Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-13
(PublisAsd By Rsqusst.l
MIND AND BODY
W. =. EVANS IN aSs-cuRz AND SCIENCE OF trE

ave must here 10 work;
And men who work. can obly work for men,
And, aOt TO Wors In vsla NUT comprehend
Humanity, and so work humanity,
And raise mems bodies sful by raising ssuls,
A God does, rst-"-MTs. Browning.
The method Of cure which is now at
tracing so much attention, is based on
the principle that the mind is the most
real department of our complex nature,
and that oil diseases, especially Of so
called nervous type, and OF 9 chronic form,
arise from some Antecedent mental dis
turbApce, and ere only the outward expres-
sion of that spiritual inharmony. These
sustain to each other the perpetual rela'
ton of cause and effect. The one can
have no existence without the other. By
q Law Of correspondence, the mental abnor-
maity records itself in the morbid condi-
ZION of the body, which is q perpetual
creation of the mind. The mental condi-
ZION of the patient is not As il Ia usslly
viewed By the medical practitioner, mere
symptom, of secondary importance, but 1t
is the prime element, the underlying reaG-
", Of the disease.
The morbid condition OF the body is
symp,oustic Of the unsouniness Of the
mental state.
This invests the mental aspect of dis
ease with an importance that is entirely
overlooked, or at least undervalued, in the
prevailing systems Of medication. Few
psruons are aware Of the extent to which
the mind influences the physical organism.
The mind creates the body, and always 10
its own image and likeness, and Is the
body's health or mslady.
Al the physiological processes, and all
the vital movements are affected By con-
scious or unconscious, q voluntary or To-
voluntary, mental force. Given partica.
lar morbid sction of the mind, and q cor
responding bodily condition foil Tvs with
undertaking certainty; for as Schelling sf-
firms, what the soul predicts, nature tul
Ellis. A feeling Of shame ipjscts the cap
illsriss of the race with arteriAl blood, and
a blush is suffused over the Sountensnee.
Fear blsnches the cheek, and weakens the
action of the heart. Melancholy, anxiety,
remorse, and all the depressing mental
states are invisible seulptors that form The
body into their outward expression. If
these mental states become permansnt,the
corresponding bodily condition will be
chronic.
Such being the influence of the mind in
the inception and progress OF disease, the
true physician will inquire for the spirit
ual side of the mslsdy first, and look at
the tongue, feel the pulse, and examine
rne excretions afterwards, as matters of
minor consequence. All diseases, as dYs.
pepsis, rheumatism, and a functional DIS
turbsnce of the liver or kidneys, have their
special mental states as the root OF the
nalady, without which they could not ex-
let; and it is 8 general law that where q
disease is accompanied by a particular
morbid mental action, to teach the patient
how to induce upon himself the opposite
mental status and to aid him IN doing 80,
will restore him TO health, and lie the divine
method of cure. AS sn effect can exist
opIy in its cause. if you correct the mental
state, the tap.root of the malsdy ID sundered,
and the poisonous plant We call disease,
dies of i,self, and the patient, or sufferer,
lives In health and blessedness. Ths sue
cessful healer of men bodies is not mere
physician, DISPENSER Of drugs, but doc
tor or teacher, AS the word signifies, an
instructor Of the souls Of men, ss Was
Jesus, the Christ; and bis method of cure
will be q school, not of medicine, but OF
health.
Ii has been The aim of medical science
since The days Of Hippocrstes 10 fnd
therapeutic agency or ssDstiVe device that
in the cure Of disease shall act otto, tuto,
ct iucunde, that is quickly, safely and
pleasantly.
We claina for the Mental cure system
that Is comes nearer the attainment OF this
ideal than any other system does or can.
the mind Of man, By divine right, Is the
absolute sovereign of tie whole physiologi
cal domain. By miod We mean that which
thinks. This is the significance OF the san
crit word from which our EogE=h term
mind and man are derived Man is mind not
oody) and mind is the thinAipg principls
Is is an absolutely fundamental principle
10 our MentsLcnrs system. that thought
and existence are Identical To say that
I AN, and 10 cay thar I think, are one and
the same. This Is IS immuts5ly and etern-
ally true as any ofrhs principles of geone'
trv. Hence it follows that as | think, 80 l
am. This is a doctrine of philosophy as
old a. the human race. More than q
thousand ysars before the commencement
of the Christian era, 1t wss affirmed BY
Solomon. and is truth which he derived
from The Jewish and Chsldean ksosls,
that "As man thinketh in bis hes't, so
ia he" prov XIII: We find also
in the Dhammapsds, one Of the books OF
the sacred canon Of Buddhism, nmong the
pro-erbial sayings Of which it is made up,
these golden words: "All that we are is
the result OF what We have thought; it ia
founded on our ,houghts it is made up OF
our thoughts" ItIhis is true, then IL ire.
sis,ably follows that all diseases Of mind
and thence of the body are the product OF
a wrong way of thinking or if you prefer
il, of q wrong way Of believing, which
amouuts 10 the same. To educate g pa.
rent into right way OF thinking, Is to cure
him of bis mslady. Spirit is the creator
Of ia own environment. The mind makes
and governs the body. The physical Or
uAnism is not the result Of tortuirous
eopcourse, or running together. az the word
signifies, Of atoms. The mind in it's uu-
conscious aud instructive action, is the in
telligent plastic principle and formative
force, and the body IL perPetuslly organ
ized and crystahzed under Its controlling
Influence. Hence q patient should be In
strucred and aided to make an intelligent
voluntary use of all those mental forces
that most effect the physical organism, a.
faith, Imagination, and the creative power
Of thought. By voiionsl effort, T. ese
can be made to modify the action of an
uuFulV organ and cure its disease whether
organic or functional The system Of cure
urscrieed in the various schools OF Boston,
under the misue Of the name OF metsphy-
sics. has as its fundamental method the op
posing of YOUR thought to the morbid
thinking Of the patient. You combat in
thought, and By verbal uttersncs, his false
wsy Of tbiukiDg-ssyiDg to bin in thought
what Won would have him think and be-
IisVa. Thus arguing him down: and con;
batting Sy the silent dover Of thought all
his illusions regarding himself. There
are other methods, and better ones. bat
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