The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-30
MRS. PALMER's LECTURE.
She Expounds Her Views of Spiritua1ism-
Paups Power to Heal the Sick Simply an
Inspiration for Us To Do the sa me.

AT Red Mems hall, yesterday, after
noon and evening, Mrs. Palmer, widow
of the late Hon. j. S. Palmer, lectured
upon the subject of Spiritualism. She
took for her text the passage of scrip
ture, "And God wrought many miracles
by the hands of Paul"
She spoke at first of miracles and OF
the impression that they belong to the
past, but the fact is that they are just
as possible today as ever they were. Mir
acles simply imply facts that we cannot
comprehend. More and more within the
last fifty years man has begun to under
stand that divine law is the same now
as it ever was. 1t is needless to assert
that mind does not operate upon mind
and body today as forcibly as centuries
ago. Miracles are now being performed
everywhere. Especially are nervous dis
eases susceptible, to the curative infiu-
ence of the mind.
There.sis no reason why the same di-
vine laws that existed with the Jews
and Paul should not be in force today.
The same God is above. All the world
is permeated by the same divine love.
But the moment you apply psychological
truths to the preservation of life, men
demur. But it is the power that gov
ems men more than any other. 1t should
become study in every pubic school.
Everyone should strive to understand
It's influences Paul's psychological
power, by which he removed disease,
belongs in some degree to everyone of
you. 1t is manifest in what we call
magnetism. The successful preacher,
doctor or lawyer, has psychological pow
er.
Hence the Importance of pure, high,
noble life. 1t is the highest inspiration
to others. Your thinking, whether ut
tered or not, is potent in everyday life.
Come into the presence of sensitive
spirit and the naturesof your thought is
felt and known. The psychological life
is felt in every phase of human life. No
class can become exempt from 1t. All
are subject to its sway.
Psychology should be taught in the
primary schools. 1t is not necessary to
simply heal the ills of the body. They
are secondary always. You must become
power to the mind as well as to the
body.
This power implies the relation be-
tween man and God. 1t is impossible
to escape the responsibility of this rela-
tion.
Every man is his brothers. keeper. You
cannot avoid injuring him if you do not
help him. Has God ever done anything
for mans salvation that has not sifted
down through human agency? Has God
ever accomplished anything in nature
that does not come within the field of
human wants? If that be true, are we
not bound together by the strongest OF
laws, the divine spirit.
The Spiritualisr believes more fully
than any other in God, and that all
are in one family Ga divine fatherhood,
a divine brotherhood), and that he is in
harmony when there is a ely in his soul
for more truth. There is in. the fact OF
Paul,s healing the sick only the inspira-
ton that you should do the same.
Religion means today more than it ever
did before. Why? Because human necessi-
ties are multiplied. This is the lesson
of Paul's miraculous saving of life.
They were miracles no more than the
work of mental healers today.
Mr.. John Todd, who introduced Mrs.
Palmer, said that at the present time
there was more need than ever before in
Portland of having the gospel preached
as Mrs. Palmer had preached it.