SHEPHERD STANTON.
THE SLIMY "SAINT" STILL
SOUL-SAVING.
More Cases of Cancer "Cured " by Him.
Christcliurch the Happy Hunting Ground of Quacks and Humbugs.
If anyone had formed the opinion, that good shepherd Stanton, of Ohristchurch, by reason of the drastic unmasking, which has teen, his lot m two recent issues of "Truth," had made up his mind to close down, that opinion is quite an erroneous one. The soul-saving, cancercuring, hoary-headed and holy hypocrite is still goinfi it as strongly as ever. Despite last week's' powerful potion depicting the dubious "doctor" m his true colors, he came up smiling on the day following being advertised to deliver an address entitled "The Real and the Unreal" from "our. little platform" m Worcester Street. Apparently ,Stanton has a hide impervious to newspaper criticism, and means to hang' '6ft' 'to the bitter end. That he has, by his heartless hoaxing, inveigled a 1 section of the Christchurch public into tbe belief that he can. cure cancer is known, and. presumably , his profits from his puerile ."practise" are sufficiently large to make its abandon>ment only to be: thought of as a last extremity. Therefore, it remains to be seen whether t° is - m an Stanton can continue to dupe patients enough from an ignorant section of the public to make a living, or whether, by means of exposing m the columns oif this paper, his 'quackery and fraudulent methods, this .CANC^R^'CURING!', CORRUPTER can be hounded from his parasitical practice. What makes matters doubly worse m the case of Sorcerer Stanton ate the circumstances surrounding his dubious doctoring dodges. Here is no ordinary quack who takes a shop m an ordinary thoroughfare, plac* *ards -the window with a number ,of impossible testimonials, and .then waits for the sheep to come and be shorn, as they purely will be. "Saint" Stanton makes such ' methods look childish m their very simplicity. Not to him does' the shop window appeal. His methods soar far *above such cheap and nasty notions. He lords it m a > fashionable house m the best residential part of Christchurch, and there his Victims seek him out, and feel the more confident, by the environment of ; the place, that this man Stanton is what he claims to* be, a, specialist of specialists. Nor for his 'advertising' does he follow the ordinary ways and blazon himself and his '•'art' 1 m the columns of the press. Stanton's far above such commoto methods. He advertises per medium of— the Bible. In other words, his precious .. . .- , . 'PROGRESSIVE THOUGHT SOCIETY, which meets m the Oranse Hall, Worcester Street every Thursday and Sunday night— in God's name— is a device by Shepherd Stanton* not to 'propagate" ~tb6 gospel, but to propagate .its canting, cancer-curing , '. convener. There can be not the slights est doubt that, during -the two years he h?is been holding these meetings (under ( the guise of worshipping God) they have brought him numbers of gulled patients suffering with cancer. It is all very adroit, this advertising dodge of his, nut oncehay-f ing got his victim Stan'tom apbs clumsily enougi^. In the first place he makes his terms, varying upward from. 10s a week, he on bis part promising an absolute cure. Such, a promise shows Stanton tio be an un^ mitigated rogue, for the best, the cleverest doctors on earth cannot promise a cure for cancer, once firmly implanted m the body of its victim. What chance then has such a man as this, without medical diplomas, without any authority whatever except his own glib tongue? He tells his gull that he or she must -have perfect faith m him, must vlet his (Stanton's) mind .'be their mind. And then, beautious blasphemer, he prays with them. Prays loud and long to the Lord to direct His divine attention to : the fact (presumably)" that Stantoh's patient and victim has a cancer, which He, m His great goodliness, is asked to remove. Baldly, that is what occurs with each and every patient Stanton treats, and . readers will ittdge for themselves how successful the specialist is. Occasionally he proclaimsV with a blast of trumpets, a cure, and the faithful among his flock tell their friends what a wonderful man their shepherd is. The fact that medical men who afterwards examine the cancer "cured" swear that the "fortunate" one never suffered from, cancer at all doesn't affect thejjT adoration and ■gratuitousadvertisement of the "good" man. Meanwhile "Truth" has obtained the names of three more sufferers from cancer treated by Specialist Stanton and hastens to record them: .(It). Christopher Brown, sometiime a carpenter at the Addingtoni Workshops. Suffering: from cancer on the liver. Attended by Stanton, who guaranteed a cure. Paid Stanton m all £19. Result of treatment : Patient now m Chicistchurch Hospital attended by Dr. Thacker. (2) TVlrs. Greenfield, suffered with cancer m the breast; Became a patient of Stanton's through a friend who attended his religious meetings at Worcester Street, ;, Complete cure guaranteed also m * this case. Stanton's prognostication having been fulfilled. Mrs. Greenfield no longer suffers with cancer (or any other complaint) having been dead some time. (3) A man named Gordon, sufferin with cancer m .the jaw, came under Stanton's influence some 1 two years back. Stanton prayed with, and nreyed on, Gordon until his condition became so hope-, less as to be apparent to everyone when he retired from the case, giving as his reason that Gordon "had not sufficient faith." Dr. Orchard was sent for to attend Gordon before he died! The doctor is credited with havinn; expressed the opinion that it was a pity a doctor had beon summoned. Otherwise, on the man's demise) an inquest would
have been riecessary. when a glaring light would have been thrown on the treatment Gordon had received from the specialist. These are three more cases which Stanton has 'been implicated m. How mamy , more v'ictitas he has "cured" of cancer so successfully as these will probably never be known, but the detailing of the above should .give pause to the friends of any victim of the terrible cancer scourge be-. ~ fore calling m the saintly specialist to treat their cafte. They may rest content that, if a properly qualified medical man can do nothing for the patient, it is long odds they Will only waste time and mogtev by having any dealings with the snnfflpbusting, sin-sooiing old sinner, St?nton.
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NZ Truth, Issue 93, 30 March 1907, Page 5
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1,061SHEPHERD STANTON. NZ Truth, Issue 93, 30 March 1907, Page 5
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