The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-08-10

healing.
Further, Christian Science plants
itself unreservedly upon the scriptural
| teaching that all that God made was
very good" and that there was nothing
made that He did not make. 1t denies
exist and yet is no part of the divine
economy. Nevertheless, it recognizes
the phenomena of material sense and
that sin, sickness and death are quite
as real as any other material nantes
tations.
Recognize Existence of Evils.
Christian Scientists recognize that
these evils and discords exist in erring
mortal experience, the dream of NOR
tai life, and call them by the same
names that others use, and they recog-
nize that these evils must be grappled
with and overcome by Truth. Even a
ghost must be explained away. 1t can
not be overcome by merely ignoring it,
Notwithstanding the fact that the prop
erly informed person knows that a
ghost is mere apparition, a seeming,
not reality, first, last and all the
time.
DIR. Cabot declares that he has
Studied one hundred cases of Chris
tian Science cures recorded in the re-
cent volumes of the Christian Science
Journal and that putting together
this evidence and comparing it with
his "own experience regarding the ac-
curacy of his own patients statements
about their own Diseases" his "conclu-
sions are, first, that most Christian
Science cures are probably genuine;
but, second, that they are not the
cures of organic diseases"
Incid entally he declares functional
diseases are no more imaginary than
an ungovernable temper or a balky
horse is imaginary. They are often
the source of acute and long continued
uffering; indeed, believe that there
is no class of diseases that gives rise
to so much keen suffering" Thus the
. doctor pays tribute to Christian
Science by generously conceding that
1t heals real" diseases and destroys
an immense amount of suffering. So
far, so good.
Every Case a Fit Subject.
J Proceeding, the doctor declares
"The sharpness of this distinction be.
&. tween organic and functional troubles
is somewhat blurred" and organic
!. disease is oftentimes produced by
functional disease" and "such organic
t disease is often cured by Christian
t Science
3 DR.. Alfred T. Schofield, a medical
authority, in his we'll known work en-
titled "The Force of Mind" says:
, There can be no organic disease with
out some arrangement of function,
while he also declares in. agreement
with DR.. Cabot, functional disease
may after all be organic at the bot
TOM" Thus, in the mouth or pen o.
n "two witnesses" it is Established
n that every case is a fit subject fol-
n Christian Science treatment, since &C
cording to the testimony of these re
n putable witnesses every person will
n organic trouble is also afflicted func
% tionally, and every functional troubl,
l, is a fit subject for Christian Scienc,
treatment.
Without first experimenting will
Christian Science treatment, it would
doubtless be difficult to determin,
! whether or not given organic diseas,
has been occasioned by functional dis
- orders and is therefore according t,
= Dr. Cabot's theory amenable to Chris
y tian Science practice. Therefore, OIL
DIR. Cabot's authority alone, we hav,
established the Importance of at leas
experimenting with Christian Sciencs
DIR. Cabot has stated his belief tina
functional disorders can be cured b.
Christian Science treatment. Dl
Schofield, as before stated, has assert
ed that all organic disease produce
functional disorders. This is equivs
lent to saying that every sick person |
afflicted with functional disease. Nov
it is not possible to really cure dis
ease without going to the bottom of
and eradicating it's foundation.
Christian Science Cures All.
Every case of functional disease ha'
ing an organic foundation can only b
cured by destroying it's organic foul
dalton. Therefore, on the testimony {
these two distinguished authorities
the fact is establis19al that Christia
Science cures al kIr1l of diseases, fc