The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-03-14

are trying to make things lively for
him. For as Oliver Wendell Holmes
said, "you need never think that you
can overturn any old falsehood without
terrible squirming and scattering of
the horrid little population that dwells
under it."
| Julius" speaks Of Doctor Dowie's
proselytes to the religion of Christ as
trying to satisfy their "abominable
cravings of the SOUL" Why, Doctor
Dowie breaches the establishment of
Purity in the Home, in Business and
Pleasure and as consequence a pure
and holy conception of God, for God
and Purity cannot 60 separately. If.
| that is an "abomnable craving" the
quicker people get it everywhere, the
near were wilibe to the millennium, and
for one advocate that everybody
hurry up and get itand above all get
1t strong. But want of space forbids
me entering into panegyric of the
Doctors teachings.
| Now listen to Julius" pleas for the
poor prosecuted (?) physicians. "Can
you" says he, conceive of soul more
| nude, more void of all it's true functions.
than the soul that finds delight in
placing one of life's greatest blessings
into the hands of modern Herod,
away from loving hands and kind
physicians to minister to its purposely
starved and diseased body, to die in
agony and filth?" Great Leviathians
and little fishes, hear him! ''Kind
physicians. why there are hundreds of
thousands dying almost daily under
these "kind" gentlemen and their sskind"
treatments and hardly a murmur is
raised to question whether these physi-
clans are anything more than men;
and If they are in reality only men then
they are fallible and not to be trusted
any more than other people. You can
hardly pick up newspaper nowadays
without reading about the mistakes
causing misery and death made by
these "kind physicians" Besides ply
sicians do not cure people, for DR..
Benjamin Franklin our Yankee states
man and truly an eminent authority,
said, "God cures while doctors ask for
the fees" The great Professor Blackie
of Edinburgh said, "medicine is not
science, it is purely an empiricism."
Prof Magendie, the great French
physician, whose experiments and
teachings are recorded and scattered
all over the globe, addressed the stu
dents at the Paris Medical College in
the following language: "Gentemen,
medicine is q great hunabug. 1t is
nothing like science. I grant you
people are cured, but hoaC? Nature
does a great deal, bat doctors do decizish
little. " Doctor James Mason Good, a
noted author, says: "7'he science of
medicine is q barbarous .jargon and
the effects Of oar medicines i,s the high
est degree unsatisfactory, e:ccept, indeed
that they haze destroyed more Hces than
aoor, pestilence and famine combined"
l can truthfully say that 1 can give
dozens of other quotations from the
most eminent physicians and doctors
in the world just as condemnatory in
their tone as these here quoted. l do
not believe everything Doctor Dowie
breaches, but l do believe that he is
doing grand work in exposing all the
shams and hypocrises that disgrace
modern society. He is modern John
the Baptist or St Paul with many of
the characteristics of the latter and
using the same burning, scourging
language that the Christ used; and as
in Christ's time it hurt the society
"fim-fams" so it cuts them in the same
way today. Raises their choler? Makes
them warm under the coat collar =?
Certainly it does. Did you ever hear
of effective protestation against wrong
that did not warm some one up? II
never did. So the best thing "Julius"
can do is to learn something about
the Reverend John Alexander Dowie
before he again attempts to criticise
him. For he is not only Man, but
he is good Man and no higher praise
can be given to any male human being
than that. ZoLL.