Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-23

cades quite extensively, so that
now its practitioners are number
ed by tens of thousands, and It's
patients by hundred of thousands.
Within the twenty-five years, in
the United States alone, quite
100000, including both sexes
and all ages, in every variety and
condition of climate, have been
treated by Christian Science
methods and cured of all manner
of diseases, named and unnamed,
substantially covering the whole
range of mortal Affections. There
are some failures, it is true, but
the percentage of these failures is
many times smaller than the per-
centage of failures under methods
of materia medica in any age of
the world. If we add to this state
ment of cases cured the fact that
large proportion of the cures eff
fected by Christian Science were
of persons confessedly beyond the
reach of material remedies we
will have an experimental test of
mental therapeutics, Divine heal
ing in every way more satisfactory
and conclusive than is afforded of
the curative quality of any drug
in the whole history of medicine.
81 snbmit this simple DrOpOsi-
ton: If as intelligent men and
women, you may determine the
virtues of material medicine by
experiment; if, by human obser-
Walton and experience you ascer-
tain satisfactorily to your reason
the efficacy of a given drug, by
a percentage of cures effected by
it's use, then it is not clear beyond
controversity that the same test
will measure with equal accuracy
the medical virtues of Christian
Science? And in common fair
ness, and by the logic of the aXi-
ON that Things equal to the
same things are equal to other
things, are you not driven by re-
lentless logic to accept the hum
dreds of thousands of closely OBJ
served tests of the merit of mental
medicine in forming your Judge
ment of the curative force of
Christian Science?
The time has long since passed
when any intellectual man, with
out a shock to his moral sense, can
say that Christian Science does
not have it's victories over disease !;
that it does not restore health
that it does not reclaim the
drunkard; that it does not heal
wounds of bone and flesh that it
does not give vision to the eye and
hearing to the ear that it does not
minister to the mind diseased. "
In almost every city, vii age and
hamlet of our country, examples
of these cures exist, and may
easily be known by reasonable OBJ
servervation, there are tens of
scores of persons so healed in this
audience tonight. 1t is conceded
that the practice of Christian
Science has not been an unbroken
success; there have been some
failures; not all treatments have
resulted in perfect cures; there
have been some fatalities, but
these have been comparatively
few, and as an indication of how
very few comparatively, let me
tell you that in this country the
states of Colorado, Nebraska,
Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Illinois, Michigan, Indi-
ana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
York present the largest growth
organization and practice of
Christian Science in the United
States, and comprise more than
one-half of the population of the
entire country; and yet, in the
whole life of Christian Science the
aggregate fatalities under it's prac-
tice in these twelve states, during
period of thirty years, are not
equal to the deaths occurring under
material medicine in any one
week in the last two years, in the
cities of Chicago and Greater New
York. If this is true, is there any
possible reason why an intelligent
man, having faith in the practice
of material medicine by reason of
experimental tests, should scorn
to be influenced by similar tests
of Christian Science healing; and
is it satisfactory explanation fol-
not doing so for such an one to
say to his mind mental healing is
unreasonable, because beyond his
comprehension, when it is evident
that the same person, with all the
aid of medical science, would be
unutterably confused in an effort
to determine why pellet or pow
der or lotion, has wrought a cure
in any case, surely, it is the ex-
treme of inconsistency for any