The Washington herald., 1908-02-09

~. az II.
Church, On the subject Of mind healing
on last Monday night have had some
knowledge of DR.. Worcesters efforts IN
Boston and have been much. very much,
interested in the developments there be-
ing made. Mind healing thought seems
to be growing. Dr. Fellows. of Chicago
has recently come out much along the
same line. and is meeting with wonderful
success i'm the awakening of a general in
teTeSt All of this shows that the world
is hungering and thirsting for the God
Almighty Truth ! was led TO think OF
our Saviour when He looked over Jerusa-
lem and exclaimed: "Oh. Jerusalem!
Jerusalem, how often would I have gath
cred thy children together as a hen gath
ereth her chickens under her wings. and
you would not" when / saw this vast
audience on Monday night hungering and
thirsting for something that they could
not get.
My subject tonight is a delicate one,
and one in which / hope / will not be
misunderstood in my conclusions, because
my heart goes out in love not only TO
those who are in this EpiscOp8lian move
ment but 10 the whole world. which is
anNlously seeking for the truth. The
Episcopal Church the second i'm the
world, / love them; / love them because
they are Bible people, I love them be-
cause they depend upon the Holy Scrip
lures / love them because of the history
they have made; l love them for the un-
shackllug of the truth, during the later
days of the Renaissance, and throwing
20 the broad, wide world the Scriptures,
the Holy Bible. as II is given to us in
King James translation Their history
is beautiful and their work mas been
grand and they have been the greatest
civlllZers. so TO speak, in the Protestant
world Even though Wesley was the
H1
never did leave the Episcopal Church. but
remained faithful TO il and its teachings
till he died
1 am not here 10 talk against any
church. The great Catholic Church with
ITS wide ramllCatlOns, has carried the
love OF Jesus Christ into every nook and
corner or the world. where "a civilized
flag could stay, and in its work of
practical charity and euterprisiug vigil
ance IN the propaganda of its truth
il mas no superior and there is none
In the Christian world. But there has
come a change. q lapse. In the advance
ment OF this doctrine that has been taught
10y these churches. During the last fifty
years there have not been IS many con-
Verts come into the Episcopal Church as
has IN the last ten i'm what we term the
New Thought. OF Christian Science world. (
There is lack. there is hungerinE and
tnlrstlns UnSatIsIied in the minds of the
people. 1 have at this time several
preacher students who / am teaching.
J.
and II has Dc sn but a short time since ]
had minister student in my house that
is a minister OF the Episcopal Church. a
member IN good standing and a minister
in active work. They are hUugeTiug and
thirsting for the power to heal the sick, I
they want rebaptism, they want to get
the people re-iu-l0Ve with their church. /
so that instead Of going down it viii 90
forward. That is the motive that is the
prOpelling thought i'm Dr. WOrcester's
work i'm Boston
Not Christian Science.
But while I recognize this to be true, Il
am just as sure that they ara wrong and
that they are taking wrong way; so
sure of it, indeed, that I am unwilling to
allow their Interpretation of this truth 80
90 out 10 the world without q correction.
SO that it perchance some one Of our
people might be misled, that they viii
know where TO obtain the truth. / asked
a member of TINS church if he had been
10 the lecture. tie said Yes How
best Christian Science sermon I ever
heard ina my life And there was not
one particle Of Christian Science I'm il.
Now / am going to take up the thought
first as % their basis and manner of Op-
GRAFTON. They make the doctor the center
pin around which they rev0lve. God Al
mighty and Jesus ClTists healing is not
10 IT, Suppose ! wanted a treatment aC-
first go TO doctor and have him examine
me and receive from him Il statement of
what my disease Was. If that disease
came In the category of what is termed
organic diseases, of which tie insurance
companies have listed "a list as long as
your hand, they are not 10 be given to
the church AT all TO treat Nhy2 Be
cause the doctors say they can't DE heal
ed. and whatever the doctor says must
90. Now / want 10 discuss that a mo
ment But before doing so ] want TO make
another bow, If you viii permit the eN-
preston l want 70 take my hat off to
the doctors I want 10 say that I was
raised among doctors. My father was q
physician and every one of my uucles
on the pdterndl side of the family were
physicians, except one, and there were
several or them. In my practice as a
lawyer / nave been associated with doc
tors more or less all nv life Intimately. /
l used 10 love them so Wen that ] had
one or them engaged by the year. en-
gagged him year in and year out, and
then 1 employed another and another !
and / always had a good practice in my
family for him. I believe that the great
majority OF the physicians are honorable. /
upright gentlemen. Now mark what ]
tel YOU, j am not here TO throw dirt az
the doctors but / say in all candor that
1 beleVe them 10 bee. next 10 the LAWYER /
the most honorable class of men among
the professions But the very nature Of
their business is such that II is a blind
leader OF the blind and they can't them
selves know what they are talking about
IN the great majority Of cases, as I will
show you conclUsively. Before going fur
Iner, however / wish 10 relate an in
stance OF one man IN this city. one of tho
dhlest SO-Called surgeons in the citv of
Washington. II I named him every one
of you would know him as well as a
household word There was q lady who
was taken sick, I think they had got her
into the hospital-Of that I am not p0si-
tive he examines her and says "YOu
VIII nave 10 have your appendix re-
movtG s7" have the appendicitis" She
says, Doctor, wH5n You have had il Te-
moved do you have to have it removed
another time?' Certainly not" he re
piled. We'll" says she, you removed
mine two years ago
Knife Was Not Needed.
There was another lady taken with the
appendicitis so called. according 10 an
other doctor who was also supposed to
be very able surgeon. and he was called
through the fear of the husband as soon
as she was found to be ailing. and the /
mother, who was a Scientist. wrote me a
letter telling Of her daughters illness. and
put l0-cent quick-deliverv stamp on 1t, /
and the letter was soon az my house /
teiephoned my friend here on the right
tMlss Van NoasU To so there Immediately /
and treat; that they should not cut the /
patient She stayed for tWenty-fOuT hours /
and came away. and ] replaced her with I
another lady of our staff, who was a pro- I
fesslonal nurse. well known to the doctor /
and the doctor was very much pleased to /
have a nurse in possession that he knew
so we'll The doctor was determined to /
cut. and every time he would make an /
examination and fix a date Of such exam /
inatiOn the patient was better Never /
theless. they were bound to cut and the /
brother was brought from a Western /
State TO be present at the operation, a ]
man Of considerable wealth. and lie told /
the physicians TO spare no expense what /
ever 10 save his sisters life. But when /
ever they commenced to fix a date 10 cut /
she was better, and finally in spite of |
their eternal nroEnnsIioat tLnns sLa crnt