The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-11-27

are concerned there is something in COM
mon between the patent nostrums. the
electropoise. faith cures. Christian
Science. h~oodooism. and all Other forms
of extraordinary h~ealines." ] ask. why
add to his list the term extraordinary
healingse" What would he name ordi-
nary healings? Docs not the patient who
has been healed b. the use OF a drug
have the same kind OF 4 well" look as
the one who has recovered in some other
way? May We net say with as clear
logic and with the same degree Of GER
tainty that when a patient Is cured by
medicine he is not cured by medicine.
but by the same cause 10 which Or. Mar
shall attributes his so-called "extraor-
binary dealings? What of the Egyptian
maSicians who produced the same phe-
nomena to material sense which Moses
affected by the use of the rod To all
physical appearances the effects were tn
same. Would DR.. Marshall say that the
causes were the same? The necronan-
GERS initiated Moses up 70 a certain
point. when they failed; then they ad-
mitted the superiority CT the power
which wrought wonders through Moses.
saying: This is the finger OF God
Evil has sought TO ape God from the be-
ginning of the world TO the present time.
and has claimed in all ages, Il can do
anything God can do. l can heal just
like God. indeed, God has nothing 10 do
with healing. l am doing j. through ami
NAL magnetism" Many counterfeits Of
any method does not prove there is no
genuine original. Jesus of Nazareth
healed in an "extraordinary" way. He
used no material remedies and restored
the absent to life with whom there was
no personal contact, thereby exhibiting
a purely mental or spiritual power OF
healing. Does Mr.. Marshall claim that
Jesus too, was d hypnotist, and that he
was reporting a falsehood when he said:
I speak not of myself, but the Father
that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
l Will grant that 50 far as concerns eX-
ternal appearances the results of vari-
Gus systems Of curing the sick may seem
similar, but | insist that Christian
Science heals purely through the innu-
ence of truth. and is the identical sys-
TEN which Jesus used nineteen hundred
years ago. Nor are the effects of truth
healing the same as the recuperatiOn
through other means-as any one in
spired with new life through Christian
Science can testify.
l will agree with the doctors state
ment: .'If it were not true that the nat
Ural tendency in all diseases is to recover
the world would have been depopulated
long ago." and would add, but the natural
tendency Of Gods creation is to express
Himself, and to be cO-exlstent and CO.
eternal with Himself: otherwise it would
have been annihilated long go. God is
the power behind the throne which makes
the natural tendency of man to health"
And through Christian Science the hin
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fears n dependencies upon powers less
than 4Cd, are put out of the way, and
the patient is brought directly under the
divine influences; so this natural tendency
gains supremacy, and health speedily fol-
lows.
1t is further stated: THE great ma
jority of sick people would entirely re-
cover if left ~clone." This would be well
said with the addition OF two words-with
God.
Some diseases may be imaginary, as
our friend declares. Some may be more
than imagination, as Christian Science
teaches; but the troubles which are
mountains to our material sense are ut
terly powerless in the sight of God; and
all diseases, imaginary or otherwise must
dissolve in His presence, even as the
frost before the mondays sun.
Our brother asks the question: "Have
we reason to believe from the teaching
of revelation that by any system of faith
that ignores the reality of sickness and
death; that denies the existence of mat
ter, and repudiates even the being of q
personal God, we may so far master our
selves that disease will become only q
dream and death a fiction? Or, to repeai
the question in another form; does the
Bible give us any reason to expect heal
ings and cures other than those that re-
suit from the recuperative energy of ma
ture, or grow out Of the use of a wise
system Of therapeutics, including the rem
edies of materia medical, and those poten-
tial but mysterious influences of our owl
minds
We will allow the Scriptures to answer
this question. Jesus was the creates
| physician the world has ever known. His
system OF healing must have been The
| best, for his success was perfect and h
was never known to lose a case. He alst
said: Il am the way He did not de
clare, 81 heal sin and sickness by evok.
ing the aid Of the Father, but you mus
depend upon material remedies" but h.
said: He that believeth on me, thu
works that l do shall he do also; AM
greater works than these shall he do
because l go unto the Father" An
these signs shall follow them that be
lieve,' etc. as much as to say, He VIII
understands what understand, and prac
tees as | practice will be followed by lik'
results" If he made any point in hi
teaching emphatic it was this, that "
should be able through his method I
overcome sin, and sickness, by %dependini
alone upon the power Of God. lie sal
of a sick woman, that satan had boun'
her. Elsewhere, on another occasion n
declared of satan: "When he speaketl
a lie he speaketh of his own, for he IS
liar, and the father of it, The vocation
of a liar is to give forth lies, and if he /
strictly a liar, he does nothing else. l
the text just quoted, the devils own, hi
offspring, that which is of or belOngln
to him is a lie. Will our friend pleas
tell me how much substance, how niue
reality there is in a lie? A lie is untrue
hence unreal; it has no existence in rae
and dies the moment its opposing trut
is revealed. According to Jesus word
we have now proved that the woman
who probably would have been called
rheumatic in medical p~arlance, was houn
by a lie. and was healed by the truth
We have proved by Jesus own wore
that rheumatism. or the like, is a III
- ,~ar Jnh &C r W.