The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-01

faith enunciated the principle: "All
/ things are possible to them that be-
! lieve"
! When facts are subStantiated by un-
impeachable testimony of many per-
sons, who see and hear and experience
that which they speak of, reasonable
people will or ought to give due weight
to such evidence. Because certain
phenomena cannot be explained is no
reason why they do not exist or have
not occurred. Let the facts be known
and admitted first, and let the WHY'S
and wherefores follow.
The proofs that the sick are and
have been healed without the aiG of
drugs and medicines, either apparently
! by the touch of some person, or the
prayers of the patient, or some occult
influence not fully comprehended, are
| overwhelming in their number and
agreement. They come down to us
from past ages and are numerous in
these later times. And they are not
merely fahcied ailments which are ban
ished as they are produced, by imagi-
nation, but actual diseases, injuries
and deformities. 1t is of no use to
say "impossiblel" i'll these days of Won
derful development and discovery; the
facts are too well attested to be sat
down upon by any mere theory.
| a great deal of time is wasted on the
argument that the cure comes from the
patient and not from the alleged heal
er. What matters about that? If the
lame are made to walk, the deaf to
hear, the blind TO see and the chronic
invalid to wear the bloom of health,
is the cure any the less real whether
| it comes from the healer or the healed?
1t is not "humbug' if the effects are
actually experienced.
Nor does it follow that if the sick
are healed by the laying on of hands,
or the touch of a handkerchief "bleS-
sed" for the purpose or any other mys-
ferrous means, that the cause is SUI
pernatural, using that term in the
sense of a miracle" Nature is yet
largely a mystery to the wisest, best
informed and most scientific. The
power of mind over matter is but lit
tie comprehended. What is called hyp-
notism. mesmerism, odic force or by
any other name is a subtle something
! that no one fully understands There
are forces thought to be supernatural
which are as strictly natural as CRAWL
tation, but being beyond our present
knowledge are classed as miraculous.
Intuition, sympathy, mental tel
egraphy, spiritual attraction and repul-
sion are regulated by natural laws and
are realities as much as anything ply
steal, of which we are cognizant
through the senses.
If an individual if gifted with the
power to arouse into activity something
within an afflicted person which en-
ables him to rise above his affliction,
and the sick becomes well, why call
that humbug and reject it as unscien-
tjf1c? Faith will yet be understood as
a spiritual force as actually potent as
any force with which we are now IA
miliar. The Great Healer, so regarded
by all Christendom, usually claimed no
supernatural or personal power to cure
but said Thy faith hath made thee
whole"
Such cures as are truly effected.
whether by church ordinances, SOCIAL
led Christian science" the touching
of relics, private or public pray
ers; or other visible means, are
doubtless the result of faith. Some
times that is in the healer, sometimes
in the healed, occasionally in both.
When infants, or unconscious adIlts !
are the subjects the faith is in the
in it all, if by that term is meant a
violation of natural law.
When a boy hurls a ball into the air
the law of gravitation is not violated
but one force is temporarily overcome
by another. The water taken up into
the atmosphere in the form of vapor,
arises on natural laws as much as it
descends by natural laws in the form
of rain or snow. The power of smile
and the force of a. tear are as real as
the impact of a blow and as natural
in their operation. Mental and spirit
ual forces are little comprehended and
their effects on physical objects and
forces are counted among the mys-
teries, but they are not supernatural
nor are they "humbug."
Let it be remembered that with all
the progress of the nineteenth century,
science is yet in its swaddling clothes
and philosophy has scarcely cut it's
eye teeth. Skepticism unfolds moth
ing. Soothing is a mark of ignorance.
Faith, founded on fair evidence or
awakened by intuition or the voice of
inspiration is, has been and will be,
not only the means to reach the I'M
seen. but a force that moves on ma
terial as we'll as spiritual things, and
that dwells, even if latent, in the ma
ture of every human being. 1t will be
found wiser to cultivate than to decry
it, for it is power both in man and in
Deity.
WHY TALK OF GREE TRADER"