The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-04-26

bers OF profession who but few
short years ago proclaimed omnipotent
powers for their nostrums. Many ply.
sicians today tell US they seldom or
never administer drugs for curative
purposes. They have found out that
there Is intelligence. power, Principle
or law In drug They are learning
the truth OF what Mrs. Eddy discover
ed nifty years ago; namely, that 1t is
not the drug that heals.
In the January, 1917, issue of pub
lie Health" monthly publication OF
the Michigan State Board of Health
publicity Is given to a statement by
DR.. George Goler as follows: Real
medicine Is advancing, so that we have
almost arrived at that stage where our
patients do not pay US for medicine
but for advice, and we-some Of US
at any rate-have almost come to the
point where we are willing to neglect
the medicine altogether, and our pa
tients have learned that we are able
to do them more good without medi
cine than with it,"
Christian Science has distinctly prov
en- that there is but one preventive
medicine" and that is the understand
ing OF mans God-given freedom from
disease as taught In Christian Science
The New York Telegraph, editorially
prints the following: 1.-The decrease in
the death rate in the United States be
gan when the Christian Scientists
started their uplifting work. Christian
Scientists have made this a nation OF
optimists. Men and women have got
into the habit of being WE'LL as Oliver
Wendell Holmes said. Christian Sci
entists have worked without ceasine
to show their fellowmen that sin, sick
ness and death are abnormal condi
lions of mortal mind aud they have
succeeded. No group of religionists In
America has ever had such an effect
on the people, an effect for good, spri
ritually and bodily-as have the Chris.
tian Scientists. The good health
of the country shows the result of thai
work. Figures prove it,"
And permit me to read briefly from
a sermon delivered by DR.. William X
Sadler, physician Of Chicago, Iii
nois, at large Chautauqua gathering
at Bay View, Michigan, in the summer
of 1916. The Doctors words are re
ported in part as follows: 1.-The ex
amples set by Christian Scientists
ing, growing Christian on the face OF
the earth. / am a physician, So you
can't try me for heresy. The time Is
coming when love will guide us away
from the tortures of feeling. The
Christian religion, II universally lived
would Danish all illness and disaster
1t is the only religion that is psyche
logically sound When the love oil
of to IT,,
us it will cast out all fear"
What, my friends, do you imagine
would have happened to the good
Doctor II he had uttered these senti
ments from a similar setting before
the influence Of Christian Science was
felt in the world?
Germ Theory
At this point let us pause just LONG
enough to pay our brief respects tc
our little friend, the germ, and to the
germ theory. l refer now to the bad
the wicked germ. We are told thai
there are good germs, but they do not
seem to be popular. The bad germ |;
the only one we ever hear much about
DO you know that if there we're one
iota of truth in the present day teach
ing and theory about the germ there
would not be man, woman or child
here this evening? If the germ theory
were scientific and had the sanction OF
God this old world would have been
depopulated almost before it was pop
ulated.
Consider for moment the prepos
ferrous idea of loving Cod loving
compassionate, omnipotent Father say
ing to His children: -"Children | an
sorry to have to disillusion you, but
what Moses wrote in the book OF Gen
esis about man being made in the
image and likeness Of God and having
dominion over all the EARTH and wha;
the Bible teaches from cover to cover
about the loving kindness and protect
ing care of the Father and His love
and compassion for His children, is al
n myth. You must hereafter place nc
confidence in God. Instead of being
your protector and ever present help In
trouble | am just the opposite. My
purpose Is to accomplish the complete
undoing of my children, and to assist
me In my task l have created the
wicked germ. have made him the
deadly enemy of all my loved ones.
have given him infinitely more power
and intelligence than have given my
children and have placed him in ev
erything you eat drink, handle or see
The germ is indeed the chosen OF the
Father and you, my children, are his
prey. He has explicit instructions
from me 10 accomplish your destruc'
ton and have endowed him with the
power and intelligence to carry out this
purpose. He shares omnipotence with
me while you, children, are abjectly
helpless in his presence. 1t is my pur-
pose that sooner or later each OF you
shall fall victim to his prowess.'
That picture. my friends, is not what
might be called a beautiful one, is 1t?
Yet il is not orerdrawn in the least
particular. submit that the teach
ings of the germ theorist completely
eliminate God or any idea CT God as
necessary to the creation or salvation
of man. Infinitely more to be avoided
than the germ Is the fear and dread
OF 1t as we'll as the mental picture OF
disease and the fear OF it engendered
by reading these false theories, and by |
reading so-called health talks and de-
scriptions OF diseases appearing so