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No matter what siz£? |yim need, v- we can fill the ordefc %rdm|M!y.W;?"< ' ; MCHENRY LUMBER cd * • <>UALITY AND SERVICE FIRST ^ * A ^~'W9k ***** (( m £k M m r> sis. JACOB JUSTEN Mchenry, IM.. th» parish priest In 1873 the groat "rational" French- pilg^imagw Were inaugurated. later the basilica was eimtinttfR and thl statue solemnly eMwpad. In 1883 the foundation stone of ano^ier church was laid, as the first was ho longer large enough. It was boUt jit thft foot of the basilica and.was conwfentted in 1901 §nd called the Church of file Rosary. Pope Leo XIII authorized a special office and a mass , in commemoration of the apparition, and in liH>7 Pius X extended the observance of this feast to the entire church; it is now observed on February 11. Never has a sanctuary attracted such throngs. At the end of the year 1908, when the fiftieth anniversary of the apparition was celebrated, al~ tho the record really only began from 1867, 5297 pilgrimages had been -registered and these had broight 4,919,- 000 pilgrims. Individual pilgrims are more numerous by far than those who coma in groups. To their number must be added the visitors who do not come as pilgrims, but who are attracted by a religious feeling or sometimes merely by the desire to see this farfamed spot. The company of the Chemins de Fer dp Midi estimates that the Lourdes sttrelon receives over one million travellers per annum. Every nation in the world furnishes its contingent. Out of the total of pilgrimages given above", four hundred and sixty-four came from countries other than'France. They are sent by the United States, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Italy, England, Ireland,"Canada, Bolivia, Brazil, etc. The bishops lead the way. At the end of the year of the fiftieth anniversary, 2013 prelates including 546 archbishops, 10 primates, 19 patriarchs, 69 cardinals, had made the pilgrimage to Lourdes., But more remarkable still than the crowd of pilgrims is the series of wonderful occurrences which take place under the protection of the celebrated sanctuary. Passing over spiritual cures, which more often than not escape human observance, we shall confine ourselves to bodily diseases. The writer of this article has recorded every recovery, whether partial or complete, and in the first half century of the shrine's existence he has counted 3962. Notwithstanding very careful ' statistics which give the names and surnames of the patients who have recovered, the date of the cure, the name of the disease and generally that of the physicians who had charge of the case, there are inevitably doubtful or mistaken cases, attributable, as a rule, to the excited fancy of the afflicted one and which time soon dispels. But it is only right to note: first, that these unavoidable errors regard only secondary cases which have not like the others been the object of special study; it mast also be noted that the number of such cases is equalled and exceeded by actual cures which are not put on record. The afflicted who have recovered are not obliged to present themselves and half of theni do not present themselves at the Bureau des Constatations Medicales at LtfUrdes, and it is from this bureau's official reports that the list of cures is drawn up. The dRimate that about 4000 cures have been obtained at Lourdes within the first fifty years of the pilgrimage undoubtedly considerably less than the actual number. The Bureau des Constatations stands near the shrine and there are recorded and checked the certificates of maladies, and also the certificates of cure; it is free to all physicians, whatever their nationality or religious belief. Consequently, on an average from two to three hundred physicians annually visit this marvellous clinic. As to the nature of the diseases which are cured, nervous disorders so frequently mentioned, do not furnish even the fourteenth part of the whole; 278 have been counted, out of a total of 3962. The present writer has published the number of cases of each disease or infirmity, among them tuberculosis, tumors, sores, cancers, deafness, blindness, etc. The "Annales des Sckejaces Physiques," a sceptical review whose chief editor is Doctor Ch Richet, profwsor at the medical faculty of Paris, said in the course of a long article, apropos of this faithful study: "On reading it, unprejudiced mind® cannot but be convinced that the facts stated are authentic." Their Cause.