The herald., 1896-03-02
Christ's sufrerings in his own life. The
sufferings of Christ abound in us" says st.
Paul,
v, c, Lewis

Paul.
v. c. Lewis
! Yesterday V. C. Lewis spoke at the Fri
day Morning club rooms, taking for his
subject, the Healing of the Sick by Jesus.
His address in part was as follows:
The subject of the lesson, Christ Jesus
| healing the sick and raising the dead. is
similar to last Sunday, but that was a case
of healing absently, and this present
healing.
The golden text, "Heal the sick, cleanse
| the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils;
freely ye h I'VE received freely give" That
ototation is in the 10Th chapter of
athew, and previous to the instruction,
''Heal the sick, raise the dead" Jesus told
the disciples to proclaim the gospel, and IN
this 10th chapter of Matthew, 9TH verse,
| he states what the gospel is: "And as ye
go preach, saying the kingdom of heaven is
| at hand.n The gospel is that statement.
| the kingdom of God. the kingdom of
| heaven is at hand. Science teaches us
! that intelligence is God. 1t would then
mean that the kingdom of intelligence or
spirit is at hand, and as kingdom means to
| rule, to reign, to govern, as well as the
place of OF locality of government, it
would literally mean that mind, rules,
governs and controls here and now.
The age of miracles or rather the belief
in miracles is passing away. In this age of
civilization intelligence is destroying be-
| liefs that are not true. Intelligence has
driven dragons from the skies by the study
of astronomy through means of the tele-
scope. The study of the earth's structure
| or geology has destroyed the belief of hell
under ground, and the light of science
being brought to bear upon the subject of
religion 10 destroying the belief in myst-
cism and teaching lis that spirit or mind
does govern and control. The healing of
| the sick then as it is taught here must be
| otndiod Qo a rp,traPla hnt tho Oifoef-
alton of law, of mind.
If Jesus did the works of healing which
it 10 claimed he did, he must have known
how. If he knew how, he must have un.
derstood a law or principle. If Jesus un-
derstood q law or principle. that law or
principle will apply to all others who I'm.
derstand. and to the degree that they un-
| derstand they can demonstrate the same
law or principle. If Jesus did healing in
the manner recorded, he must have done
the work by the power OF mind. for he
| used no ma erial means, no drugs. Jesus
| himself declares that he did the work by
| spirit, by mind.
Science tells us that mind governs the
body. The proposition that confronts us
is: What is minds law of operation, and
! its limits, if it has any? For a working
hypothesis we can lay it down as an axiom
that mind has absolute and unqualified
control of the body. If we learn this law
of government. our bodies can be as har-
monious as our acts. Farther than that,
we are learning that mind has the power to
! transmit thoughts that change and heal;
that healing is the manifestation of truth
supplanting error in the consciousness of
men.
In one of the definitions given last Sum
| day, the one read you from Webster,
! telepathy is defined as 'the sympathetic
affection of one mind by the thoughts,
| feelings or emotions of another az dis
tauce, without communication through the
| ordinary channels of sensation" The
same law applies while present by trans
ferring to another the feelings of health.
and let it supplant the feelings of sickness
or pain. 1t is nothing more nor less than
! a statement of what is known to be law.
! 1t has not so been studied until recent
years, but is now known as the law CT
| thought transferepce; putting out the
wrong thought, and the body being gov
erned by truth is governed by the right
thought.
In this case of healing two thoughts at
tract the attention; one. that Jesus knew
that some one had touched him for help;
| in other words, his mind was sensitive to
| the woman's thought. so that while others
| pressed upon him and crowded against
| him, her touch of the hem of his garment,
which could have made no bodily impress
| sion whatever, was the only touch of which
he spoke. This again discloses this law of
! telepathy. or the same manifestation of
mind of another.
The other thought, in connection with
this case, was his statement of what the
power was that had healed her. He did
not say it was "the power that went out
from him that had healed her, but he
said: "Thy faith hath made thee whole"
1t is the action of your own mind on your
body which has healed you.
If there be an infallble test of the phe-
nomenon called death, it is decomposition.
1t is also fact that many supposed to
to be dead have been buried alive. They
should have been resuscitated, "rased.from
the dead" The thought, and especially
the declaration. "they are dying. they are
dead,'' is terrifying, hence powerful sug-
gestlon both TO the conscious and the I'M
conscious mind. We each have our own
fear and battle to fight, and may also need
the help of our friends at such time.
Jesus never wasted words in idle talk.
! He was too great a teacher TO mislead his
pupils, and the instructions to raise the
dead was. in all reason, not to attem to
raise those where decomposition was far
advanced. but higher expression of the
healing art in resuscitating those who with
out such aid would never return to con-
! sciousness. Ii Is reported that Buddha
said to his followers. II forbid you to be-
lieve anything because | tell it to you''
Science will explain all phenomena.
Jesus own statement is that the Esprit of
truth shall lead into all truth"
Camille Flamnarlon, like the voice in
/ the wilderness, eXctalins, 1.-THE time is COM
ing when there will be no other creed. and
no other religion, than knowledge of the
universe and conviction of eternal life in
its boundless region, its eternal domain"
Professor Bowman
A the Church of the New Era Professor
Bowman's theme was The Work of Human
Life. In substance he spoke as follows:
According TO the legend in Genesis the
origin of work was the curse of God on the
first human pair for eating forbidden fruit.
This legend. childish as'it is, has been
taught for truth to millions of people and