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

and wholesale way OF the Emmanuel
rectors without the danger 81 doing far
more harm than good.
AT present the catch word Of the
Emmanuel movement is 'functionat
disease. We are told repeatedly that
the clerical heaters will have nothing
to do with any sufferer from organic
disease, and they use their medically
trained allies IL separate the functional
sheen from the organic goats, the lat
ter being thrust back into the outer
darkness OF legitimate medical prac-
tice But what do these people mean
by functional nervous disorders, DO
they really believe that there are two
distinct kinds nt dtscaSe-tnnctional
and organic? II they do not know,
their medical advisers should tell them,
that every day we are shifting So
called functional diseases into the class
of organic diseases. win these clerical
heaters abandon a functional disease To
the medical healcrS when ii is discoV-
cred to be dependent upon an organic
basis and continue to treat ii? And
once they find themselves treating one
disease called organic, why not others?
Why not all? Every physician knows
that 'cheerfulness, hope, courage and
religious faith and prayer which CON
stitute the pharmac0pucia of the New
York school Of clerical healing are just
rs necessary I'm the treatment of tuher-
culosis as in that of constipation. and.
indeed. that they are often distinctly
curative iii various organic diseases.
If the clergy have divine commission
10 heal the sick they are recreant To
their trust and cruel tn the suffering
to deprive any ri III" benefit of their
healing words. and il will not be long
before they recognize that fact and act
accordingly. That the law f"rbids
them To- practice medicine is. ri course,
detail OF Ito Importance"
We do not pretend to he we'll verSed
in diagnosis but we understand that.
with the exception Of those which are
produced by accidents. organic LESSONS
are the outcome nr functional disorders
and that in n large number Of cases
when the functions of the body are
rendered normal the organic diseases
disappear with greater or less rapidity.
Therefore We are AT Il ib~N IL hithN
why those who believe that Christian
Science can heal functional disorders
GO 10 the length Of insisting that IL -
imposSible To heal a case "f organic
disease IN mental treatment. There -
no other way Of fundamentally curing
disease. Any other method must de
pend upon docturing the effect III order
10 remove the cause. This would he
equivalent Ia topping Il tree for the
purpose of killing ii. Sueh a remedy
only causes the tree to spread its
branches
Although human cvideuc" and expert
ence may declare for the iucurability
of those disorders which have devel-
oped into the form that is called or
ganic. there is nn reason tn conclude
that they are beyond the reach Of dl-
vine power. nor that those who trust
God cannot utilize that power, Be
hold the Lords hand is not shortened.
that il cannot save" Mans extremity
is Gndeedl Gods opportunity"
DIR. Richard Z, Cabot, Noted medt-
cal authority and advocate of the En-
manuel movement. in a published
statement declared that lie had
studied 100 eases of Christian Science
cures recorded in the recent volumes
of the Christian Science Journal" aad