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mended his remaining in hospital until be fully recovered. His father and mother, being Christian Scientists, persuaded him to come home, which he did. They prayed over him and sent for their best and leading light of the C. S. Church who prayed and talked and etc. Result:- -" the boy is lame for life." Now remember this was in Boston, the centre of Christian Science. Yours truly.
F. BROWNE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS.
SIR. While I cannot vouch for the follow. ing, I believe the source of my information to be quite trustworthy. A friend of a friend of mine had a dislocated kue", and A locil Christian-Scienc“ healer auderfook to mend matters on condition that the ban-iages were removed and further medical attentions dis pensed with. After a short interval of strenuous thought," the bealer told the pa- tient to arise and walk. The patient obeyed, with the immediate result of a bad fall and a sprained ankle. The doctor had two places to bandage, and the patient had extra pain.- Yours truly.
T. N.
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SIR-8 a student of the lure of the Hermetists, Bierophants, Cabilists, Esoteric Buddhists, and lately Christian Scientists. I conclude that not any of your correspondents know what they are talking abon'. Mrs. Eddy is not a discoverer. Her central idea is as old a religion. The Indian Yogi has it, more clearly than she. Occult science shows that all matter is illusion, but Christian Science -Cannot cure or help anybody till he or she becomes Mabatma. All desire must be eini.
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nated, or meddling makes disaster. The potentiality of the will is immense. evil-disposed Christian Scientist could ill. wish" a person, and give a healthy person disease, just as easily as he or she can cure disease, which I admit. Yours truly.
D. S. G.
[We require no more "occult scienc“. ' Future letters, unless exceptional, must be confined to actual cases of cures or failures.- Ed.}
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SIR, Mr. May's letter ou this subject was a stetement of facts. Mr. Duun's correction" thereto lead me to write that the patient did not appeal for C.8. freatment. A friend of the patient wrole and told her the practitioner referred to was coming to Hongkong, and that abe had asked her to call on her (the pati-ut). A friend, to whom the " practitioner had a letter of introduction, took her to call on the
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tinned to be necessary, although, owing to the peculiar way the " practitioner made her be- lieve black to be white, she thought not. After a week's 'treatment in England, she said in distress, 'Bend these people away. They have never done me any good.' The specialist who first attended her was called, came promptly, and cared for her to the end. If she had not at the last seen through the humbug, so far as the treatment of disease is concerned, I hate to think what she would have gone through,
Yours truly.
E. BRUCE SHEPHERD.
Iu the light of painful facts like these, we repeat our warning that "Christian Science, so far as it meddles with health and diseas, is a menace to socisty. Argument with people who deny the plainest meaning of plain English is wasted, but for the public benefit we may point out:
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SIR --Being an unconvertible unbeliever in Christian Science," 1 have read the articles and correspondence on this subject with great interest, and consider that you deserve the thanks of this Community and in fact of all right-thinking men and woman everywhere for the exposure this clap-trap, self-advert- ising, hyg'ariosi, bosh has received in your columus.
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I read the other day in a "Christian Solenos publication, a letter from a woman in which she said she had been severaly barnt about the face neck and breast, and that by Faith (and some technical C. S. terms I did not understand) the pain ceased instantaneously and in less than two hours all marks of burns had disappeared with the exception of one small blister. Is any one cracked enough to expect that any (1) C. S. practitioners claim power to heal individual can swallow such a palpable lie? I the sick, absent or present, believing or unsuspect that the "one small blister" nonstituted believing.
the full extent of the severe burns, the rest (2) If they had cured the lady referred to in being supplied by the nsual ('. 8. hysteria and the above letter, they would have bragged of it, fertil imagination. Will Dr. Fluno let some- and cited her as one in the last stages of cancer, one publicly baptise him on Thursday with given up" by the medical profession. Mr. | boiling oil, and then demonstrate to the meet- May mentioned that the doctor beld outing that he felt no psio, and that nɔ marks no hope; Mr. Dunn claimed a (emporary) result therefrom? miraculous restoration.
