Christain Science Misunderstood, Believers Say
By MARK D. MITCHELL
Kanan Staff Reporter
Most people think Christian Scientists are "those persons who won't go to doctors." But according to the followers of this religion, Christian Scientists involve much more than self-healing—it's a way of life.
Christian Science was founded in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, who based its theology on the Bible. In 1875 she wrote the textbook for the Christian Science faith, "Science as a Science of Factualities," which serves as a basis for study of the Bible and a foundation for Christian Science.
In "Science and Health," Eddy fell for the guidelines for Christian Science, and this text and the Bible reflect a stature to Christian Scientists.
Christian Science worship consists of two services, one on Wednesday evenings and the other on Sunday morning.
Unlike other religions, there are no ministers or clergy in Christian Science because Eddy thought a trend of elitism would be established if one minister or group of clergy usually preached their own views.
Instead of a paid clergy, there are "readers" who prepare lessons from the Christian Science Quarterly, an internationally coordinated booklet that allows Christian Scientists all over the world to study and discuss the Christian Science scriptures. Readers are elected by the congregation for 3-year terms.
Readers are guided by a list of 26 subjects chosen by Eddy for these "lesson-sermons," which are repeated twice a year. Although these subjects are common, they may choose vary the approach to the subject to provide a fresh and timely application to current needs.
One factor that distinguishes Christian Science from most other
Western religions is the belief that physical disease as well as sin can be healed by spiritual means alone. The Christian Scientist is concerned with the use of drug, medication and from consultation with medical sources.
He may, however, consult a practitioner, a member of the Church who has devoted all of his time to public ministry through his work as a practitioner and practitioners registered nationally in the Christian Science Journal.
According to church doctrine, the source of healing must come through a spiritual understanding of man's relationship with God. The symbol of the Christian Scientist expresses the belief that man has the ability to heal himself—a crown of spades that symbolizes command from Christ, "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leeches, cast out demons."
Many Christian Scientists contend that this premise, the healing of
physical sickness by spiritual means, has caused most of the misunderstanding concerning their religion.
Mark Solist, Topoka junior and Christian Science practitioner, said Tuesday that the ignorance of most people toward Christian Science had led to a variety of misconceptions about Christian science and an aura of mystery and suspicion.
He said the primary misconception was that the Christian Scientists were totally against doctors and medicine.
"We believe that doctors are doing their highest sense of right by trying to help others in the best way they know how. But they seek a physical remedy only—they're trying to heal matter with matter," said Solts.
Solts said practitioners needed no special training, only a dedicated commitment to the work of healing. He said practitioners didn't administer drugs or medical aid for any kind; only prayer and meditation is
Any use of drugs or medication is forbidden in the Christian Science religion, said Solts, but the church insisted that those who choose to seek medical help.
involved.
take a patient who had been to a doctor unless that person chose to give up medical attention entirely. Barbara Pike, Wichita senior and part-time faculty member in the Science College Organization, agreed that most people were confused about Christian Science views on spiritual healing versus
"Christian Science and medicine definitely don't mix," said Soliz. "We won't condemn a person for seeing a doctor, but that person has turned his back on Christian Science."
Pike said Christian Scientists believed that all men had the ability to heal themselves, but that sometimes an individual had dif-
ficully in achieving an understanding of God. She said the practitioner helped these persons to gain this understanding, and through understanding the sick could be healed.
"This is not a mystical process at all," she said. "It's a change of consciousness, a perception of the truth."
Solis said practitioners weren't allowed to publicly reveal case histories of this healing through spiritual enlightenment, but he offered several incidents in his own life as testimony.
The index finger of his right hand was cut off by a car door several years ago. Solita aid. He refused the knife and had his mother call a practitioner her mother叫 a practitioner.
"I handered her a towel with the finger in it," he said. "The practitioner told her to place the finger on the hand and to bandage it. The only treatment used was that of prayer, and I have now regained full
use of that finger.
Although many examples of healing have been written up in Christian Science magazines such as the Journal or the Sentel, many people remain skeptical about the medical professions, especially the medical profession.
Dr. A, C. Mitchell, Lawrence physician, said he knew of "no known case where a patient has been admitted to the pathological disease by faith alone."
He said many instances of supposed healing by spiritual means resulted from the human body's remarkable regenerative powers.
"The body has the potential ability to recover spontaneously from 95 per cent of all illnesses without treatment," said Dr. Mitchell. "Even with other more serious diseases such as cancer, there may be cases where the body itself occurs. This occurs with albusists just as often as with Christian Scientists."
