The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-04-26
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than he knew when compelled TO re-.
cant his published statement that the
earth had diurnal motion as well aa !
a motion around the sun.
We have been aware for many years
that this element held within II im-
mense possibilities and step by step
its accomplishment of one after an
other has been verified until laugh
ing yet reverent prophecy of y friend
of the writer, after hearing the fTst
telephone message. seems nearing full
fillment. He said
"You never saw anything like t..
II is wonderful Why, fifty years FROM
now we shall be looping a wire on a.
star and talking with the angels"
When the first sentence passed over
the telegraph wires from washington.
d. c., to Baltimore, Il seemed miracu-
lous. No wonder that this sentence
gave in four sort words the sentiment
of the whole world: What God hath
wrought"
Since then electricity has belted tha
earth as a means of communication; IT,
has annihilated time and distance; it
has superseded all Illuminating gases,
and now opens up new phase OF its
wonderful power as a remedial agent,
acted upon by the human brain and
controlled by the human will.
True, the medical world has for
several years conceded its efficacy in
the treatment of disease, but It has re-
mained for Mr.. Andrews Mcconnell oe
New York city, president Of the Socle-
ty of Universal Science, to discover
its intimate relation to the human
body TO generate within itself the
life-giving and preserving element
which the ancients designated as
"Steropes, the destroyer; but under,
this wonderful discovery we may hail
him as a benehcient angel keeping
watch and ward over human life, and
making it possible to eliminate dis
ease from the body and so disclaim
the heirship Of the fesh
Mr.. McConnells theory has nothing
to do with Christian Science. Faith,
Cure. nor the Emmanuel movement;
but he shows why cheerfulness, hope
fulness, and a positive state OF mind
assist the curative process. After Civ
ing the laws for increasing the pro-
duction of the life-maintaining cleo
tricity through electric methods OF in
creasing the digestion and assimila-
tion of the food, he gives the laws
controlling it's circulation through the
brain and nervous system, and he
claims that this gives a scientific ex-
planation of the cures reached through
all mental and spiritual healing cults.
There is neither mysticism, super
stition, nor religious bias in the prac-
tice of his methods, but all treatment
Is individual. He calls II "Self-cure,"
and the name Of his discovery, THE
Science OF Human Electricity" claim
ing that vital electricity is obtained
| by careful observance of the prln-
Ciples he teaches by which vital heat
is generated in the body, and as all
! the Vital organs are governed by this
electric force, il one generates and
| directs a sufficient amount, health and
strength, he AYERS. are sure to be re-
stored and long life made possible.
The announcement OF this discovery
is creating a great sensation in the
| eastern cities, and schools have been
recently established in Washington,
Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn and
Boston, where the work is done by
teachers whom Mr.. Mcconnell has
trained for the purpose, and this work
requires no apparatus, no so-called
treatments, no manipulation, no drugs.
Lectures are given on the scientific
! character of the work, and instruction
as to its application for remedial pur-
poses. Personal attendance on these
lectures is, Of course, preferable; but it
is claimed by its discoverer that many
cures have been satisfactorily obtained
through the printed lectures which are
in book form.
The Washington Star states that
great interest is being manifested in
this new discovery by the corps of
scientists at the Smithsonian Institu-
tion," a fact which proves that 1t Is
not considered a fad, but something
worthy Of scientific research.
Mr.. Mcconnell states that he discov-
cred this principle of vital force by
actual demonstration on himself after
ten years of inyalidism from nervous
prostration, caused by oyerwork in the
lecture field, as he was the originator
Of the lecture bureaus in the south
and also Of the Mcconnell library
system, Interested in the development
of electricity ne began his research
until he became convinced that health
was vital force and that this vital
power was electricity. Then came the
problem of how to increase this force
and control IL.
He says: "To get thoroughly at the
foundation of health we need to know
what is vital force? What Is the ener-
gy through which we move, work and
think? When we understand this we
reach a basis OF life itself and ara
ready to construct a science OF health
| and life TINT will ha ecfanffaoalIr nar-