Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-09-18

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New Testament replete with the
statements of the liberty that comes
through "a right apprehension Of
Hin whom to know Alright is Life
eternal (Science and Health. Pref.
p. viz.
The fast that healing AID the
knowledge OF Truth ht Which we
are to get II las been pas over as
not meant for this time or fo: all
mankind, has been due to no fault
of the Bible III presenting it, but to
our attitude CT thought in approach.
ing 1t Because we mad been ed't'
Gated to believe that physical heal
ing must be brought about by ma
terial means, we had not deemed it
possible that God had provided ,spir-
itual healing from sickness and ev-
cry form of error, SO we uncon-
sciously studied the Bible with the
view of substantiating our precon-
.ceived notions about what it ought
to teach.
We are led through the study of
Christian Science to try to stop view
ing man as sick and sining, and to
accept the fact of his righteousness
and dominion, which is insisted up
on throughout the Bible, and to un-
,dertake to manifest this dominion
over all things. To most of us the
body, with it's many forms Of sick
ness and error, seems to need most
immediate attention, first, be-
cause it has such vast number of
.sicknesses to which it lays claim:
and second, because the history of
material means for the alienation of
these troubles shows them to have
been almost a complete failure. l
say almost a complete failure, be-
cause the latest remedy and the lat
est method, the ones that have re-
placed last years remedy and last
years method, have not as yet been
proven useless; but the history Of
the past hundreds of years will re-
peat itself, and next years mater
ial means will replace what will
then be this years failures.
Some years ago a new and sup
posedly wonderful remedy was adj
vocated for the treatment Of pneu-
monia, and the medical journals
were full of the records of the al
most instantaneous cures which had
come about through it's use. AS a
practising physician l prescribed
this remedy at the first opportunity
that presented itself, but with no re-,
suit. l have since come to see that
the remedy worked just SO long as 1t
had some enthusiastic optimists be-
4lieying in its efficacy, but failed to
work as soon as it became generally
used by generally pessimistic pro-
fession; profession grown pessi-
mistic through it's continual history
of drug failure. This drug, in spite
Of the marvellous cures accredited to
it for several years, has long since
gone the way of dismal failure of
those that preceded it.
Another famous remedy that came
into almost immediate prominence
within the last year or two, and
which has been lauded as an abso-
lutte specific for certain disorders, is
now being condemned by some Of its
former supporters as doing no good
and much damage. 1t has been re-
markable both for the claims made
for it's efficiency and the charges
made for its administration. 1t was
a brilliant success so long as people
believed in its efficacy, but it is now
fast becoming a dull failure.
Surgical and other material forms
of treatment are in this same pro-
cess of change. 1t has only been a
very few years since soaring of parts
of the body with red-hot iron was
advocated as good treatment, though
we would condemn this now as bar
barous, and the day will surely
come and is not far distant, when
the wholesale removal of the ton
sils and the injection of the many
kinds Of animal serums will be con-
sidered quite as barbarous; for just
so long as we cling to materially,
today's apparent success will be to-
morrow's failure.
Vaccination has remained in po-
sition of supposed efficacy of which
/ know. We can most of us remem-
Der when to be able to show good
scar meant lifetime of pr0tec-
ton. But the years of it's supposed
usefulness are constantly shortening,
until now it is maintained that 1t
only protects for few years, with