Article October 18, 1900 Issue

What Science Really Means

John H. Wheeler

Kansas City Journal

To the Journal:—There appeared in your paper of recent date, an article entitle, "After the Scientists."

The occasion for the above article was the enforcement of the law requiring clairvoyants, palmists, magnetic healers, astrologers, trance mediums, and phrenologists, to pay a license of one hundred dollars for the privilege of practising their profession in this city. It appears that the two individuals who were notified by the proper officer to take out a license chose to declare themselves Christian Scientists, and, therefore, not under the license law.

This might appear misleading, and convey the impresion that Christian Science, clairvoyance, palmistry, magnetic healing, etc., were one and the same; while the fact remains, that no two methods could be further removed from each other than these. One is the quintessence of Christianity, and is Immanuel—God with us—the ever-present Christ casting out sin, and healing the wounds of the erring one. The other systems are but different phases of mesmerism, that have been practised from the time of Pharaoh by astrologers and soothsayers, until now, and as the astrologers of Pharaoh withstood Moses and sought to imitate the Christ power, which this brave old patriarch demonstrated, so they to-day seek by mental phenomena to imitate those mighty works, possible only to God and those who understand His healing law.

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