Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-12
HOW TO CURE YoURsELF.
Brooklyn Teacher Of Mind Healing
Gives Away the Secret.

| pearance in Brooklyn Of Mrs. Newman, of Bos-
ton, who was the pioneer teacher of the new
| ''mental healing" She had been q pupil Of
Mrs. Eddy, but they had falling out, and Mrs.
Newman would not even call her teaching by
the same name. Mrs. Stuart, of Hyde Park,
! near Boston, followed her, and the first season
the two teachers prospered greatly and gradu-
ated many pupils who became healers and
teachers. Mrs. Eddy came, too, and her fol-
| lowers rallied around her. She was the author
OF a book and the head of a healing college in
Boston, and was more widely known than Mrs.
| Newman. The pupils were many, and after q
second winter the list of healers was
| extensive. Now the city is honey-combed with
mind curers, and 1t is noticeable that many
mediums and clairvoyants are ardent healers.
80 also are several well-known Bible-class
| teachers, who, while they use the Bible and
expound 1t to their listeners, intersperse their
! teachings with accounts of the "healing
science" A Bible-class can get accommoda-
| cannot. The profits Of this business are so
good that it's popularity is continuous, and il is
more respectable than mediumship. Hence,
| the appearance in its ranks of many of the
| spiritualistic fortune-tellers and clairvoyants
Women are the chief patrons of the mind
curers, and there are hundreds Of Brooklyn
women under treatment every day. The fees
vary, but % is the usual price paid at the house
of the healer.
For the lessons the price varies from ESQ to
$500, according to the fame of the teacher. An
| ordinary teacher gets IS for private lesson,
| and for a class of twelve she has $50 At first
the healers talked nothing but healing. They
wanted to tone up bodies that they might be-
| come ''the temples of the living God" but now,
| in many circles, the work is extended to the
| saving OF souls, and one hears a great deal
about holiness and sanctity and the power Of
prayer. With so many healers, it is a matter of
! wonder that there are any sick in the commu-
nifty; but there are, and the explanation is that
the people are not yet ready to take up the new
school and put down the old. To an outsider
the mind cure and mental science, faith cure
and Christian science are all one and the same
but the adherents of the different schools point
out differences All who practice seek to
preach. Religious apostles are as numerous
as mind-curers and it will surprise the teach
ers to know that in city as we'll supplied as is
Brooklyn with regularly ordained ministers of
the Gospel, there are so many lay teachers
engaged in expounding holiness. The women
as willingly pay for this as for christian
science" and popular teachers gather in the
dollars. The churches, these teachers de-
clare, are cold and dead and without spiritual
life, and the conventional, orthodox teaching
Is unsulted to the awakened consciences of the
pupils OF the new school,
One or two of the ministers have investigated
mental healing and the Rev. Mr. Ager of the
Swedenborgian church in Monroe place has
been called convert. He says, however, that
ne is not prepared to express an opinion yet.
1t Is safe to say that in every church in the city
are mind curers, and the pastors know it. and
usually are very discreet, in their utterances
regarding it, particularly if they disapprove of
the ism. They dismiss the subject by saying
that they do not understand it. Very few out
siders do. One of the mental heaters, who
gives her services because she has means and
really wishes to help her kind, was asked for
her formula and she gave it. She saws the
requisites for success are concentration of
mind. strong faith, and an intense desire to
cure patients. The argument made to each
pupil is as follows:
There Is no life, sensation, or intelligence
In matter. All is mind. There is no reality to
matter, hence you are not sick. You are spir-
itual, not material. Spirituality is of God.
therefore perfect. 1t cannot suffer- It is all
truth, life, love. perfection. Materially is but
mortal belief of error. Treat it as such and
you will govern all fear of pain and sickness
However real they may seem to you, they
are not real, for matter cannot suffer; it has
not the power to feel anymore than any other
shadow. Your mortal mind causes you to fear
sickness and impresses the fear upon the body.
The dread OF the disease is as great to YOU as
the reality would be, but being only dread. a
fear, belief, you can control it. Rise in the
perfection of your spirituality to conduer re-
sist and destroy all that there is unlike God
Reason with yourself that He made everything
good, real, true and eternal. Therefore He is
not the author Of disease, for that is an error.
As disease is not a creation it is n Ut reality,
but merely delusion of the mind the effect
OF fear. There is nothing real but God and
the idea OF Him. He is prlnciple-man, the
1dea the perfect image, likeness and reflection
hence, with no evil. Remember that you are
soul, not sense Assert the power of soul to
conquer the belief of sense.
"God gave you the entire control over your
own body, over the internal as we'll as the
external organs. You have the same power
over the innermost blood vessel, fiber, nerve
tissue, that you have over the motion of your
hand You can control them. You can govern
yourself. Matter has not the intelligence to
locate pain 1t has not the ability to change
the location OF disease 1t has not the sub
stance to feel disease. You are well. You are
not SICK. Deny the power of matter. 1t is
error. Deny the hallucination of suffering.
Destroy the belief that is in your mortal mind
that you can be troubled with asthma Asthma
Is but a belief. Treat it as SUCH and YOU will
destroy the semblance Of it. Say: L am WE'LL
and You Will be; for as man thinks SO is he
Your lungs, your bronchial tubes. all the blood
supply, the nerve force are your own. God
gave you the power to keep the good and
destroy the error Say: Asthma is lie' Treat
1t as one and you will find that you have the
same power over sickness that you have over
sin. Remember that mind has its own body
with it always, governing and controlling it in
all that it is as well as in all that it does.
'God Is the breath of life. The body does
not breathe. Let mind show its perfection by
bringing truth to destroy the error. You be-
lleve that you are suffering, that you must
cough. Destroy that belief and the apparent
cough will leave you. God is ALL There is no
room for evil. He is omnipresent. Hence,
anything other than good is belief, an unre-
allty that has no substance, for God is the only
substance. Realizing this you use the body as
machlnlst uses a machine. controlling it in
all its duties, sending the blood flowing to
All parts, governing the nerves. making it well.
made all things, and all that He has made is
good Let the truth of being destroy the error
OF seeming. Accept the harmony of health.
Deny the discord Of sickness, for all is good. all
is mind. Spirit is immortal truth. Matter is
mortal error. Spirit is the real, the eternal
You are spirit, hence true and perfect. Ad-
init for one moment that life and intelligence
are not in the body; realize for single instant
that they are one with God, and that moment
you will be well. You are we'll You have ac-
cepted the gift of health. The work is done.
Mind controls you, and from this time fear of
sickness is removed. You know that il is
nothing. You will never again make it a real
ity. Arise well! the disease is not there. You
are WELL"
Not all healers use the same formula. but
this is the substance of all. The idea common
to all these systems, called by whatever names
they may be, is that there is no other power in
the universe but good, and that GOD is the
good" or 'good itself" 1t is a complete ig-
noring OF the weak side of nature, and if the
patient cannot accept this he or she cannot
be cured Many deaths have occurred in
accused Of the responsibility. Usually ply
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