and meanwhile we have no object
ion to your saving the souls of all
the squaw men in the Indian Terri
tory. HOBO.
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