Show FAITH CURES CUBES t according to english newspapers two laboring men recently were convicted of manslaughter for refusing to medical aid for their sick children in call in both cases the little patients died one of the defendants made the fol following lowin g statement 1 in the epistle of st james it is wild said that if we are afflicted we should aray and if merry we should st sing egand and it sick we should call in the elders of g taft churell church who should pray and an with oil in the name of the lord I 1 have seen in numerous cases deliver ances which god has wrought among his people I 1 can only say with job the lord gave and the lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the lord the judge asked the prisoners whether for the future they would comply with the law and provide medical attendance in case of sickness but both declined to make any pledge to that effect the judge said he would have to pass a sentence of imprisonment upon them but when the hour set for sentence came he dl dismissed s them with a lecture regarding their duties to provide the services of a doctor for the members of their families probably the judge felt justified in liberating these men whose conscience did not permit them to ask doctors to stay the hand of death the case deserves notice as an indication that a more tolerant spirit is beginning to be manifested toward the various modern methods of fighting disease only a few years ago the idea of ignoring the pills and drugs of the authorized physicians and substituting sti faith prayer and anno inting with oil was considered dangerous fanaticism and the adherents of homeopathy and the eclectic school shared a similar fate at present people are beginning to look more kindly not only upon these methods but on christian science 11 mind c cures ur es 11 and similar irregular modes of healing the true reason of this is undoubtedly a growing conviction that medical science used to claim a good deal more than was warranted wax ranted by the results obtained and also a number of truly miraculous cures effected apparently only by faith evidence of this kind will not down however it if at present medical medic al science and faith cures seem to be antagonists to the extent that those who believe in the latter out of conscientious scruples must refuse to have anything to do with the former or that the devotees of science must prosecute the faith healers this antagonism depends chiefly on misunderstanding der standing A broader knowledge of natural laws will in time bring about a reconciliation faith does not exclude the use of any remedy proposed by genuine science and tested by experience faith is practical in its character even when it operates on lines not yet thoroughly understood by science |