The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-11-17

treated Tor trouble with her eyes anG
stomach trouble | informed her that
Christian Science treatment was
prayer to God. we did not believe in
drugs, medical treatment anything
like that. and she asked me TO give her
treatment. Sometime was said 81
regard to the basis Of Chr i-
Science, and | told her su5st2rs
that Christian Science was the t.f'
about God and the truth about ran's
relationship to God and The trut4 a.
his birthright as a result - this Tci2-
tionship, which is the fond ION Of
what we teach, and | told her that on
| | told her that on this basis c'saase
this basis disease was no part OF her
birthright, or in harmony. and when
she realized her oneness with GCd anr
/ got in harmony with God that tbs
was the treatment and was whaf ve
would do. She sat there for about ( >
minutes. l covered my face with -
hands, or sat with my head PARTIAL
bowed for 10 minutes, in prayer"
He testified that at the second inter
view "She spoke to me about taking
off her glasses, and | told her that
there was no reason that she should
not take off her glasses, and casual
spoke of my own healing, that I BAD
worn glasses for many years
and taken them off. / told her
had trouble with my eyes and had
several other diseases and tha, had
been 20 number of physicians nj
that ! had been healed by Christian
Science" He further testified that on
the second visit he told her That
christian Science treatment was
|, prayer to God / told her that Chris
, tian Science realized that God was on
| nipotent, or all powerful; that He was
!, omniscient, or all knowing: that He
was omnipresent, or ever present; and
that because God was omnipOtent and
Omrsscient and omnipresent, and God
7 was good, that it must follow that evil,
disease, inharmOny, sin and discord
: were no part OF His Being and had no
: real existence, and l told her that man
| was the image and likeness Of God,
2 and was entitled to dominion, and that
] his birthright was dominion, and that
E. he had the right to affirm and secure
2 immunity from discord Of whatever
! name and nature, and that disease was
l like a shadow that fees beforeS the
D light"
t He says he told her that this result
4. would follow from spiritual under
standing. He says he spoke to her
4 about Weeping her life pure and Christ
e like and loving and good, and just
: and free from error. He says he ther
d prayed again, and that prayer is q
synonym for treatment.
:, He further testified that at the first
] interview 81 tcld her l could not cure
d her, that had no more power to cure
d her than anyone else. that God was
d the only power, and the only healer
:, | told her that she could cure
I herself just as much as | could i
g she would study and purify her lif'
8 and her thoughts and cleanse from he
d consciousness fear and inharmony ant
D false thoughts. | told her that b,
studying and gaining an understand
g ing that she could apply the principl
=. and law of Christian Science as wei
/ as anyone else. as well as l could
I / told her that was nothin
d and that she was nothing, it wa
e. God"
1t His testimony as to what was sal
d at the third interview is as follows
j I'VE discussed Christia' Science an
u picked up Science AMI Health wit
II Key to the ScrirtHrCs' ~ AIRS. Eddy
e which is recognized in ia
d Science as the standard teXthook
IS is the original Christian Science tex
y book whicl we ACCEPT with the iiol
e Scriptures Of which it is eTplanator
as the basis of our great religion
e. truth asked her 20 procure a cop
] of this book lie testified that b
o read to her from that book, ITO b
] present with the Lord is to hav'
n not mere emotional ecstasy or fail
S. but the actual demonstration anS u-
e derstanding Of Life as 7, toala7
y Christian Science. To bG
e Lord is to be in obedience E., -
y of God, to be absolutely governed b
s. Divine Lovely Spirit. not by ma
II ter.
le Become conscious for a single M
d ment that Life and intel cence II
Is purely spritual-neither IN nor {
1T matter-and the body will then II e
no conscious complaints. If sufferin
/. from belief in sickness. you viii fin
II yourself suddenly well. Sorrow
lyl turned into joy when the body is CO.
'el trolled by spiritual Life. Truth an
"a Love-
:. Entirely separate from the belle
id and dream of material living, is II
le Life Divine. revealing spiritual unde
erI standing and the consciousness
lel mans dominion over the whole cart
I'd This understanding casts out err'
" and heals the sick. and with il yC
le can speak as one having authority.
III He testified that he was practicir
o Christian Science as laid down by Il
ID church He denied that he was pra
lg ticing medicine.
le II was conceded on the trial tn
d, Christian Science is a religion base
lie upon the Scrirtures and founded
IL Mary Baker Eddy in 1866 and tn
ut the church has a'0ui million mel
e bers. The alleged healing of NOR;
lie mental and physical Diseases by pra
er was praot.cei D. Ghri siian Scie
ys fists in New York for more than
as years before tho times me 1tioned
d. the indictment. /, was 1i7 conced'
ID that in order - obtain 90 ry upon Il
Is list of practitioners ci tho Christi;
n Science church rrcof Es1st 10 II
r nished satisfacscey - 80 church
he the character an -n-''' c'tions of Il
ne applicant, bit tfef due ion a.
rs experience o. tro a0- n IS not
id, element IN rs cr-' 'tiels -
a. church relic vf..t- - = ri1corf