The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-25

as II haO some enthusiastic OptimlSt
believing in its efficacy, but failed t
work as soon as il became general.
used by a generally pessimistic pro
fession; profession grown pessimis
tic thru it's continued history Of drul
failure. This drug, in spite of tn
marvellous cures accredited to it TO
several years, has long since gon'
the way of dismal failure of thos'
that preceded il.
I Another famous remedy that came
into almost immediate prominence
: within the last year or two, and which
I has been lauded as an absolute spe
cific for certain disorders, is now be
! ing condemned by some Of its former
supporters as doing no good and much
damage. II has been remarkable botf
for the claims made for its efficiency
and the charges made for it's admins
tration. 1t was brilliant success SO
long as people believed in its efficacy
but it is now fast becoming dull fail
ure.
Surgical and other material forms
Of treatment are in this same process
Of change. 1t has only been a very
few years since soaring of parts of
the body with n red hot iron was
advocated as good treatment, tho we
would condemn this now as barbarous
and the day will surely come, and is
not far distant when the wholesale
removal Of the tonsils and the injec-
ton of the many kinds of animal Sc
runs will be considered quite as bar
barous; for just so long as we cling
to materiality, today's apparent sue
cess will be tomorrow's failure.
Vaccination has remained in a posi-
ton of supposed efficacy for longer
period than anything of which | know.
We can most of us remember when
to be able to show good scar meant
a lifetime of protection. But the years
of its supposed usefulness are con-
stantly shortening, until now it is
maintained that it only protects for a
few years, with an ever-increasing CO.
terie within the ranks of the medical
profession maintaining that it does
not protect at all.
Again and again in toxic conditions
and in immunity from contagion, the
Christian Scientist is proving that
spiritual understanding gives the pro-
lection of which Jesus spoke when he
said of those who believe, eff they
drink any deadly thing, it shall hurt
them"
Medical and surgical methods are
changing with such rapidity that
among the profession the idea of
yearly examination has at times been
agitated, the thot being that if it
,ould be shown that a physician was
not conversant with the very latest |
method, he should not be allowed to
this is admitting that |
what was good pactice a few years
lgo is not good practice today.
| am not criticising the doctor
he does the best he can with the poor
Weapons which have been given him
am sympathizing with him, because
ust when he thinks he has it, he finds |
lie has not.
In practicing medicine | soon found |
hat there was certain mental ele- |
nent in every case, and as it was OBJ
'ious that this element could not be
cached by any material means, | be-
'an to try to estimate just how large
factor it was in every case that
anne to me. AT first, | thot some
asses were quite largely physical, and
theirs quite largely mental, but as
ime went on and thru practice my
observation of the mental side of the
uestion became more keen, | saw
hat many types of sickness were
holly mental, and finally came to see
nat they were all entirely so.
This did not mean that | was a
H.. L. 4 |
t this point-far from it, | decided
nat since | had to deal with so large
mental question, which the medical
rofession either wholly or almost
holly ignored, | would study mental
ealing from every standpoint from ;
hich it had been presented, with the !
lea that | would find in ali literature !
\ the subject the presentation of
lie same principle, and so would have I
broader view of the question than :
Nv single writer, and with this !
would be able to heal. Ac- /
'rdingly, | studied everything | a
uld find, from mental therapeutics a
Christian Science, and as | studied 7
saw that all were alike except one, /
I'd that one was Christian Science. [
Christian Science was the only one C
at had so large a grasp of the all S
IS of God as to refuse to dishonor f
inn by admitting that anything that n
e had made was imperfect or could \
come imperfect; was sick when He o
Gated it, or had within it any God r
ven quality that could allow it to be-
me sick 1t was the only one in n
lich there was no compromise with $
after. and which dared to deny the f
aterial world, the flesh, and the i.
vii, because they were contrary to ii
IS creative perfection; the only one s
at dared to deny the actual exist u
ce of anything unlike God, and
erefore the only one that offered as :,
rance of healing after human hope i
d human will and human reason y
d failed /
Do you suppose that when saw a
this | accepted Christian Science? l.
y Instead for two years | read ev- +
ything | could find against it land b
was time when there was much "
ticism), in the hope of convincing s.
Yself that it was not true, for | saw a
at the spirituality of Christian Sci ii
e would not mix with my profession "
d | did not want to give up the Il
actice Of medicine. But the more nj
read against il, the more | became n
nvinced of its truth, and here | am. n