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Forecast: Mostly sunny and warme High uner 50s, low about 40.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, April 5, 1974
84th Year, No.120
Tennis Fever Grows At KU
Halt to Funding For 8 Groups Recommended
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The Student Services Committee of the Student Senate recommended last night that eight groups be denied funding from the student activity fee for fiscal year 1975.
Those eight groups are Women in Law, Dwight E. Dissenher International Law School, Graduate Linguistics Students, Education Linguistics Students, Association, Psychology Club, Anthropological Undergraduate Forum, Graduate Linguistics Undergraduate Forum, American Pharmaceutical Association
The committee will determine its recommendations later this week for other areas.
The committee can allot $13,314.96, which compares with about $40,000 in requests to the committee, Chris Davis, Leawood senior and chairman of the committee, said.
Recommendations by the committee are subject to approval by the senate in meetings at 7 p.m. next Tuesday and Wednesday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. Those senate meetings are public.
The committee also decided to consider the Graduate School Council as an umbrella organization for other graduate organizations.
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Dangerous Intersection
The intersection at 11th and Indiana streets is a sore place in the memories of drivers and passengers who were involved in the nine accidents that occurred at the intersection
last year. Altogether, there were 40 accidents last year on 11th Street between Kentucky and Indiana streets. (See Story Back Page.)
5 States Declared Disaster Areas
By the Associated Press
Rescue workers counted the dead yesterday and tried to help the living victims. A massive disaster in 49 years left more than 333 dead and thousands injured or homeless. Five states were declared federal disaster areas; damage reached into the hundreds of thousands.
The death toll in 11 states and Canada stood at 337.
"The destruction, the devastation is unbelievable," said Vice President Gerald R. Ford after flying over damaged areas of the country where the houses were reduced to matches."
Hospitals overflowed. In Dayton, Ohio, near baird-hit Xenia, ambulances arrived at the hospital after a blaze.
minute in the hours just after the tornado. Minor cases were treated in the hospital cafeteria. "We're unable to do anything out in Xenia," said radiologist Shirley Kitchen, returning Dayton. "There's only an portable X-ray. The rest of the power's
Whole communities in several states were without power.
Kentucky appeared to have suffered the most, with deaths reported in 15 counties.
The tornadoes and related storms that struck late Wednesday and early yesterday swept out the western states and Ontario, Canada. Whole buildings turned into piles of rubble; more than 30 buildings at the Army's Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala., were destroyed or damaged.
There were at least 40 dead in the tiny community of Brandenburg, Ky., alone, where twisted, grotesque wreckage was evident almost everywhere. Survivors faced the scary threat that faced shattered lives. "This street will never be the same," said Frank Thurman, 71, of Louisville, as he stared at a tree fallen on the street and the new trees are gone."
More than 150 homes and 100 businesses were destroyed in Monticello, Ind. Damage was estimated at $100 million. Two banks were destroyed and the president of one of them stood guard at his vault through the night.
Acting in response to pleas from state officials, President Nixon declared Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee disaster areas, making them more difficult to recover. Press Secretary Gerald Warren said more disaster declarations were expected.
Ohio at more than $100 million, including $75 million in Xenia. They said West Virginia suffered $1 million in damage and Michigan $3 million.
Insurance adjustors estimated damage in
The National Weather Service issued new tornado watch for parts of nine states. But forecasters said the conditions yesterday weren't the same as those that produced the earlier storms, which were created by an unusual collision of two air masses.
Wholesale Prices Surge in March
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wholesale prices advanced sharply in March as increases for industrial goods outweighed declines in farm and food prices, the government reported.
The Labor Department said the over-all wholesale price index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.3 percent last month following a rise of 1.2 per cent in February.
Though substantial, the increases of the past two months were more moderate than the increases in the November-January period
Industrial commodities advanced 2.9 per cent in March. This was the second biggest monthly increase since 1946. The rise was exceeded only by Last November's 3.2 per cent
Industrial prices are regarded as one of the most sensitive gauges of inflation in the economy, as processed to food prices which move erratically from month to month.
Farm products, processed foods and feeds dropped for the first time in four months, by a seasonally adjusted 2.1 per cent. This was caused mainly by decreases for livestock.
