The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01

Tan science treatment. IL would seem. I
therefore. that sufficient testimony is
already In To settle this question. We
shall not hold ourselves responsible for
the conviction of DIR. Cabot. but viii
wait for him To discover the truth of
DR.. Knapp's assertion b. experience.
DIR. Cabot declares: ~ patient suf-
ferIng from organic disease rarely con
suits n Christian Scientist" He might
have said that thus far very few pa
tients suffering with any sort of dis
order call upon a Christian Scientist
Until after they have exhausted their
patience or their means in experiment
ing with material remedies. 1t is nat
ural that one should not experiment
with something that is new and I'M
tried So long as the old ways promise
results. Those who apply to Christian
Science are. as rule, those who have
failed to recover through medicine,
and If IL be true that from II medical
point of view organic diseases are
more difficult to heal. il is likely that
more cases afflicted with organic
troubles apply to Christian Science.
IF it be true that organic diseases are.
as a rule. more dufficult to heal than
functional troubles. II is because the
one has Il stronger hold upon human
belief. and in the breaking requires
more staiwart understanding of the di-
vine power Such cases are more diff
ficult tn heal than others. just as some
problems in mathematics are more diff
ficuIt than others but while even a
simple problem might BATTLE the ef
forts of a neephyte or one with limited
understanding the most difficult would
be easy to master Therefore. the
remedy for the inability to heal any
( class of diseases does not lie in re-
sorting to a more material means. but
in understanding more perfectly the
spiritual.
In the writer's own practice, extend
ing through a period Of 20 years, he
has seldom had a patient who was not
afflicted with both organic and func-
tional disorders. and his success has
been quite as uniform with organic
troubles as with those which have been
called nervous disorders.
In conclusion our critic declares:
believing, then. as / do. that most
Christian Science cures are genuine
genuine cures Of functional disease
the question arises whether the special
methods of mental healing employed
by Christian Scientists differ from
other methods Of mental healing, that
is, by producing i'm the patient strong
belief that he will get we'll
Whatever may be said concerning the
Christian Scientists ability to dag
nose disease, we think that Or. Cabot
10 lfp ~,
ilege, namely. the privilege of stating
how Christian Science heals. since the
, Christian Scientist is at least supposed
to he Informed on his own subject.
To acknowledge the Christian Scicn-
lists qualification to define his own
theory and practice would be no less
consistent. 1t is evident that no one
. knows quite so well how Christian
Science heals as the Christian Scien-
, list. through whose understanding the
. healing is effected. w
No doubt when, under Christian
. Science treatment, n patient begins t.
improve there is produced '.in the pa
tent n strong belief that he will get
we'll" but to say that II is this belief
, which cures the patient is To fail en-
, tirely to analyze the modus operand
! Of the healing. a Christian Scientis,
would not hope to succeed in curing a
patient by the mere belief that the pa
tient will get well. although he is
aware that such an encouraging belief
Is always helpful To a patient.
The healing remedy in Christian
Science. as we have already shown. is
the realization of the divine power
and presence which illumines the men
; tally of the patient and destroys his
sense and fear of disease.
/ DR.. Cabot declares: Il believe that
: good many warped minds, just as q