The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25

dent himself, VIII, - certain Ideas
to affect curing II ~ requires a
| great deal of egotis4 - . a Chris
tian Scientist, "You do Nv divine
power as you claim, but rs hypnotic
| suggestion"
! DR.. Marshall states: "The results so
| similar must proceed from a common
cause; and the sequence between cause
| and effect is so unalterably fixed by ma
| ture that when we see a series of effects
| agreeing in essential particulars we
know that they must proceed from a
common cause. Interested parties may
deny it, if they WILL and diselaim any
| connection with other cures, but the
logic of truth and common sense compels
one to believe that in so far as healings
are concerned there is something in COM
mon between the patent nostrums. the
electropoise, faith cures, Christian
Science, hoodoosm, and all other forms
Of extraordinary healings." l ask, why
add to his list the term extraordinary
| healings?" What would he name Ordi-
nary healings? Does not the patient who
| has been healed by the use of a drug
| have the same kind of well look as
the one who has recovered in some other
way? May we not 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 to which DR.. Mar
| shall attributes his so-called "extraor-
dnary healngs? What of the Egyptian
magicians 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 TIL
same. Would DR.. Marshall say that the
causes were the same? The necroman-
GERS initiated Moses up to a certain
| point, when they failed; then they ad-
mitted the superiority of 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, 81 can do
| anything God can do. | can heal Just
| like God, indeed, God has nothing to do
with healing l am doing it 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 a hypnotist and that he
was reporting a falsehood when he said:
81 speak not of myself, but the Father
that dwelleth in me- he doeth the works %
| l will grant that so far as concerns ex-
ternal appearances the results of vari-
ous systems of curing the sick may seem
similar, but l insist that Christian
Science heals purely through the innu-
ence of truth and is the identical sys-
tenn 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-eXistent and CO.
eternal with Himself; otherwise it would
have been annihilated long ago. God is
the power behind the throne which makes
1.-The natural tendency of man to health"
And through Christian Science the him
drances and Instructions, the doubts,
fears and dependencies upon powers less
than God, are put out of the way, and
divine influence; so this natural tendency
gains supremacy, and health speedily fol-
lows.
1t is further stated: "The great ma
tority of sick people would entirely re-
cover if left alone." 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 repudates even the being of
personal God, we may so far master our
selves that disease will become only a
dream and death fiction? Or to repeat
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 or wise
system of therapeutics, including the rem
edes of materia medica, and those poten-
tial but mysterious influences of our own
minds ?"
{ We will allow the Scriptures to answer
, this question. Jesus was the greatest
physician the world has ever known. His
; system of healing must have been the
best. for his success was perfect and he
, was never known to lose case He also
said: 81 am the way" He did not de-
clare, Il heal sin and sickness by evok
, ing the aid of the Father, but you must
depend upon material remedies" but he
; said: "He that believeth on me, the
works that / do shall he do also; and
greater works than these shall he do
? because l go unto the Father" And
t these signs shall follow them that be-
lieve," etc, as much as to say, "He who
understands what / understand, and prac-
tices as practice will be followed by like
, results" If he made any point in his
teaching emphatic it was this, that we
should be able through his method 10
overcome sin, and sickness, by depending