The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-20

before the discovery of the telescope
verified their theoretical location.
Mrs. Eddy's Dosmatic Exesesis.
Patiently, candidly and as unbiased
as within us lies, we have read Mrs.
Eddy's book. Science and Health,
with Key to the Scriptures Instinct
lively one is reminded of Webster's re-
ply to the woman who complained TO
him of the many obscene words in his
dictionary: Madam. you were look
ing for them" While denying their
existence, she is constantly looking
for the horrid dust of the ground"
material man, and mortal mind"
DR.. Knightly has rightly summed up
its merit in the following terse Ian
guage. For if we were to devote
whole volumes TO verbal criticism, one
would find in this volume that what
is new is not true and what is true is
not new"
The "Fruitage" of "christian Science"
The term therapeutics is universally
understood to mean any and every le-
Ultimate method and means of treat
/ ing the sick; any special line Of the
repeutics gets prefix indicating the
means or method employed: for in
stance. dietotherapy, or treatment of
the sick by diet: hydrotherepy or
treatment with water and the various
forms of bath: acknowledgements or
the application of electricity in treat
ing the sick; psycho-therepeutics or
use of the marvellous influence of mind
over body, especially so in the sick
body. Long before the days of Mess
mer and his followers, this was recog-
nized and utilized by the reputable
medical profession, many eminent
medical scientists having studied and
written of it, known to the profession
mate part of general medicine: II is
known and extensively practiced to-
day in modern medicine as psyche
therapeutics or suggestive therapy.
and is a perfectly rational and logiti-
mate depart of genera, medicine; 1t Is
as much divine healing however as ad-
ministering quinine for malaria;
no more, no less,-"There is a divinity
that shapes our ends, rough hew them
as we may" AS we admitted in the
outset of these articles. christian sci
ence," in so far as it divests the sick OF
panicky fear and apprehension Of
disease as demoniacal entity, a
! ghostly dagger of the mind, proceed
ing from the heat oppressed brain, ito
fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
in so far as it thus relieves the mind of
mental worry and distress. which con-
stitutes more than two-thirds OF all our
ailments, and misfortunes, it does
world of good; add to this an indefi-
mite and empiric drug-prescribing and
over-treatment with contraindtcated
medicines by the legitimate medical
profession, and which. none real
ize, lament, and are striving harder to
overcome and with encouraging sue
cess, than the medical profession
/ themselves; then again add to this,
the silver tongued patent medicine
fraud and the poor dosed and drench-
ed and doped, dolorus and disguised
, sick, little thinking and caring less
whether it Is divine or devilish heal
ing, turn to christian science" for
surcease and nepenthe from
over-treatment with virulent drugs
and patent nostrum- surfeitage when
the loyal and benevolent life-entity or
vital force unhandicapped with med
dlesome medical dosage and mental
strain, speedily restores health and
vigor to the body. contentment
and cheerfulness to the mind,
"and they lived happy ever af-
/ ter" Now to all this. again add the
part of the people that you can fool
part of the time, and some of the peo-
| pie that you can fool all the time" then
! throw in the monstrous inherent, here
/ ditary credulity and gullability of man
kind generally, and little wonder that
! the earthly gamers are Overlooking
with the ''fruitage" of so-ca.led
christian science healing" until they
must perforce mar their spirituality
with horrid material matter to build
greater. This is as much divine heal
ing as dietotherapeutics, hydro-there-