Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1911-08-17
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A Remarkable Acknowledsm

"A Remarkable Acknowledgement.
The FREE Press, by request, reprints
from the Congressional Recorda speech
delivered by United States Senator
Works. Of California. last month. We
confess that we are not familiar with
the many new cures and schools OF
medicine, but this statement eunanat-
ing from the chosen representative Of
the great state Of California in the
highest legislative branch of our
Government compels attention.
The results obtained seem almost
supernatural. Will some of our
friends Of medical profession explain
them?
"Mr. President, it will be seen that
complaint is made that the League for
Medical Freedom is not acting In good
faith, but that it is being used for SIN
lister and mercenary purposes by man
ufacturers and dealers in patent medi-
cines. am quite sure from the we'll
known views of the Senator from Okla
'honla that he would not for moment
Justify any act of oppression such as is
attempted in this case through the col
umns Of Golfers, knowing as ! 90
that he stands the champion of the
rights of the people and civil liberty.
Therefore in what expect to say with
respect to these publications and their
-utterancea am not treating them as
the utterances of the Senator from
Oklahoma.
Mr.. President, this is an important
subject. 1t is one that calls for the ut
most frankDess in dealing with it. !
know how much the senator from Okla
homa has at heart the measure that, he
lis pressing for consideration before the
Senate, and desire to say that / res
pect his views in regard to that matter
but |. differ from him wholly.
am going to discuss this question,
from the standpoint Of Christian Sci
enlist, and in order that the Senate may
better understand and appreciate that
point of view I am going to give you in
Just few words my own personal ex-
perience with Christian Science heal
ing.
Ten years ago / was acoffer at
Christian Science; derided and ridicul-
ed the claim of the Christian Scientists
to heal disease; but the time was to
come and that soon, when Twas to put
those pretensions and claims to the
test. / bad been an invalid and
great sufferer from complication OF
diseases for many years. During the
last year AeforeI came to Christian
Science for help those diseases took an
acute form and / suffered intensely
night and day. In that space of time I
lost thirty pounds in flesh and had be-
come correspondingly weak ] was un
able to do my days work. ! felt that
the time had just about come when l
should be compelled to give up my
work and that death was near at hand.
I had tried all schools Of medical phy-
sicians; / had gone to what is known as
the old school or the regular school of
physicians; / had tried the homeopathic
physicians. finally went for relief to
the ostecpaths, who conceived the idea
that my sufferings and the headaches
which had endured ali that time were
the results of the displacement of one
Of the yertebrae that pressed upon
the spinal cord and caused all my
troubles. obtained no relief from
amy Of these sources am not here to
criticize the work done BY the physi-
clans. They did the very best they
could for me, and one and all Of them
worked conseientiOusly in the effort to
relieve me from my troubles They
were competent men in their profession;
have not in anything that I may say
here any word Of condemnation Or criti-
cism to pass upon the physician who
was doing his work conscientiously as
such; but found that my relief did
not lie there.
Il had said that. while had no faith
IL il. while, as I said I Few moments
ago. seofed at the very idea that