The Sunday globe., 1901-05-26
The Juicy Graft of ex-InSurance
Agent Sabine.
FAITH CURE NICKEL IN THE SLOT
Row in The Church and The Expulsion Of Dean
John Turner for Lack Of Faith The Coorsd
Class Of Lambs and The White Wolves in
Sheep S ICIOthing-A Rich Practice without
Fee Or License and Call for a Reputation.

leCIuIeu AT llln ana ~ streets, turned
the batteries of his wrath upon some of
his recalcitrant brethren of that faith,
who have backslided or who are irrey
erent enough to doubt the mission of
Mr.. Sabine to rake in all the fees for
faith healing" and, by the way, these
fees are fast making Mr.. Sabine rich
man.
1t is recalled when Mr.. Sabine made
his first bow to the public of the Capt.
tai City of the Nation, as a lightning
rod man, or an insurance agent, we
forget which, nor is 1t important, as
the thing didn't pay and Mr.. Sabine
threw it up in disgust
He had a little better luck as one Of
the coterie who conducted the publica-
tion known as the "SilUer Knight" but
here, too. the sheckels were slow in
coming in, and Mr.. Sabine was again
filled with "a long felt want" for more
lucre and less work.
He suddenly discovered that Mrs
Eddy, the high priestess Of this cult
had no patent on the fake and he set
up a rival church CD and began with
out license Nor fee, the laying on Of
hands-on the money Of large and in.
creasing clientage Of patients, who
had or imagined they had ills which
could be cured by the ex-lightning rod
or insurance solicitor. Among the
number Of his converts and colleagues
no one stood so high or so near the
throne of Mr.. Sabine as John H. Tur-
ner, well and but for this episode in
his life. favorably known to thousands
Of Washingtonians. Mr. Turner, who
was formerly secretary Of the Farm
ers' Alliance, soon became a dean in
the Sabine church and until his partial
paralysis was a firm believer in the
faith cure and Sabine hams-we mean
hands. Mr., Turner suffered and suf-
fered and Mr. Sabine massaged and
massaged, but the patient and dean of
the church got no relief. Finally the
idea struck Mr.. Turner that he had at
one period of his life, and before al.
lying himself with Mr.. Sabine, heard
that electricity was often tried with
success on his particular ailment.
Now. despite his faith in the rival OF
Mrs. Eddy aud the exercise ct The main
tenets of the Sabine religion, viz: to
imagine there was nothing the matter
with him, Mr.. Turner secretly at first
and when relief was experienced, open
~ at last applied the electricity and
followed the other instructions of
regular physicians prescription. Mr..
Turner got well amazingly fast, but the
scandal of his recovery was too much
for Mr.. Sabine. A dean of the church
unable to get a corner on faith enough
with his (Sabine's) assistance to cure
his paralysis must be signally rebuked
or the church would go to pieces and
the shekels of the faithful cease TO
now into the Sabine Golfers
So Mr.. Turner was denounced, Oh.
tracised, sat down upon and expelled
as a man who lacked faith to cure him
self according to the prescribed for
mula Of the Christian Scientists. Mr..
Turner expostuiated. He had tried
hard enough He even went so far as
to imagine there was nothing the mat
ter with him, and acting on that theo-
ry fell and bumped his forehead when
he attempted to use his legs. This he
did repeatedly. He had Brother Sa-
bine to lay hands on him and he had
prayed hard, fast and persistently, but
all to no effect, until he ripped out
cuss word and used electricity Then
presto the pains decreased. the limbers
began to show signs Of life, and afte.
following the directions of the regular
pagan physician he figuratively took
up his bed and walked" And he Is
walking now, but not as a divine or
Christian healer He is in the valley
of the shadow from Mr. Sabines point
of view, and is anathema as a man of
little (Cbristian science) faith.
On Sunday last the Reverend ex-
lightning rod or eX-insurance head of
the church in Confederate Hail.
preached, as stated in the beginning
Of this article, on back sliders and re-
calcltrants who were immune" in
matters of faith and who were inter-
fering with the light shed by Mr.. Sa-
bine. Mr. Sabine said;
"The class of colored people which 1t
had cost him so much labor and pray
ers and the exercise Of so much faith
to organize, and from the society of
which it was his most careful study to
exclude white communicates, was now
being broken into by white men whose
object was disorganization or worse.
He wanted no white man or woman TO
interfere or intermingle with his col
ored lambs, and he especially protested
that his colored sheep should not be
contaminated and worried in their
faith advancement by white rams. The
white ewes were not wanted either,
in this colored class. Mr. Sabine de-
sired all such to come to him and be
manipulated, massaged, or pumped full
Of faith at headquarters. These white
men meant no good to the colored
lambs Of the flock and we're insidious-
| ly working their way in there to disor-
/ ganize and prevent the proper article
| of Christian science faith from circu-
! lating and precolating through the
souls of his colored class"
/ OF this and much more the Oppo
| nent Of Mrs Eddy unho Omed himself
but not exactly in the phraseology here
used. as IL Is impossible for a pagan
reporter to be accurate In taking dowr
1.-THE inspired utterances Of a Dowie
a Sabine or an Eddy. However, Il II
the substance OF the sermon CD anC
the plaint pat up by the chief priest a
11th and E streets.
In this connection it strikes TIL
lGIOBE that Doctor Sabine should at
tract the attention Of the District Com
missioners to the end that his praC
tlce may be regulated on a CONNER
cial basis. This man is in the receip
Of rich fees from patients for whom h
prescribes. It is not german to tn
Iquestion at all, the nature Of his pr
scription. He collects a fee for his sol
vices. Now the question THE GLoB
desires to raise is this: II this Chri
tian Scientist doctor, Colonel or Reve
end collects fees from patients, is
not a practitioner and should he nc
be called upon to secure a license q
such? There are numbers OF regula
practitioners OF medicine in Washin
ton whose combined fees do not equ'
Mr.. Sabine's. yet Mr.. Sabine pay