Since wholesale prices are usually reflected later at the retail level, higher prices for manufactured goods are likely in the coming months. However, there is no guarantee the decline in food prices will be passed along to consumers as supermarkets try to recoup profits squeezed in earlier months.
The sharp increase in industrial prices was partly caused by the lifting of price controls and less heavily influenced by rising fuel prices.
Herbert Stein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers called the March price report "markedly different" than in previous months, with farm prices declining and industrial commodities rising much faster.
BULLETIN
About 35 foreign students enrolled at the Intensive English Center at the University of Kansas staged a walkout early today in protest of "inadequate facilities, both academically and structurally."
The students planned to march from the Intensive English Center to Strong Hall at 9:30 this morning.
A list of seven demands of the foreign students included: construction of a new building, installation of a library, the hiring of full-time professional teachers and changes in examination procedures. Vaud Sartigaroth, Tehran senator.
Lack of funds and standardized tests doesn't permit fulfillment of the demands. Edward T. Erzmus, director of English Language Center, said this morning.
Committee Sets Tues. Deadline On Tapes Reply
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Judiciary Committee, declaring it had been patient long enough, has set a deadline of next Tuesday for the White House to reply to the committee's request for tapes of 42 presidential conversations.
"We will subpoena them if we must," said chairman Peter Rodino, D-N.J., yesterday, speaking for an apparently united committee.
Rodino's sternly wored message was fully endorsed by Rep. Edward Hutchinson, R-Mich., the ranking Republican on the committee, and other GOP members.
"We're not after irrelevant material," said Hutchinson.
The committee has been waiting since Feb. 25 for a reply to its request for the committee's assistance.
Rodino declined to say that a subpoena would be issued if the deadline passed without a response, but he said the committee should meet and decide on a course of action.
Needs Test for Loans Abolished by Congress
WASHINGTON—Guranteed student loans soon will be made easier to get thanks to a law passed vettedday by Conressu.
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The measure would eliminate the needs test for guaranteed student loans for students from families who have incomes of less than $20,000 a year.
Guarneeed student loans are made to students by private lenders, such as banks. The federal government may move some or all of the interest.
Students from families who earn less than $20,000 a year can receive interest subsidies in loans over $2,000 and under $2,000, if they qualify through a needs loan.
By a vote of 376-1 in the House and voice vote in the Senate, Congress sent the measure, which will go into effect in 45 days, to the White House.
Students from families making over $2,000 a year can get a student loan of up to $2,500 only if the needs evaluation shows they need one.
The measure would extend the authority of the federal government to pass the interest subsidy to June 30, 1975.
James G. O, Hara, chairman of the House Special Subcommittee on Education, said during hearings on the measure that it was designed a temporary way of addressing the issue.
O'Hara plans comprehensive hearings on the question of student financial aid in the near future.
Several bills, including one sponsored by Kansas Congressman Garner E. Shriver, will be reviewed at those hearings.
Interest in Shelter Program Waning
By BUNNY MILLER Karen Stuff Receiver
Suppose one night you awoke to the sound of the warning sirens. And suppose you turned on your radio to find out what was happening, and that a nuclear attack was imminent.
What would you do? Where would you go?
Many people don't know and don't care,
according to H. H. Belote, Lawrence
coordinator of emergency preparedness.
Once the subject of heated argument between the President and Congress and a preoccupation with hundreds of communities, the civil defense shelter program appears to be almost dead and forgotten. Gone are the days of solemn-faced children under military defense drills and rise is the maddening whine of the television test warning.
By ignoring the possibilities of disaster, delete said, we have created a dangerous atmosphere.
"People just will not take measures to protect themselves from a nuclear disaster," he said. "We've made an effort to acquaint people with our program locally, but they just scout at the idea of a nuclear attack here. That's something that only
happens to the other guy."
Belote said he could "count on two hands" the number of single family dwellings in Lawrence with air raid shelters, but couldn't give an exact figure because these families didn't want others knowing they bad shelterts in their homes.
The local shelter program, he said, consists primarily of those places where the buildings are located in University hill. With the exception of these buildings on the University hill, he said, none of the newer buildings in Lawrence was constructed with the idea of emergency housing.
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That sentiment shows a radical change from the climate of opinion during the early
"To my knowledge, in the past 20 years there hasn't been one public school built
experts have speculated that the lull in the cold war led to disinterest in the shelter program. The current 'peace race' with Russia has been hampered, with the Soviet system as well as gradual disarmament seemingly has convinced many Americans that the possibility of nuclear war is real.