--There exists no natural cause capable of producing the cures witnessed at Lourdes which dispense an unbiased mind from tracing them back to tfle particular agency of God.. Thos# who refused to believe in a miraculous intervention sought at first the scientific interpretation of the occurrences in the chemical composition of the water of the grotto. But it was then declared by an emi nent chemist, officially appointed to make the analysis, and his statement has since been corroborated, that the water contained no curative properties of a natural character. Then the incredulous said, perhaps it operates thru its temperature, or the results obtained at Lourdes may be accounted for by the bathing in cold water However, everyone knows that hydro therapy is practised elsewhere than at Lourdes, and that it does not work the miracles of curing every kind of disease, from cancers to troubles which bring on blindness. Besides, many ailing ones are cured without ever bathing in the basins of the grotto; this decides the question. (Therefore, those who deny supernatucal intervention attribute the wonderful results seen at Lourdes to two other causes. The first is suggestion. To this #e answer unhesi- MCHENRY'S RSDAY,-NOVEMBE* 18 Puck Jones - IN-- 1 of the Land where tfce (MM _ man wins. 1P$I. & SAT?. NOV. 19 A 20 & UNIVERSAL FEATURE VV. WITH jy - Mildred Hanlif -IN :';P, ' 1 FORBIDDEN By Loia Weber ; --AND WKN StyfflY'SrA WAS ftWY SATURDAY MAJINEE 2:3# ; Sunday, November 21 William Farnum IN Wings of the Morning From the fsmoa$ novel by Louis Tracy --AND 4 A SUNSHINE COMEDY | MONIffiY BUSINESS § •• MATINEE AT^m 1 . •• *|t,;fl|J6SPAV. NOVEM BER '23 P Louis Huff •' rN ' What Women Want THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 25 George Waist? • --IN-- 1 The Dead Line Until' fwrthur notice there will be no shows at this Theatre on Monday or Wednesdiy tatingly that suggestion is radically powerless to furnish the hoped-for explanation. Omitting nervous or functional diseases, since they are in the minority among those registered as cured at the medical office of the grotto, and the fact that-we are now establishing does not require them to be taken into account, we may confine our attention to organic diseases. Can suggestion be used efficaciously in diseases of this nature? The most learned and daring of the suggestionists of the present day, Bernheim, a Jew, head of the famous school of Nancy, the more advanced rival of the Ecole de la Salpetriere, answers in the negative in twenty passages of the book in which he has recorded the result of his observations: "Hypnotisme, suggestion, psychotherapie." (Paris, 1903, 2nd edition). Studying this work we find also that in the very cases where suggestion has a chance of success, as in certain functional diseases, it requires the co-operation of time, it cures slowly and progressively, while the complete cures of Lourdes are instantaneous. Therefew* curative suggestion is no explanation. It is not suggestion that operates at Lourdes; the cause which cures acts differently and is infinitely more powerful. There remains the last resource of having recourse to some unknown law and of saying, for instance, "How do we know that some natural force of which we are still ignorant does not peraie the marvellous cures which are attributed directly to -God ?' How do we know? In the first place, if a law of this nature did exist, the pilgrims of Lourdes would not be cognizant of it any more than the rest of mankind; neither would they know any better lhan others how to set it in motion. Why should this law operate for them and not for others? Is it because they deny its existence and the others believe iq it? Moreover, not only there does not exist, but there cannot exist, and consequently will never^ exist, a natural law producing ir^stantaneously the regeneration of tissues affected with lesion, that is to say, the cure of an organic disease. Why so? Because any growth and consequently any restoration of the tissues of the organism is accomplished--and this i3 a scientic fact--by the increase and growth of the protoplasm* and cells which compose every living body. Every existing protoplasm comes from some former protoplasm, and that from a previous one and so on, back to the very beginning; these generations (the fact is self evident) are necessarily successive, that is, they require the cooperation of time. Therefore, in order that a natural force should be able to operate a sudden cure in an organic disease, the essential basis of life as it is in the present creation would have to be overthrown; nature as we know it would have to be destroyed and another created on a different plan. Therefore, the hypothesis of unknown forces of nature cannot be brought forward to explain the instantaneous cures of Lourdes. It is logically untenable. As a matter of fact, no natural cause, known or unknown, is suf ficient to account for tile marvellous cures witnessed at the foot of the celebrated rock where the Virgin Immaculate deigned to appear. They can only he frfM the intervention of God. George Bertrin. > •..•.Capital, Surplus and Profits " VfWM >V'S - t, litptpsi total Resotirces over * A;** '.*** wmt ^"Y /\ xx >^1 ' * ^ w 11 ** v, 1 ^ .m - • , ' - v 'ifV - j x v - * ' - • - *» ' s, v' -'-r -'1 1 H. FEGERS, Presidertt .">\ CARL W. STENGER, Cashier * ^ ir ftp, SIMON STOFFEL, Vice Pres. GERALD ]. CAREY, Asst. Cashier 3' ••.i- •**•!) P. S. WEBSTER, Vice Pre», £. t. WAGNER, Cba^. of Baud# . . - 'V ^ .. «'•>». i': ! I -V fett'v-.? • T •» • ?' 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