The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
ERRoR CAST OUT OF PUPPIES.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
When dogs, pneumonia and Christian
Science get mixed up, something is
likely to happen. When the dogs are
Smithtown, L. L, dogs, and dogs OF
high degree. when the pneumonia Is
Smithtown pneumonia, and when the
Christian Science is of the Augusta
e. Stetson, First Church of Christ,
Scientist, variety, something is sure to
happen.
And here is the story of the sure
thing. 1t was death to the mother,
but the pups were saved. In life the
mother was known to all the country
side of Smithtown as the high bred
Scotch collie, Highland Lassie, belong
ing to Mrs. John Clark, whose family
is only little less venerable than the
Smithtown Smith family.
Highland Lassie was such a sweet
natured dog that, in the course or time,
she got nearer to the seat OF MIS-
Clarks affection than anything AMI
mate, inanimate or metaphysical e4-
cept Christian Science.
A few weeks ago Highland Lassle
became a mother to the extent of seven
pups Six of them, being little boy
pups, looked exactly like their mamma
The other, being little girl pup, was
dead ringer for it's aristocratic DAD,
a high degree gentleman collie OF
Shutdown.
When everybody thought mother and
children were doing well, Lassie fell
III of pneumonia of that dread Smith
town kind, and the seven pups were
likewise stricken a few days later. All
that the most highly skilled dog doc
tors could do for LaSsie and the chill
dren was of no avail. They grew stead
lily worse. In desperation Mrs. Clark
who has been a Christian Science stu
dent for several years, bethought her.
self of the healing power of science.
Why had she not thought or 1t De-
fore? Why had her mind been so
clouded by error? Immediately she
wrote to her sister, Mrs. Ida N. Case
of 461 East Sixteenth street, Flatbush,
who is a member of Mrs. Stetson's
First Church of Christ, Scientist, and
who has wrought some cures herself,
telling all about the illness of Lassle
and the pups, and begging her to pro-
iect her mind down the forty-eight
miles from Flatbush to Smithtown and
give mother and children the absent
treatment.
"As soon as I got that letter." said
Mrs Case last evening, Il went to
work, but I soon found that error had
got too strong a hold on Lassie, and
she died last Thursday. On that same
AFTERNOON, however, L gu q bSAS5 Gill
from my sister, begging me to con-
tinue the treatment on the puppies. l
sat up all that night giving the dear
little things my thought, intensified by
prayer, and the very next day heard
from my sister that the puppies were
better. Now they are practically Well.
rs not all illness regarded by Chris
tian Scientists as error?" Mrs. Case
was asked, and to remove the error
Nf I1A ,A Ja
Spond to the mind of the healer?"
THAT is just it," replied Mrs Case,
smiling. For a non-convert you have
a fairly keen appreciation of the Sci
entist's position
but how. then, in the case of a
dog, can there be a response of mind
to mind?"
"Why, don't you see," was the an
swer, terror is vindication, frightfully
so. For a reason which l prefer not
to discuss, error would have attacked
my sister, but she was SO girt about
with the armor of truth that error was
powerless against her. So it attacked
that which she loved most in all the
world, dear, sweet Lassie.
my sister tried to combat the error
in Lassie, but her atmosphere was so
contaminated by human sympathy that
her best efforts were checlxmated. And
so Lassie passed on. But error was
not satisfied with the life of Lassie.
1t attacked the dear, innocent puppies.
Then my sister called on me again
and now come to the answer to your
question. 1 worked on the puppies
through my sisters own mind. I pro-
jected my thought, prayerful thought,
from my home here down the long
road through the night to my sisters
mind in Smithtown, and straight
through her mind 1 attacked the error
in the minds of Lassies little ones.
The first treatment lasted all night
and the next day l got the glad news
from my sister that the puppies were
better. There were only five of them
to whom / gave the absent treatment,
you know, because my sister gave two
of the seven to me. They never had
anything the matter with them, except
little mango, and that l have practi-
cally cured.
1.-THE error of pneumonia has passed
from the puppies in SmithtoWn, but I
am still giving them two treatments a
day for their own mango and they are
getting along finely.
But this science treatment of ami
mails is not new. We treat horses and
other animals in the same way, work.
ing through the minds of those who
love them most In the same way.
idiots, children and the insane are
treated. l knew of a case where the
error of insanity was quite removed in
this manner"
Mrs. Case didn't know of any Chris
tian Science horse or dog doctors, but
after her successful treatment of Las
sizes error-ridden pups, there would
seem to be a great field of work for
Science veterinarians.
WOMAN SAVED THE BANK.