Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-03-22
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!: (By Glenn Guernsey.) =

New York, March 21-Some years
ago there was in New York an eccen-
trio and highly original reporter named
Muldoon. A dreamer by nature, he
found the tasks of news-gatherer too
strenuous for his taste. Aided by Lib
eral potations of the spirit" he
searched his cranial appendage for
scheme that would yield livelihood
without severe mental or physical APP
plication. The result was the Church
of the Silent Desire" with Muldoon
as high priest and prophet, and scores
of well-to-do and idle women as his
devotees.
Muldoon's creed was simplicity it.
self. 1t was merely an exaggeration
of the orthodox doctrine of prayer.
mixed with Christian Science and
mental healing, and sugar-coated with
Buddhism and other "Asiatic mil
dew" But it caught on immensely.
Muldoon promulgated the pleasing
doctrine that If you yearned for
thing hard enough you would get it,
and hundreds of otherwise sane people
used to come around to Muldoon's
temple" of esoteric tommyrot and
pay him real money for the privilege
of yearning.
But the queerest thing. about the
whole affair. to my mind, was the fate
that Muldoon actually cured scores of
people of divers ailments, ranging
from toothache to chronic tuberculosis,
by his yearn treatment. At least, they
declared they were cured, and that
should be sufficient. Curing the drink
habit was Muldoons speciality, al
though he was quite unable to cure
himself.
Since Muldoon's timess the mental
healing. cult has spread all over the
country. Christian Science has be-
come creed of respectable proper
tions, and its doctrnesiare now being
adopted by more ortbodox denomina-
tons. Under the name OF ssChristian
psychology" mental healing will be
given test in New York next week
at Christ Episcopal Chufch. Two Bos-
ton clergymen, the Rev. DR.. Elwood
Spencer and the Rev. DR.. Samuel Ma
comb, will conduct the demonstrations.
but will deal principally with patients
AFFLICTED with functional nervous dis
orders. Hundreds of cures are already
claimed for the new psychological
methods, which have also been sue.
cessfully tried by Bishop Samuel Fall
lows. of Chicago.
The Christian psychologists, unlike
the Christian Scientists do not deny
the existence of disease nor the eff.
cacy of medicine. Yet the acceptance
of mental methods in the treatment
of disease is, to a certain extent, JUS
tification of Muldoon and his yearn-
full creed. Which only goes to prove
that the fakir of one generation is very
often the prophet of the next.
Another Society Wedding.
New York's best society" will have
an opportunity 10 witness another
wedding next Monday, when Miss
Julia Keen Fish, second daughter OF
Hamilton Fish, will become the bride
of William Lawrence Breese, of Lon
don. The ceremony will be performed
in st. James church and the audience
will be super-fashionable one. The
young couple will live in England. I'm
like the usual international wedding,
there is no title or interchange of cash
involved
A Sacrifice to Faith.
One of the bravest men in all New
York is Chin Wing, a % year-old China
man. He is of the stuff that the old
Christian martyrs were made of. Be-
coming convert to Christianity, he
publicly denied the faith of his faith
ers and defied the Ratchet men of
Chinatown by having his honorable
queue cropped close from his pate.
The ceremony was performed in Bea-
con Light Tabernacle, while the mis-
sionaries applauded and the unregen-
crate celestials in the audience turned
away in horror from the dread spec
tacle. Such public Dissertation was
a huge sensation along Mott and PelI