The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-03-29

passive eta'n, aud lei the treattf 40 you
believing and understanding Tor yon
When told Miss Miner that. she said
sould not do q, III; you must reallEs ,h,
p oil life wss from the Ibanite And ubc
said 1 tsd alwsys s'posed II wW bu,
didn't see what odds that made shout m,
rheumstism, she tnnred up her nose
Then Miss Melcber tried 10 explain b
me that the Iniiniie meant ildnits health
aud considering that we came from ib
Iodnitc aud lived 10 the Indnite. w mus
have infinite health. too. II We only real
ized IL.
"Yes, said L." said /. ''our souls cam,
from the Iu6oite. aud ongh, TO live 10 tb,
Initiate; bu, these poor mortal bodies
. That's just 1t. said Miss Folsom
!. You don't realize. Miss BAXTER. that tb,
Ego has nothing to do with the body =
nothing NJ all The body Is mefs ms
chine. . mere lump Of matter, and there
be no disease, no sickness. no medicine
Why. just imagine machine being sick 7
I've seen my sewing machine in spssms
before now, Miss Folsom. says |. And
Miss Melcher couldn't help snickeriag.
"But Miss Folsom WAS going to have
her say out. That is just what say.
) That is what DIR. Sage says. When you
once realiz, that it's oil in the mind, that
the body can't be sick. aud that the mind
lives in the 1ntiniie, aud that the Inhnite
is Iufoiie health, how blind and unrea-
sonsbie IL is to talk OF disease as il il were
a reality"
well, they did tie it up pretty tight,
didn', they2 The body couldn't be sick
becaus it vas matter. and the mind
eoudn'l be sick because il was mind, but
how did t,ey account for cancers ard fe-
vers aud diphtheria ? oh, those are all
Appearances that have deuded the race
for so long that the belief iu sicknes is
nov stronger than the belief 10 health.
"Maris never quite went into the fni
cles OF il like the rest. aud when / went
back on her for her explanation she rather
shirked it. She dill say, though, that for
quiIe spell the notion that she conldn't
be sick was great prop to her: and it
might have been longer only she went it
too strong and took an awful natural
cold, and appeared to have very bad
throat.
II haven't begun to tell you half the
things they said, for it all did confuse me
considerable; but can tell you bow the
mind cure came ont with all that family -
q straight story, just as it happened, for
| watched 'em well, to see how long they
could toe the mark. At first they sort OF
tripped up end down stairs, and they all
smiled good deal, and talked about what
beautiful world this WAS. and what
sacred and delightful thing it was TO be in
this Thought and how 'ungrown' and
foolish and wicked it was TO believe ia |
sickness.
"Miss Folsom left Off her glasses, and |
Miss Melcher went without her rubbers,
and Miss Mixer sat on boards and met
committees all day, aud went to concerts
and lectures at night. and they were never
tired nor hungry. nor hot nor cold. nor
wet nor dry, ] was going to say That
reminds me There was lot OF mind
cure treaters that came about the house
to visit the saints and treat the sinners.
One OF these treaters was young woman
that had FIVE dollars an hour and she came
rigged up in different clothes every time.
One warm day in the spring she said she
had been to Mind Cure Convention in
Boston, and there she had seen most
ridiculous sight "A woman wa ng fan
She was glad to say there wa only one.
The idea that beings living that high
sheosophical plane could fer from
heat +
Her patient was an old lady that had
asthma and heart disease, and she painted
and gasped most Of the time. poor thing /
Two or thre, tr!aters tried her, two |
dollar one aud three dollar one. aud fin-
ally this five dollar one. aud they couldn't |
do thing with her, any Of EN-. because q
she cooldn't overcome ber belief in Der =
body
"Well. | was telling yen how these .
nigh. flyers cut around Oh their hot water q
md turnips ard stuff 1t wasn't long be- i
ore could s'e they were b,3iuning to h
ook rather peaked Oae wet day Miss n
Mecher walked two miles without her h
ubbers, sud then sat nobody knows how Q
ong at theosoply meeting. The next Il
morning she didn't come down stsirs. At 4
ioon Miss Folsom sri,l hat Diana 'ap &
reared TO be sick By The text day she u
Vas In ,nch wey that they broke down
nd sent for the doctor, End that was the q
ast Of Diana MeloL.r for good three
nonihs II was typhoid. you rec. L
"Rgh 10 the midst of her sickne s. u
1ord came that Mrs Augell, slso a
hining light, had died; and eiore they n
.irly tot over that blos DIR Lord, the
igb priest Of the iheosophers, who bad o,
'iej his best to save Miss Aogell. had ia
ole after her al
"The weeping si.terhood began to trem- G
lie, but TIE tisuach old doctor they had te
Alled 10 for Miss Melcher watched her Ia
I'd fed her ADD dosed her. sni 80 abe AZ
ulled lhroush n
by aud by Miss Mixer tainted away Ia
ID fell of board she bad been sitting III
D Tor four or five hours, aud when the d
,st Of the committee brought her to. she +,
tinted rigb, away sgsin. aad they bad . "a
me Of II getting her home. She was Of bi
le hooks for three OF four months. and ",
. ! two ti1i. 81 doctor. and three treat. in
= oi aad 90, ani b ,licve she calls her
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