The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-04-28

Of acute Brighte disease. Inefe stooc
by Lyman at the very supreme mo.
ment one OF the most distinguished
trained physicians then living in this
country. William A. Hammond was
his name: at his command was the in
stantaneous use of tons OF drugs: the
doors OF every drug shop were thrown
open TO him. Did he save life? Where
is Dan Lyman? Did he prolong The
useless life before him? Not even for
the fraction OF a second. Look back
then at this Journal writer's folly
HAD Osgood called a trained physician
he might be still alive"
Lives there a man today. be he a
trained physician" or whatever other
name you please to call him. who can
lengthen the life OF one sick with this
terrible malady. at the supreme mo-
ment? No. not one. nor has sucn
man ever lived. Why then write such
nonsense? How can Christian Sci
ence healer" hasten the death OF a
man" we do not see. since he uses no
drugs or other fatal agencies-yet so
the Journal teaches.
Today in the Osgood case this pro-
found editor urges at once coroners
inquest. Did Il urge coroners inquests
i'm the cases of Anthony or Steere? Well
hardly. but how near did ii come TO just
that. but not for the same cause. in the
Lyman case. Could we but print what
the Journal editor talked that day con-
cerning this Lyman. the whole commun-
ity would be shocked. and we'll IL might
De. for the talk was shocking.
Never did any writer betray greater
ignorance OF the springs of action
which lie beneath the operations OF the
human mind than do these writers up
on Christian Science In Journal. As
relief for the ills from which all men
suffer. no remedy exists. at all compar-
able to the human mind: no anaesthet-
ic is at all its equal. No honest ''trainsd
physician" ever practices with his
drugs without first using /this subtle
influence; he well knows that his drugs
are only used in oraer to make the pa
tient think they operate; he plays with
time. while his patient lives. or dies as
nature foreordains.
The Journal writer's damn the Chris
tian Science healer because he uses
those very mental powers of his patient.
without the deadly drug, wherein lies
the sense in such damnation?
J., is useless 10 waste ink upon such
reasoning as we have exposed. But
upon one more point we will touch.our
profound contemporary speaks of the
Christian Science las one OF the great
est superstitions that ever afflicted man.
kind" The other is. and has always
been. the practice, of what is called.
medicine. The greatest frauds are even
now in daily use everywhere around US;
were We TO expose them. every train
ed physician" in town would hide his
very head In shame; he practices them
because he Is not exposed, and men gen.
orally like those who write those silly
things for the Journal. are ignorant.
senseless abuse. by any Journal,
based upon barefaced misstatements Of
well know fact can not prevail. Never
was there any great reform, In this
worlds affcirs which has not encount-
cred il, but IL is not necessary for tn
News to set itself up as the defender
of the Christian Scientist. He
can stand upon his feet without
our assistance. III he Is ever~to be
destroyed by reason. or by argument, 1t
must be by no such stun as the Jour
nal has been giving us. Let us suggest
TO these writer's to use their invective
against another enemy. President
Faunce of Brown University. This very
distinguished and very honest man,
thus writes: Having set forth the
philosophy of this subject, We see that
the Science is indeed tangled maze.
i have myself known persons to be
healed of long-standing disease
through the Science and have
known other disciples of this faith to
die i'm agony. refusing all aid A few
conclusions of my own i may mention
First, this new doctrine, il II be new,
must have some truth In il because of
it's fruits. Jesus gave his disciples
power 10 heal. That power has never
been evoked. 1t will not do for tneo-
logians or historians quietly to assume
that Jesus meant such power 10 fade
with lapse OF years. or vanish at the
end Of the third century. Men Will he
lieve either that miracles are contin-
uous throughout the history OF Chris
tlanity or that they never occurred in
the Christian church. No middle
ground is logically possible. 1t Is alb
solutely certain that hundreds OF men
and women i'm this country have re.
| ceived in the healing OF their diseases
a demonstration that there is a fun
| damental truth in Christian Science
Beholding the men who are healed. We
must beware how we declare ourselves
against it. Even though many have
| died while hoping to be healed: ever
though many have forsaken the faiti
| they once held. a marvellous number NJ
cures are being daily performed. II
Is easy 10 pronounce this Satan's work
But the work Of Satan j. to bind. mo-
loose. men"
1 Tho rh,tstfap Cnfkosist.