The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-01-03

unpopular and unpleasant that the
habit would stop.
Why wouldn't this be one good re-
solution to take up for the coming
year?
If for Merriam, Kan, why not for
any other community? Why not?
And it's up to the individuals of the
community to say.
CHURCH AND MENTAL SUGGEST
The announcement of Bishop Fal-
lows of the Reformed Episcopal church
of Chicago that he will at once inaugu-
rate the curing of mental diseases by
suggestion and auto suggestion, assist.
ed by some of the best known neurolo-
gists and psychologists of Chicago is
important and significant as indicative
that the movement started In Boston
more than year ago Is commanding
recognition and is going to grow.
Bishop Fallows declares that the
church, to save ITSELF must minister
to the bodies as well as to the souls
of the American people. The ministry,
he thinks, must join the medical pro-
fession in giving relief to sufferers
from mental and nerve disorders.
In connection with this Chicago an.
nouncement, an article which appeared
in the Christmas number of the
Worlds Work becomes doubly inter
esting. christian Science without
Mystery" the article is called, written
by Rollin Lynde Hart. In this article
he explains the mental healing move
ment as practised by the Emanuel
Episcopal church of Boston.
at is not christian science" says
the writer. at is the foe to christian
science. 1t heals without pay and it
heals by methods endorsed by leading
neurologists and psychologists Of the
day" No one is given treatment until
after first having been diagnosed and
advised by a competent physician"
The new movement is endorsed by
leading psychologists, such as DR.. Put
nam of Harvard. 1t is argued that all
physicians use suggestion as means
of curing and it is said that physicians
are coming to regard with less skep-
ticism reports of people becoming sea-
sick before the boat leaves the wharf,
of college boys who make a classmate
sick by merely telling him he looks
so and sticking to it. Arguing thus
that the mind exercises great power
over the body, it is claimed that sug-
gestion will materially affect the mind
One of the remarkable statements
in this article, tending to show how
even the liquor habit is cured by sug-
gestion, is the declaration that the
famous gold cure" for drinkers is
nothing more than a deception; that
there is no such thing as "bichloride
of gold" and that this noted method
of curing drinkers is merely an elab-
crate and highly beneficial system of
deception by which a dipsomaniac is
convinced that the chains of habit are
broken.
1t is argued from this influence Of
mind over the body that the mind may
be utilized in the cure of diseases of
a nervous character. "By detaching
your attention from pain" the author
writes, you reduce or dismiss it. A
concert or play will often cure a
headache; football players rarely feel
bruises during game; atooth will
stop aching as you are on your way,
attention diverted, to the dentist"
An address in the Boston church is
quoted: Much of the prevailing ner-
vous ailment is due to worry, superin-
duced by guilty conscience and dis
trust of self, started in the child by
the ineXcusable nagging and faultfind-
ing of parents. The sense Of humor
should be cultivated in every child and
1t will prove panacea for many ills
Everyone should try to tell at least
one funny story at the breakfast table
every day, and thus the day will be
started right Worry retards diges-
ton and banishes sleep, and thus caus-
es nervous ailments. The same is true
of unnecessary sorrow, anger and the
blues There are bad habits that can
be conquered. Indulge in neither ret
rospection nor introspection. Guilt
vate only thoughts of happy expert
ences, search out the companionship
of happy friends, read books Of the
right sort-avoid disagreeable books"
Long before this church took up its
work, the article says, nerve special
lists were using suggestion with ad-
mirable results. The case is told of