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Show Men of science are casting about for some efficient means of definitely, aod with due regard to statistic, settling set-tling the question of the efficacy of prayer for the sick. Prof. Tyndall, having been called upon, suggests a test case in some great hospital. In different wards the patients are to be subject to the same treatment medically medi-cally but in certain wards the prayers of the faithful are to be offered up. If in a given number of instances the death rate is diminished among patients for whom supplication is made, then prayer must be admitted to the list of remedial agencies and become a qualification qualifi-cation of the profession. One Mr. GaJton calls attention to the fact that medical men completely ignoro prayer in their prescriptions. He also shows from a carefully prepared table that, although in every country in Europe prayer is offered for tho health and long life of the sovereign, the average go of this class is much below that of lawyers, merchants, physicians, and even soldiers. Evidently the prayers thus offered up aro not of the "effectual fervent" kind that an anciont apoatlo speaks of as availing much, and tho other kind apparently doesn't count. Couldn't these learned professors and pedantic fools analjzo and assay the different kinds of prayer, so as to makoa proper ortmcnt for tho various forms of dewe? The old adage of "old fools the greatest fool," might bo ad-yanugeoualy ad-yanugeoualy chafed by subauluuDg "learned " for "old." The New York "Tribune" having cloared Horace Greeley of the charge of being the Nathan murderer, it is now in order that somebody make affidavit that the Mormons killed Nathan, and have it telegraphed to the New York "Herald." |