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Incredulity

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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To the Editor ol The Register : Sib: - It seemed to me that id your last ssue y ou wrote in s somewhat increduous vein of the work which " a distin;uished specialist " bas been accompliehüg here for our hkherto beniebted comnunity. But this is an increduloui age. msw people ■ could now be induced to beieve that a meeiing-houee chimney could e blown down by a witch, even though a 8econd Cotton Mather should vouch for he correotne88 of the statement; and even he best authentiïated patent medicine advertisements no longer secure that implicit onfidence which on their face they seem o merit. Much as I deplore your increulity, Mr. Editor, I equally admire your ourage, in that you did not wait until the bject of your animadversions had gotten lear out of town, as Sam Jones had bebre he was so publitly denounced, but said it boldly" right in his faoe. Howver, I need net enter the lists as the hampion of "Professor"' Loisette, eince be University and the faculty have so em)hatically endorsed him, tht is to say, two f the faeuky. His disciples have now othing to regret, save that from him, as well as trom their money, they are so soon parted." I fear that in relation to the subject of 3hristian Science Healine; the incredulitv f 6ome is deeper-seated and more difflcuït o remove. It 6eems strange that those who so readily accepted the Loisettean ystem do not all with equil readinesí acept the other equally well authenticated ystem. They affect to contider it too much like ie eourse pursued by Simon Magus, who ffered the Apostlea money, eaying, "Give me also this power;" and toolittle in acordance with the injunction of theSavior, who said to his disciples, " Preely ye have eceived, freely give." These skep'tics foret that times have changed since theD, nd that another great authority has also aid, " Circumstances alter caees." The nstances of alleged failure of thisnew eysem of healing to effect a cure, such as the ea'.h of " patients" under the treatment, re, if true, only the exceptions which rove the rule; or, more truly, they are nstances under the rule, for if those atienta only had now sufficient faith to elieve they are well, they would not be ead. It is really a work of supererogation for meto add my humble testimony to the fficacy of Christian Science Healing, yet ;ven it may convince some unbeliever. 'he " Healers" who practice this "Science" ave thus far suppcsed that it is applicable nly to the ills that human flesh is heir to. 5uch is not the case. A lady well cnown to the writer, who has beome a " Healer," has, by her own erfectly credible testimony, exercised he " Science" with the greatest sucess upon chickens sick with the cholra, or some other epornithotic (if I may oin the word), and likewise to the very ;reat relief ot the horse of a poor man fflicted with the bo's; that is, the horse was affl cted. This suggeets a wide field or the application of Christian science, wider, probably, than any but a few of its aost enthusiastic disciples have ever reamed of. Having already passed from he human family to the animal kingdom, t is but a step further until it takes in ianimate nature. Hereafter the housewife, when she is perplexed because "the jelly won't jell," will not resort to the recipeook, or when impatient because the buter refuses to come, will not drop a redo.t horseshoe into the churn to scare away he witch, but will send immediately for he Christian Science Healer, who will remove all her difficulties for a consideration; □lees she has been wise enough to pay be required fifty dollars for a eourse of ix lectures and become a "healer" herelf. Hereafter the farmer - but you are bundantly furnished with imagination yourself, Mr. Editor, as many of the news tems in your valuable paper bear witness, nd I leave you to carry on this thought t your leisure. Dec. 27, 1887.

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