The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1901-01-01


logic OF truth and common sense compeis
one TO believe that N so far as healings
are concerned there is something in COM
mon between the patent nostrums. the
electropoise, faith cures, Christian
Science, hoodooism and all other forms
OF extraordinary healings." / ask. why
add 10 his list the term extraordinary
headings? ," What would be name ordi-
nary healings? Does not the patient who
has been healed by the use OF 4 drug
have the same kind OF a well look as
the one who has recovered in some other
way? May We not saT with as clear
logic and with the same degree of GER
tainty that when patient is cured by
medicine he IS not cured by medicine,
out by the same cause 20 which Dr.. Mar
shall attributes his So-called ''eXtraor-
binary healing? What OF the Egyptian
magicians who produced the same phe
nomena 70 material sense which Moses
affected By the use OF the rod? To ali
physical appearances the effects were the
same. Would Dr. Marshall say that the
causes were the same? The necrOman-
GERS initiated Moses W TO certain
point, when they failed: then they adj
mitted the superiority OF the power
which wrought wonders through Moses.
saying ms IS the niger Oi HOu
Evil has sought 10 ape God from the be-
ginning of tho world the present time
and has claimed in all ages. 4 do
anything Cod can do. l 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 70 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,
Il speak not of myself, but the Father
that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
| will grant that so far as concerns ex-
ternal appearances the results of vari-
Gus systems Of curing the sick may seem
similar, but l insist that Christian
Science heals purely through the nfu
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 recuperat ton
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 t were not true that the nat
ural tendency in all diseases is to recover
the world would have been deDopulat ted
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 Ions ago God is
the power behind the throne which makes
the natural tendency Of man to health >
And through Christian Science the him
ORANGES and distractions. the doubts
fears and dependencies upon powers less
than God. are put out of the way and
the patient is brought directly under the
divine influence; SO this natural tendency
gains supremacy, and health speedily fol-
lows.
l.: 1t is further stated: The great ma
jority CT sick people would entirely re-
cover il left alone This would be we'll
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
dissolve in His presence. even as the
frost before the noon days 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 reDudiates even the being of a
personal Cod may so far master our
selves that disease will become only q
| 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 of a wise
| system of therapeutics, including the rem
| edies of materia medlca, and those poten-
| tial but mysterious influences OF our own
| minds?"
| We VIII 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: 4 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 thet I do shall he do also: and
! greater works than these shall he do:
| because | go unto the Father" And
| these SIGNS shall follow them that be-
| heve,' etc. as much as to say, He who
| understands what l understand, and prac-
| tees 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 to
| overcome sin, and sickness, by depending
| alone upon the power Of God. He said
| OF a sick woman. that satan had bound
| her. Elsewhere, on another occasion he
! declared Of satan: When he Speaketh
! lie he speaketh of his own for he is a
liar, and the father of it." The vocation
| of liar is to give forth lies and if he is
| strictly a liar. he does nothing else. In
the text just quoted. the DEVILS own his
offspring, that which is of or belonging
| to him is a lie. VIII our friend please
tell me how much substance. how much
| reality there IS in lie? A lie is untrue
! hence unreal; it has no existence in fact