Life — October 5, 1905 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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0 THE EDITOR OF LIF Dear Sir: V ama devout r tion, and it lies on my table in the Lenjoy rest, the quips at the medical professio of which are, I must confess, often des Your opposition to vaccins cost lives, tective value, der of your office waiting-room, along with the most n will, 1 fear, s there is no doubt of its pro- the experience of Germ alone, which is, I believe, the best vaccinated country in the world, being more than con- vincing. But this is not what | wish to write Lire. about. A friend of mine, who is of a boastful nature ates a trip through England, Germany, Sweden, France and Au He wants (I United States, t beset his ways. Hi s recent strike here. He A ger crican Bridge Company threatens to some of his building plans. cently robbed. He carries inst His fathe way rebates allowed on fruit transportation from Michi A relative is quarantined in New Orleans, Norway, certain) to. boast of the he finds that d culties personal liberties were restricted during t money in his business through it. eral strike of the up His house was re- e in the Equitable. slaw suffered on ace count of Fr, several of his neighbors lost sons from typhoid balmed beef at C ish war, and hickamauga in the late he was deeply impressed ¢ Bennington disaster. ¢ last election in his ward a scamp was made alderman, and he swears that the ballot boxes were tampered with, The evidence of colossal grafting in so many cities and in such high places has painfully affected him. ‘The action of the Senate in killing Mr. Roosevelt's ad and treaties of peace was a hard blow to him the evident powers of the moneyed me corporations at Wash lips. I, therefor behalf. of on his trip abroad ? Yours respectfully, Medicus, gton have closed his am writi @ to you in his Is there anything that he can AUGUST 12, 1905. DITOR OF LIFE. Sirs Ina issue of Lire, Mr. Clarence C. Gates states hi that if Christian Science is not mesmerism, it is lus He concludes that ther accounting for the Christian Scientist's prayers other than on the basis of “hy (mesmerism) ; in fact, presum prayers of Jesus and His apost saved, were only " sug If Mr, Gates proposes to use the term “sugges tion" in a sense broad enough to include all mental opini othing—a de- is no way of sto imply that the which healed and “JPY E effort in behalf of good, su plicit re Christian Science, that Cl but ch as prayer and an das is prac ne may, of course, make his point cis a form of “ suggestion” ; s process of reasoning is not hone: in” has a technical ng ed and applies wholly to It is the exercise of human will ns of which the though ed by another J or evil. ly capable of ing good, depends alone upon God an izes Him as the only real power, and the sses of its p of thei ance upon ¢ iced in stian Scie human thought. power, by m of one wal are controlled oF domi ality, either for . which is and stronger m actitioners are always in the ace upon God, and purpose of Christian Science is in b presence of G is established upon this pre ile hyp: the omnipotence and om: suggestion may accord neithe: power to God sential te theory of hing of C practice. Not an es- istian Science isto be found ¥ By oy, TO MARRY ME? 1 “Stowe. He: wnat! You rerese GUESS YOU FORGET THERE'S ROVAL BLOOD I¥ Shes OM, GO ONL THAT WAS ONLY A SHAS PRINCE YOU BIT, We readily errorin human "of one form or the experience er tothe a ted person, but insist th of hypnotic suggestion in usi ntidote anc ris not correct, even as tos. ke for anot gives no genuine relief, but rather increases one's n, while to gain and apply the true under- z of the subject destroys the error and hes h establis| In Christian Science it is nony. the truth yed which cures disease, and not The op auto-s ion” or hypnotic suggestion, methods are exactly opposite. The distinction bet Christian employed, to mortal th to the tho: ween hypnotic suggestion and ience lies in the quality of the thought stinetly ught, Christian Science applies only ts of God nd while the former refers Sincerely, M4. Cornett Wilson, Christian Science Publication Co for the State of New York. New Vork, Sept. 14, 1905. D™ EDITORS: Knowing your deep interegt in the cause of anti-vivisection, Lenclose you an extract from the address of an ardent advocate of vivisection, in which to bolster up his cause he quotes from Sir Lyon Playfair : Another interesting article is on the debt of man= kind to vivisection, Dr. Keen quotes in a note from a specch in Parliament against t Vivisection bill, i ich Dr. (now Lord) P! told how by testing a new substance on two rabbits he killed them, but saved ithe life of the great physician, Sir James Simpson, who had proposed to try the drug on himself, Let me give another Lord Play fai A few years ago, two young German chemists were experimenting upon a poison which I will not even name, for its properties are $o terrible, It is postponed in its action, and then produces idiocy or death, An experi would have t. hee ful poison, but in igno they became its unh and the other suffered intellectual death. Isit not strange that a man of such intelli- gence cannot sce the difference between test i and tor- turing d agony to interest a High School class or a set of embryo physicians to whom the experiments will not be of the slightest use ? With Sir sympathize—since the instance, nent on a mouse or a rabbit the danger of thi ace of its subtle appy victims, for one died, 1 poisons on rabbits, and mangl andc, s, prolonging th yon Playfair's tests we might result in speedy death, and may aid science—but the experiments at Cornell were by martinets of physical science and had no result except to brutalize the wit- nesses and torture the victims. Lremain, yours, Mercy. ‘0 THE EDITOR OF LIFE. Dd. Noting that your paper seems to feel that there is no one in the field who will take r Sirs care of cases of cruelty to ai I desire to 1c Society mit employing nspectors (having only one at present), but nt sent to our office, gt Park Row, ate attention. Yours very t many any ¢ will receive imme David Belais. w York, August 27, 1905. © THE EDITOR OF LIFE. Dear Sir: 1 have to received nar letter of t order for ne zath ult, enclosing money being a donation from one of your re for our Dogs’ Home. I enclose the receipt, and send you, under separate cover, a copy of our last report. $19.80, T take this opportunity of thanking you ost heartily for so kindly and repeatedly bringing our work to the notice of your readers, a large number of whom have re- sponded generously to the appeal which you lished. Large! sequence of their support, we are now able to purchase the site and hope to begin building very shortly. With renewed tharks, Very truly yours, Leonerd T. Hawksley, Hon. Director. comicbooks.com