Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-07-25
WILL PERSONALLY EXPLAIN
DR.. Edward Earle Purinton
Lectures Saturday
He will Make Personal Explanation of
his Beliefs and Practices in Com
meneement Hall Regrets the NOt0-
riety Gained Through his Fast.

MS BeftIs ana ffdctices III GOm'
meneement Hall Regrets the NOto-
riety Gained Through his Fast.
70 the Editor of the New DoM1NIoN
The simple fact of fasting 30 days
has occasioned such surprising
amount Of comment. interrogatiye and
adverse, among the people Of Morgan
town and SO gross Misrepresentation
on the part Of the press in West Vir-
ginia and elsewhere, that the truth
demands some explanation.
And | shall appreciate it If the
newspapers Of Pittsburg, Cincinnati,
New York and other centers will rec
| tify the impression given by their
garbled reports.
The fast cure is not a new thing.
1t is not novel.
! 1t is not a fad.
1t is not even an experiment.
| For at least dve years it has been
known, approved and practiced at the
leading therapeutic institutions OF
America. Such physicians as Drs.
Dewey, Oswald, Page, Holbrook and
Edwards make it an integral part Of
their healing system. Aud these men
have national reputation.
DIR. Hanish the Oriental psychic,
bases his method Of psyche physical
renovation on series Of Fasts, begin
ming with one day and ending with
nine days He has over 1000 pupils
in Chicago alone. incidentally may
observe that he has forever abandon
ed meal hours, one of the points urged
ia the recent Lectures by the writer,
Bernarr Macfadden editor of Phys
ieal Culture and aWoman's Physical
Development and the greatest pbgsi-
cal culturist in the world, advocates
fasting for everything and has con
Quoted most popular Health Home
with that as the central measure. A
Dietist and manager of this Sanatari-
um last summer, | personally super
ysed many Fast ranging from seven
to forty three days and witnessed
complete cures of men and women
doomed to premature death by the
most famous specialists of America
in Diseases of Heart, Lungs, Stomach,
Nerves, etc. Mr. Macfadden has 30
600 followers in New York City and
over 500, 600 elsewhere in the United
States.
Instances could be multiplied ad
inflnitum to show that Fasting is
neither original, experimental, nor
unusual with me. If it were there
might be some mean satisfaction ia
the cheap notoriety that has been &C
cruing from the overlooking ebullitiou
of minds cast in a medieval mould.
But Fasting is more than a method
OF cure. 1t is preventive Of disease
and a means to such mental domi
nance and spiritual insight as is be-
yond the ken of the habit-beund
plebs, who feed on superstition and
die on tradition. And such leaders
of the New Thought as Elizabeth
Towne, Edgar Wallace Conable, and
John Hamlin Dewey owe much of
their psychic power to the clarifying
influence of the voluntary Fast.
Their doctrine isn't Christian
Science either. Not to weary you, |
have decided to give short Lecture
ON 1.-THE Philosophy of Fasting" in
Commencement Hall at the Univer-
sity Saturday evening, July Goth at s
sharp. 1t will be simply an informal
talk, and / shall gladly answer ques-
tions and welcome discussion at the
close.
There are two reasons for this pub
lie explanation, first to put the truth
before the people plainly both in fact
and theory, and secondly to be Of
some help personally to the few adj
vanced thinkers who have asked re-
peatedly for more definite information:
BY Saturday night, l shall have
tasted seventeen consecutive days,
and should be able to speak from ex-
perience at least And ] trust that
this little talk will prove finally that
Fasting is not huge joke or an adj
vertising scheme, or vagary Of some
phantasmic system such as Christian
science. Yours for "Reminiscences,
EDWARD EARLE PURINTON.