I am told that a local "healer" saya he was
patient. There was Dever any appeal for this from the patient, in her extremity or at any time. What happened during that interview I do not koow, ая the patient's family WAS not allowed to be present. The second point is much important. It is not true that the visit to England was decided upon after the pati-nt had so much benefitted as to bare dispensed with further treatment. Mr. Dunn's reference to re- stored "health and happiness' is absolute rot, The patient was going about looking like one already dead, after all the "treatment." The cruel nature of C. S. influence is apparent in the fact that it was after the patient had been to a Sunday meeting of the C. 8. that she came home and said, "I am guing home by ext French mail,' which WRE Tuesday. The prac'itioner (members of patient's family! ** are all evil influence, and that she can do more for me, so I am going Home to consult some one with higher power." Appeals to her to remain with her family failed, and she left as stated, never again to have communication with those who loved her. Mr. Dunn's statem-nt that she was miraculously raised from her dying state to one of health and happiness is untrue. The patient was roused from lethargy to a state of
never say die," and if the C. S. people had left it at that, she might have been happy for a while longer. Health she certainly never regained, and I know for an absolute fact that medical treatment con-
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(3) Two "healers" failed. The patient ¦ knocked down and run over whilst cycling in suffered much
unnecesary pain, that the London by a lorry ; the lorry which weighed never doctors could have mitigated. To the sorrow so many tons went over his arm-and his of the natural bereavement
added bicycle. Faith etc., left no pain or marks so far (entirely owing to the misguided meddling of as his arm was concerned, but what, oh! what C. S.) the pain of lousliness and sparation and happened to the like? Why did Faith etc., not straighten out. The squashed tubing, and bent spokes and inflate the deflated tyres? I could almost have believed the yarn if the bicycle, the prorinnocent bike, had been treated for its injuries by the same method aid re- coverol sa miraculously as the arm.
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If this cisa does not illustrate the intolerable mischief of the C. S. delusion, for every sane person who reads it, our efforts have been rusted, But are they to be wasted? We call upu the Goverument, in the name of hu- manity and commonsense, to draw a distinction between religion and medicine, and to take such immediate stops
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protect the credulous from such dangerous“ practitioners." No pious blief, no motive however sincere, entitles anyone to do such harm and to go antouched of responsibility.-—-Ed. Į
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS."!
Hongkong, January 21st SIR,-Mr. Daun speaks with an entirely satisfied conviction of the cortainty of C. S. cures. I should say that no follower of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy will dispute the statement that the healing forces of Christian Science reside in her to the atmost possible. A sister- in law of hers, a Mrs. May Anne Baker, living in Boston, for whom she professel a deep affection, was afflicted with cancer in the breast, and after seven years of suffering, died in 1902. Mrs. Eddy took great interest in this case; she induced Mrs. Baker to submit to Christian Science treatment, and herself selected a special besler, no doubt also exerting her full personal
no purpose. healing power, but to claimed his due in spite of all. Now, how was it that in this case, having cared for hire, at one visit, the virulent case I mentioned on Monday, she could do nothing to check the disease? Of course her convinced believers will say that Ms. Baker did not persevera (having given up the treatment) to the end, bat what becomes of the one visit! We hear much assertion of cares bere and there but little bat
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assertion. Personally I am convinced that Christian Science has never cared a proved case of canc⚫r. Thanks to thestud-nt of the stceteras for so graciously putting us all " jast there." He is right about Mrs. Eddy; she is not a discoverer and her central idea is (not Yogi pidgia) bat au old doctor named Quimby of Portland Maine, who imagined a system, from the manuscript of which, still in existence, she plagiarized, and in its amended state called it
Christian Science." But it was a little on grateful on her part when she was learning for ber to say, that he healed as Jesus did," and when she had got all she could from him, to describe his " healing," as nothing but
mesmerism."—I am, đo.
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C. V. LLOYD.
{We bars received a letter giving interesting details of a miraculous case at Shanghai, bu! the writer has not sent his ma ne and address, as required by the rules.)
In the absence of any response to your invita tion on the part of the "healers to mention any local cure, and in view of the unimpeachab'e ride ce given by Mr. May and Mr. Bruce- Shepherd of the deplorable result of ignorant meddling in the sad case to which they refer, it would be interesting if you could give a con- deus d account of the recent case in England which clusel such a sensation of genuine horror as is seldom seen. I mean the case in which an Army Officer was healed after su accident in the hunting field, I blieve, by "Christian Science" methods, and eventually died a lingering and painful death from bed- sores. A prosecution followed bat unfortunately the quack was let off and escaped earthly punishment.
wanton inter- It is high time that this " ference in the treatment of sickness should Let be made a most serious criminal off ‚nce. these people have their religious services by all means, but let them stick to that and that alone.
Thanking you for what you are doing for humanity in showing up this hambag,
I am &c,.
Yours faithfully NO SCIENTIST.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS," |
22nd January, 1908. SIR. May I add word on ** Christian Scienc" just now very much in evidence ?
The Morning Post of to-day quotes an article fom a home magazine in which Lord Dunmore there is always a Lord or Lady in thes new fads-joined the rect bea1988 rupture given up by specialists (usual smeer at the medical profession) was oured.
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Either this gentleman was a liar or he never had a rupture, as snyone with the slightest knowledge of a rupture would know that it can only be cared by (a) a miracle or (b) surgical operation, and do not gather there was any question of a miracle.
As a religion I have nothing to my against this form. There are already 100 ̊ odd re- ligions and one more or less doesn't seem to
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As a method of treatment however there is more to be raid. If any intelligent man chooses to think that medicine is not a science and that all the study put into it is worthless andį that medical men are liars and rogues, which is what Christian Scienos" makes them out to be, ke
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