Superstition Is Not Dead
By Editor
Superstition Is Not Dead.—Much is being said in some New York newspaper over the operations of a so-called "sorceress," who used the incantations of a dream book to cure a child with a gangrened leg. The child died. It appears now that the woman did not use the incantation for gangrene, but for pain. This is an aggravated case. What about our politicians who carry rabbits' feet in their pocket "for luck"? or our brave soldiers, and doughty prize-fighters, and muscular athletes of base and football, who must have their "mascot," or meet defeat? And what about saints' bones, and the anathemas—the curse causeless that will not come. No, reader, superstition, gross and refined, is not dead nor dying nor waning, but how about faith? It is a simple fact, as faith wanes, superstition waxes. The ultimate choice will be between the two.