The herald., 1896-02-24
v. Z. Lewis

glorlned the central anu most sacred rite
of the ancient mysteries.
v. c. Lewis
At the Friday Morning club rooms yes
terday V. c. Lewis spoke in part as fol-
lows on the Absent Healing and Raising
the Dead: The lesson this morning is
found in the seventh chapter of Luke. Sec
ond to sixteenth verses, inclusive. There
is similar account in the fourth chapter
of John, forty-sixth verse.
Heretofore people have wondered how
such work as healing patient absently
could have been done. The world is a
school, and thinkers are the pupils. Stu
dents are now dealing with established
facts as yet unexplained as well as those
understood, and by such study finding ex-
plantations for all known phenomena. The
principle involved in absent treatment is
explained by suggestion through the now
the mark where these things are to be
done and we are to believe them through
faith, into the borders of that realm where
we are to understand the principle IN
volved in the work. Webster's Interna-
tional Dictionary gives the definition of
this law of telepathy as "the sympathetic
affection of one mind by the thoughts,
feelings or emotions of another at dis
tance without communication through
the ordinary channels of sensa-
tion." We then have in our every
day authority on words, a definition of a
power which is law of which we know the
phenomena. but have not understood the
principle. 1t is explained upon the hypoth-
esis that the mind governs the body.
Hence jesus application of that law is this
healing by absent treatment. The next
point to be settled is the conditions under
which this healing took place. The first is
based upon the centurion's state OF mind,
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work; his faith furnished the mental atlin-
ity between the patient and Jesus. The
second necessary condition of mental ab-
sent healing is, that the one who is to sci
entihcaily perform the work must under
stand the law. That law is the universality
of mind. This is nothing new; it has
always been. Emerson, forty years ago,
makes the statement: "There is one mind
common to all individual men. He that is
once admitted to the right of reason is
made a freeman of the whole. estate"
Then, instead of onr working bfindly, we
are working according to fixed law, which
we understand, though indifferently. This
law was understood and exercised by the
man Jesus. To the degree that we under.
stand the law, we can demonstrate the
same principle. The second thought in this
lesson-the raising of the dead-is based
upon the same law, viz, the universally of
mind or life. That mind is law,.is God,
ana Is common to all men.
1t is the higher demonstration of this.
same law of telepathy or trausference of
thought, or spirit. or of life.
Jesus understood that they that ware
dead were asleep or stagnant to the con-
sciousness of life. We infer from that
knowledge that he might awaken them TO
consciousness of life. Not to give them
new life, nor new spirit, but to awaken
them TO the consciousness of life, OF spirit.
We can understand, and in a measure ex-
ercise, this law of healing. We cannot eX-
ercise, so far as we now understand, the
higher law, the law of raising the dead.
Positively no dead have ever been raised
but according to law, and Jesus stated
THAT the last enemy to be overcome is
DEATH" In the golden text Jesus says: :
"Go ye therefore and teach all nations !;
teach them to observe all things whatso-
ever have commanded you." God is
spirit. the divine mind, the infinite law
/ that is no respector of peraons. and is ever
applicable for those who can apply it..
Hence the command, go and teach all ma
tions. Sometimes in his teaching he says,
"Go only to the Jews" as though the Jew
was the only one who could accept his teach
ing. Later he says: "Go ye to all ma
lions" His own people would not receive
him. and that bias is peculiar to them. We
turn from almost anything sooner than
from our religious teaching. 1t thus be-
comes necessary that we study the teach
ing of this wonderful Master. He says:
"He that believeth shall be saved" Saved
meaps "made sound" So, then, il be-
hooves us to study and follow the teachings
of this man and to apply all the science OF
the age to his teachings. Professor Hux.
ley had given thought to this subject. He
says: "By the term science l understand
all that knowledge which reAts upon evi,
dence and reasoning of like character to
that Which claims our assent to ordinary
scientific propositions; and if any ons is
able to make good the assertion that his
theology rests upon valid evidence, and
sound reasoning, then it appears to me
that such theology must take its place as
par. of science.'
Rev. Clarence L. Wilson
The Rev. Clarence True Wilson preached
yesterday morning at Burbank on the
Atonement, his text being ii Corinthians
5, 10: God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto himself:
The fact of the atonement is no doubt
accepted by all who bear the Christian
name but the doctrine has caused much
controversy among scholars and is but
little understood by the masses. wish 70
inquire then, In what sense may the suffer-