Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-22

hunllth OF no uOuDl, thar mhDy persona
condemned by competent physician
TO a lie OF incurablo snffering, hav
been cured by means OF prayer. lel
Charcot to ioves.igate the subject,
with the Wow OF determining ifp1s,l-
bic the extent and limitations OF tn,
therapeutic miracle; that he does moi
pretend that science is yet in position
to explain all the puzzllng facts EN-
braced under tho general term mlracu
lous, but he holda that the frontiers
OF the supernatural In the therapeutic
miracle are steadily receding, and he
doubts not that eventually the complete
solution OF what but few years ago
was one u nfathomable mystery Will be
resched.
The Record then cites some remarka.
able cases where PHI physicians have failed
to give relief or stsy the progress Of
virulent diseases, some OF them OF
many years. standing, but where the
exercise OF faith In the patient and by
others has accomplished the cure
which medical skill could not reach.
1t 10 admitted that "the more we in
vestigate the facts OF faith healing, the
more evident 1t is that this mode OF
cure obeys natural laws;"als, that, "in
suitable subjects the influence o. the
mind on the body is 0, I'll ,lenIly
powerful to bring about recovery from
maladies which, but a short time
ago, owing to our Ignorance OF their
nature, were regarded as incursble.
But even though we are unable TO ac-
copt supernatural explanation OF
such curee, we must acknowledge
their existence, and ought, a. con-
scientious physicians, to avail our.
selves OF them when the other re-
sources OF our art fail u.s."
Notwithstanding the assertion OF In.
ability to accept supernatural expla.
nation u such cures, the writer 10
question does accept 1t, according 10
bis own expression that the iptluence
OF the mind on tho body lie sufficiently
powerful to bring about curative re.
suits In suitable subjects; for what Is a
supernatural accom- plishmeDt but that
which lie attained by the communion
and IL fiuencs OF the mind with the
higher or spiritual laws OF nature?
The supernatural is not unnatural; 1t
is the application OF spiritual forces 10
the control OF the natural or to mporal
elements. and both spiritual aud tenn
pornl obey natural laws in the broader
sense OF that term. The mind or intelli-
gence OF man dominates and controls
his body. commonly termed his mk-
terial tabernacle, and the forces con-
nected therewitb; also, in suitable
sublects--those who conform to the
laws that operate therein-the MIND
controls the psychical forces in their
Influence upon the material elements.
In the order of existence the superna.
tural 10 superior in power to and
YIELDS controlling influence over that
commonly called natural. 1t IL the
Iue OF mind over matter.
30 far as the science OF therapeutics
10 concerned, there is no good
reason why conscientious physl-
clans should not avail themselves,
40 the Record suggeste, OF
"the faith which heals" when the
other resources of their art fail them,
or indeed at all times. But their
efforts In that line should not be In a
haphazsrd, uncertain way; they should
be directed. ms the conscientious physi.
clan directs them in the practice oil
his art, in keenly intelligent,
methodical, reverential way which in
sures accuracy 10 the full limit OF his
powers. For what capable physician
is not reverential to his art, or does not
comprehend the aptness OF a higher
reverence for the still higher powers Of
the spiritual world that control
the faith that heals, in the broader
development Of the same healing art?
The exercise OF such faith is in thu
commanding power OF the mind
which brings into play those spiritun
forces that combine the necessary ele-
ments for the healing powers. 1t II
the ultimate use OF means as tangible
as drugs or bandages, but by a more
refined and delicate process called, by
some, supernatural. In its perfection, Il
Ia accomplished by communion with
and use OF tho mind OF God, (which
mind is the Holy Splrit"-one OF the
three personages which constitute
"the great, matchless, governing and
tupreme power over all things.'!
Christ, the Great Physician, taught
the plan for making available this
higher curative agency, OF which
conscientious physlcisns and all others
may, and ought to, avail themselves
In its time and place, according to the
rules by which it operates. A physi'
clan may have faith which heals
as well as the art which he obtaini
knowledge of In colleges and raedics
practice.
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PLACE FOX IMMIGRANTS,