The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-17

with.
"If you mean by external aif.s' proper
air, food, temperature and care, say no.
When you EMPLOY regular physician you
don't depend on the potency of his medicine
alone, do your Neither would any sane and
honest physician undertake to cure you Of Q
lever II you lived in damp and mouldy
dwelling
Christian science is another name for
mind cure. The ecclesiasts have taken up
the subject and are wrangling over it. Some
are hostile to it, declaring. perhaps without
knowing much about it, that its tendency is
atheistical. Others believe in it and prac-
tice it under the name of the prayer cure'
or faith cure" Rev. Joseph Cooke is said
to uphold it,
1t isn't easy to get practical rules on
sycho-therapeutics. | heard both men and
women, who assumed to know all about the
mental cure, talk hours thereon without be-
ing able to seize on a point 1 could make
practical. How to begin, that's the question
nobody answers. Perhaps the teachers tell
when they instruct their classes; the takers
do not. The fog about is quite as dense as
the regular medical code could desire
Mrs. A. NJ. Diaz, president of the woman's
Educational and Industrial Union, is an en-
thusiastic believer in the mind cure. She
declares it has opened new world to her.
From her CLEANED the following principles
of the system:
I'm spiritual healing the Bible assertion
that God good has al power and all place
ha
person is spirit not flesh Good is the all.
the real, Evil is the nothing. With God
all things are possible to us, and we may
dominate flesh and sin. The little word ,uith
comprises the whole matter In our oneness
with God lies our salvation-not merely our
future salvation, but salvation right off,
now and all the time. We must be recep-
tive, seeking; must harbor no fear; must
recognize and feel the perfect love that
casteth out fear" In short, Mrs. Diaz'
gospel of healing sounds very much like the
Christian religion brought down to every day
application.
Another teacher Of the transcendental
philosophy, who draws his lore from DR..
Evans, asserts that there are within the in
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unused spiritual energies and potencies that
can save the soul and heal the body of its
maladies, and that they are only now being
discovered and utilized Anyhow, our
Inner beings" figure quite conspicuously in
the mind cure. Those who are not sure that
they have inner beings are likely to make
slow progress in this branch of idealistic
philosophy.
DR.. Evans puts it down as basic assertion
that all life consists in either thought or
feeling; that thoughts are things, the only
real things III the universe-substantial reali-
ties, transmissible entities. That the more
direct and spiritual way of transmitting
them Is by sensation, not words, either spoken
or written. A thought impaired to another
may be made to inclose feeling, and that
thought has in it creative force.
He also asserts that thought is an interior
speech, or inward word, the proper language
OF souls, the universal language of spirit
He says: 'We ought to ascertain, as far as
practicable, the precise nature of the dis
ordered mental state, or fixed mode of thought
which is the spiritual root Of the patients
malady, and which has crystallized, through
the law OF correspondence, into an organic
expression in the body. This should be at
tackled by the psycho-therapeutic force
Thought medicine) from every point OF
approach. What is called magnetism, which
has proved itself one of the most efficient
means Of the cure of disease, owes its eff
cheney to the fact that in its Utmost
reality it is but the sphere Of ouI
thoughts and feelings. This subtle spiritual
principle continually exhales from us and
forms en- atmosphere around us charged with
the living forces Of our minds. The secret
OF the influence Of magnetism is the inHu
ence of the thought and will of the operator
over the mind, and through the mind Over
the body of another.
The human body is the external world
which the soul creates for its manifestation
and as the theatre of its activity. All out
ward things are but the deterioration OF
ideas. Ideas are the images and inmost real.
ity Of all created things, and always tend Il
an external or material manifestation Il
the mind forms an idea of q change in the
bodily status, and holds itself steadily and
tenaciously to that idea, it originates, or ii
least intensifies, an effort of nature-that is,
an unconscious action of the mind to ex
press itself outwardly, and to form the body
after the pre-existing idea"
Solomon's assertion that, as a man think.
eth in his heart, so is he, has been given Q
fresh start by the mind cure. We are told
that we can think ourselves into every good,
bodily and spiritually; but the thinking must
be steady thing. There must be no flag,
ging, no dropping of stitches in our thought
robes to ravel into unsightly rents; no de
spairing, no fearing, no doubling We must
nerer quit our holds. We must, in short
learn the power of thought and rely upon it
Then, as the scriptures have promised us, we
shall ''be as gods" GERTRUDE GARRISON.
FROM THE CRADLE.
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