The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-04-08
SEES BASIS OF MIRACLES.
Dr. Hirseh Declares That Hypnotism
Wrought Strange Cures.

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was hypnotist This is the opinion
of Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, who lecturec
last ening in Temple Israel at Forty
fourt street and Lawrence avenue or
the .racies OF the bible.
Jul as hypnotism is the secret OF
all scientific cures today it was respon
sible in the time Of Christ for the mar
velous power the man Of Galilee had
over the people. so Dowie today is a
hypnotist and Moses in the earliest
times was really hypnotist in the
true sense of the word, declared the
speaker.
Dr. HirscA said he believed that
Dowie cures people of disease.
Just as men and women Of strong
er mind control people of weaker mind
today. SO did they in the time Of Christ.
People today hypnotic themselves in
to believing their own lies; they hyp-
notize themselves sick and often they
are hypnotized well again by Christian
IScientists or faith healers.
The lecturer said that Christian
Science heals the sick, he believed.
Just as the magic healers of the orient
heal with mystifying cures.
The only difference is that the
Christian Scientists understand the
healing power, while the people of the
far east do not
The miracles Of the bible, according
to DR.. Hirsch, are not facts, but forces,
and because they are not true they
more truly depict the nature of things
as they existed at that time. they
are poetry, @hieh II we try TO put
them into prose lose their erect.
The miracles are all matte. of
tradition" he said. Doubtless by the
time the stories were recorded as we
read them in the bible they were much
Exaggerated. Today you know how
story grows. 1t is told from lip to
lip until finally, by the time it gets
back to the original story teller, it is
unrecognizable.
Stories We're Handed Down.
The stories we read in the bible
were passed from father to son and
down and down for generations. we
know not how long, before they were
written and recorded in the bible.
Matthew Mark, Luke and John |
did not write the books Of the new
testament that bear their names.
Biblical research proves to us that the
new testament as we have it was writ
ten 100 years after Christ. 1t was
written and rewritten before it took
the form in which was have it, There |
fore wc can readily GEE how Sertun
stories may have been exaggerated"
DR.. Hirsch compared the parable |
and miracle form Of depicting char
acter and conditions in the bible to
the modern novel OF today. The novel
depicts in fiction the real conditions
more forcibly than facts can reveal
them.
Says Miracles Are Forces.
$50 the miracles are forces, not
facts, he said. "The men who wrote
them wrote with imagination, not to
hide the truth. but 70 heighten it,
Religion does not need miracles,
however It is Independent Of them.
God, If he is true. can be true without
them. AS poetry they have their val
ue alone When we read Of the empty
grave it is symbol Of a force. not a
fact"
AT the close Of his lecture DR.. Hirsch
announced that he had been called to
Johns Hopkins university to deliver a
series Of eight lectures next week and
the week following.
The honor is particularly great, be-
cause Dr. Hirsch is the first Jew ever
called TO the university. and the lee
lures he viii deliver have heretofore
been delivered by Europeans