Show PitA IS NOT NOI Ol E EA A decision de was rendered the th other day tu itt the tho thea Circuit court at Milwaukee by Judge Elliott on a point of at general In Two Christian Scientist list ladles ladies were on trial for tor practicing medicine without a 11 license but the judge discharged them on time the ground that prayer er Is Iii riot Hot medicine The de the decision thet Is t Important because It Jt settles the status S of that class pf ot healers In tho the State SlaW of ot Wisconsin It is also a just de do decision elsion In tact fact It Is difficult uIt to con can conceive calve of ot any uny nn line of at argument by which a 1 different conclusion could bo be reached consistent with facts taets and anil common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense And yet Christian Scientists nave have been much annoyed In various vatious places because of at their practices The judge stated that the tho defendants did not assume to tb t be doctors or nor to prescribe drugs He Ho then argued The whole question at Issue In this ease case resolves Itself jo to o this Is prayer medical treatment If It It Is then the defendants arc are guilty of on nn offense un under dot der the laws of at the time state It It Ills Is not then they an are not guilty and must be discharged It would scent seem as If It this question answered Itself the tho act of ot prayer Is III so 80 unlike anything that Is Ie popularly regarded ns as medical treat treatment merit ment that It looks like hike an absurdity to seriously ly argue the question He lie admitted the wisdom of at tho the law that limits the administration of at drugs to those properly qualified for tor that ser service s serIce r vice Ice but he df that It was the In Intention of ot th law to restrict curatives of or on an Intangible nature so ns III to prevent th Q o n not nt t claiming to be doctors to use uso these methods Clergymen n the court pointed out prayed for Cor the sick Was that service medical ol and It if co so were the doctors to monopolize It Under such K tr construction every ent clergyman woul bo be brought to t trial The treat treatment treatment ment he h added by th defend defendants defendants ants might he be called It certainly is I I not medical The Th decision re rc verses varies the Judgment or the police court by which the defendants defendant were found foun 1 guilty Guilt as ns charged end and fined 50 10 and costs cants cos tB It will be generally admitted that who believe In healing by b faith not In cases of or sickness be pro pre prevented vented from seeking to obtain relief relict by that list means but they would be barred batted from doing so 80 were faith healers to bo be prosecuted for unlawful practice pro At Atthe Atthe 1 the same time faith healers should hould not by b their Influence prevent the tho lIon of ot tried remedies b by skilled Allied i i clans There should bo ho common sense i In n nil timings things frt tJI tm Laul lul advises a n tented a Id ailment of which a 11 friend suffered And AmI this his evidently not for tor lack lock of ot faiths faith Or br brn n h of ot power to r b ll sickness SS rind prayer should not tint be bo consid considered ered ns as 1 contrary to the scientific application application cation of ot any known laws of ot nature They are arc rather an nit Rid mild to 0 such trent treat treatment lt ment nent They tire rite te of oC utmost value when no I trice baa reached r the limit of ot her resources or when she silt Is confronted with facts fur for which she has hils found no satisfactory Manufactory explanation In such cases lUIes faith often otten rises above all nil difficulties nut and soars upward as ns the tho eagle which w no laboriously constructed 1 to cross the time foaming rivers no lork tunnels through which to roach reach the other side ald of ot tho mountain A 4 great many modern healers hoa wo we believe miss the full tull truth when they a 1 hostile attitude toward science mini act as It If tho the Got Clod of at nature were different from the tho Omnipotent In whom faith rests and to whom prayers are arc dl di directed reeled |