The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-04

two or three times in the course of the hour the patient is encouraged to talk. There is no other treatment, no contact with matter, but solely mind influencing mind"
 pr. P. c. Wolcott, rector of one of the leading Protestant Episcopal churches Of Illinois, in an admirable booklet on What Is Christian Soience?" attributes the power of the book. Science and Health" to the fact that if you force yourself steadily to the task of reading its monotonous pages, you soon fall under the sway of the book, and lapse into a condition of mental dizziness and vertigo, The reasoning faculties are benumbed, your critical Judgment IS lulled to sleep, and your subconscious self, which Is always amenable to sug- gestion, dominates your intellect" This process he compares to the methods of inducing hypnosis in g Paris hospital by concentrating the patients attention upon a revolving disk, or a sounding gong.
 It may be that in each of lis resides a
 "subliminal self" that we are double Iegos," as the modern psychologists are telling us, and that it is through this larger and sub conscious self which controls the automatic functions of the body that this deep and mystic healing by suggestion must come. It may be that more and more this merging of the deeper ranges of our being With the Infinite Life in which we live and move and have our being shall avail for re- lief from pain and for access of power. Certain 1t is that there is nothing in all this possibility dependent in the slightest degree upon Mrs. Eddy's Hin du metaphysics of matter, Certain is it also that none of these manifestations of modern mind-cure are identical with the healing wrought by Jesus the Nhriet Our TArd was not dnnendAflt upon any metaphysical understand ing" nor even necessarily upon any faith on the part of the one to be heal ed: much less were His efforts when He undertook to heal ever, baf1ed as Mrs. Eddy clairns hers to be at timth. by the majority opinion of mankind Whatever the cause the failures of
 Christian Science" treatment are very
 numerous. The aunt of a member of this church became a Christian Sci enlist" later took the full course of training in Mrs. Eddy's Metaphysical college in Boston and for some years rracticed as Christian Science" healer until she broke down and to- day she is "a helpless invalid scarcely able to move about her roon
 Often the acknowledgment of this failure is long resisted even by the patient herself who is taught system atically to deny all evidence of her persisting malady as being but the false claim of mortal mind. An anus ing instance of this sort wss told me the other day by Hartford lady who herself witnessed it in Christian Science experience meeting in Dover, Maine A lady was giving in a clear voice her testimony to the benefits of Mrs. Bddy's discovery when, two seats in front Of her young woman arose and began to testify that Christian Science" had narvelously restored her hearing after years of deafness. The two testimonies mingled their streams of praise upon the air for some seconds when the first witness concluded it best to stop; she remained standing, however and when the poor girl in front had finished her testimony to perfect hearing restored by Christian Science" the first speaker resumed what she had to say In other cases where pain has become too acute and danger too ominous to be treated as this deluded girl treated her deafness if the like deltslon has been persisted in tragedy often heart-breaking has resulted. A complete list of the cruel ties and deaths due to fanatical faith in Mrs Eddy's impossible claims, cru cities and deaths visited often by mis- guided parents upon helpless children, would be nothing short of appalling. Far better would it be If all of Mrs. Eddys followers were In time of seri- ous illness as wisely inconsistent as MT. Joseph Armstrong of Boston, the official publisher of all Christian Sci ence" literature and one of the leading lights of the cult
 It appears that during the recent Ed dy case in Concord, MT. Armstrong was summoned and he accounted for his non-appearance at court by sending physicians certificate that he was un- able to attend. It seems that he was suffering from a severe attack of pleu- risy and was in hiding under the care of a regular physician. The certificate caused something of sensation and
 
 produced consternation among the faithful The Boston Herald remarked: "The turning of Publisher Armstrong of the Christian Science coterie of of flcials to a physician for treatment for pleurisy, is as if Melancthon had left Luther to serve Leo K, as if John Knox had fallen under the spell of Queen Mary's blandishments and turn ed Roman Catholic, as if Asbury and Coke on arriving in America had preached Calvierism, as if a speaker at Northfield should preach Agnosticism."
 Very cissr is it, in spite of the Con- cord lasy's transcendent and as l am compelled to say, to the irreverant claims, hers is not the healing of the Physician of Nazareth.
 His was an instantaneous forth-put- ting of divine power that never failed, and that was not palsied even in the presence of death.
 I believe in miracles. but I believe they were, as Luther used to say, the apples and nuts of the childhood of the race. A law Is the usual way in which God does things, a miracle is an unus-