The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-18


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s. disease. One speaker advanced = prOpo-
s-rIoa that struck ne IS p1sssss N many
& grains q common sense Il Vas 20 TIE
T eject tnat society. by is present Treatment
[ Il the very psoor and perhaps vicsOus classes,
/ -eachss t1sLn 20 regard tLemsslT ss q soclz!
O1tcssts, beng b0Ta % SIN AM shame, apart
I from the rest u humanity. and foreordsIne1
I 20 wage var upJ1 their more fortunate tel-
{ low creatures
! 'YO1 expect these people 70 rob you If
they get cna1cs; YOU regard i e. per
fsctly natural for their dzug1-srs 20 lead
liTes Of shame from their yo1th up: y91
/ l1Ok upon their sons as future candidates
for the gall0Hs, O. a. best the convict's
cell. Tbsy know this feeling On your par.
I AMI the kno1lelze dalLs AMI destroys their
| better traits, 50 thar t1sy become what you
virtually tel them II Is natural for them %
Oecoms. But If you were 20 take these IN
happy results Of ancestral crime and vice b.
the hand AMI tell them, with al the power
that Christian science gives you, that they are
not O1tcasus: thai they are born 70 Be
human f9ae-s Of purity and human gems
Of gold; If you inssill into t3em ambition
and Certainty Of becoming decent members
4 society. and remove the false idea that
they must D. es their fathers were, then
you o lsf. cbs word a. large, Just as y11
Do when you convince the bsdridden invalid
that il is not natural for MIN % be SICK In
fact, show these people that they are not
crimi9s ais, jus; as you show the sick that
there Is no sickness but in their own mis-
taken mortal minds
Such we're the arguments employed by
the speake / remember that they called
forth many piaudib, and that several
scientists present announced their intention
Of experimenting On the Lines laid down.
HUNBUG HELPED BY FACTS.
It has been said that the mot of a famous
Snowman is applicable to christian science
that iis succ- So Is due 10 the partiality Of
the pu 5lic for being humbugged. But while
the doctrine Of '-iEfinite mindn may seem
70 the skeptic 10 SAVIOR Of humbug, science
will, IN measure, admit the claims Of the
thou snt-c Jncentratlon and wiIl-power
theory. We all know that skillful phy-
sicians have tor years observed and utilized
the influence Of the mind upon disease It
would be superhuous to dwell
upon the fact that a hopeful, CHEEKY patient
has far better chance Of overcoming i'll
| ness than one who is moody, pessimistic,
| and respondent. Stories going 70 prove the
power Of mind over matter are familiar
% every educated person. Who has not
heard Of the French convict who, blind.
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| felt the touch Of cold steel, heard the drip
| plng Of water in basin by his side, and
| imagined that the operation had COM
| mencedi The physicians conducting the
| experiment had simply barred his arm and
| quickly touched it, without pancturing the
skin in the least; but yet their wretcned
subject grew paler and weaker, until 1t was
at last impossible TO revive him, and he died
as from bleeding, although he had not lost
drop Of blood.
An equally convincing and far more cheer
full proof Of the influence Of the mental
over the phyical powers is the historic
| expose OF new" method Of treating dis
ease Invented" some years ago by an
| Englishman name Perkins. II was called
| 'tractoration," and consisted Of drawing
| two small rods, made of different metals
and known as TRACTORS" over the diseased
| portions Of a patients body Prominent
| physicians ridiculed tractoration as they
| have ridiculed every new "treatme 1t, -
| from the abolition of blood letting as a cure
all TO the inoeulation experiments of Pasteur.
| In order to prove "trac5orationn a delusion
and snare. four patients in an English
| hospital who had long suffered from chronic
/ rheumatism were treated with false
| TRACTORS" made of wood and used by a
| couple Of skeptical doctors, VIII ,, in order to
make the cures more effective, resorted to
all the tricks and devices of the invention
tx.e L.
| wonderful; but the physicians having tri-
umphanty demonstrated that the cures eff
| fecued by tractoration were simply the re-
suit of the patients imagination, and that
| the TRACTORS had no value in themselves
returned to their prescriptions Of drugs by
| which it took them ten times longer 70 cure
rheumatism than by the wonderful wooden
pegs.
The foregoing and hundred other exam
Piles Of the physical pheno .nena produced
by dominant thought or IDEA afford almost
conclusive pro 4 that there is reasonable
ground for more or less confidence in the
practice of mind cure, but the practical
recognition by the disciples of the cure that
thought, or will transference, is a powerful
factor in it, goes somewhat further than
the simple assertion OF the influence
of mind over matter. 1t assumes
that, as a writer on the subject says:
THE cure of disease is effected by the idea
of health becoming, unconscously to the
sick person and by transmitted thought,
the dominant idea in the sick perso IS mind
Thus the mental healer's mind is concen-
trated upon the idea that the sick person
has no disease; and this idea being trans
ferred from the active brain of the mind
curer to the passive brain Of the sick person.
it becomes there the dominant idea, and
the sick person becomes WELL"
THOUGHT READING THE CURE OF DISEASE.
A phase of thought transference-and
the one, perhaps, most familiar to the gen.
eral public-is the so-called Thought read
ilg," or telepathy. This phenomenon, as
illustrated by professional mind-readers,
such as the late Irving Bishop, Stuart
Cumberland and others certainly as far
advanced in the science, although perhaps
rather as students than shownien, is no
longer a subject of doubt and incredulity.
The ability of passive m nd
to receive very definite impressions
by silent personal contact, or
even, under favorable conditions, without
contact is widely known; aud this fact
goes far toward the support of the merely
materialistic theory of mind cure. The
mental faculties of a sick person are likely
to be more passive and receptive than those
Of one in the enjoyment of good health,
and there is no reason why. if the patients
spirit is willing his fiesl should not be at
least assisted to recover from its weak ness
| nv the vigorous i'm nraSSiOns cOn vavad nv "a N