Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-05-14
THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. LEWIS r. REED.
Theme: Suggestive Therapeutics.

Theme: Suggestive Therapeutics.
Brooklyn, N. Yin the Flatbus.
Congregational Church the pastor
the Rev. Lewis T. Reed, preached
Of Suggestive Therapeutics Tht |
text was from Matthew. 8:13: "Ant |
Jesus said to the centurion, Go thy |
| way; and as thou hast believed, SO be
| it done unto thee. And his servant
was healed in the selfsame hour"
Mr.. Reed said:
| In this theme of "The Theory and
Practice of Suggestive Therapeutics,
| it is not my purpose to expound nov
elites or to satisfy curiosity, but to
assist all of you who worship here to
lay hold Of some of the great princi-
pies within this movement by which
it will be possible for you to live con-
fidently and joyfully. I should be
glad to make all of you practitioners
of the art of suggestive therapeutics.
which it is essential you should honor
and obey. First-the power Of sug-
gestion. We have been wont to be
optimistic about everything that takes
place in our lives, provided nothing
evil appears at once on the surface
1--WE have proceeded on the faith that
the psychical system could take up
and dispose successfully of every sug-
gestion made to it. Evil thoughts,
envy, anger, greed, concupiscence,
gluttony-all the vices abhorred by
!. St. Paul might present their vile pic
lures to the mind, and as long as we
, did not act on their suggestion, we
still preserved our character. We de-
luded ourselves with hope tnat we
were what we appeared to be. And
now we have had to learn afresh the
truth of that Scriptures: las man
!. lthinketh in his heart, so is he"
. know of no process in mans life more
lcalculated to give him serious
L thought than this function of the
suDconsciousness of storing up the
suggestions that the outer life brings.
h Day by day as we touch the world,
f and get our own reactions OF courage
S Or cowardice, of self-control or self
4 defeat, of purity or self1shness, OF
= love or hate, we are continually drop
ping, dropping these suggestions INTO
The reservoir of this subconscious SELF
: to come forth some day to bless OF
IS curse. Abraham Lincoln lives day BY
J. day the sacrificial life Of the burden
II bearer of this people. Day by day
d hour by hour, he gives himself the
suggestion of devotion, sacrifice anc
faith: and then, when the hour FOL
ntterance has come, takes up his pei
c and writes on a few scattered sheets
Is the supreme English masterpiece o
t, half a century. Benedict Arnold wa
ct always passionate and revengeful
" Day after day, year after year, the re
N action of life on him resulted In sug
~ gesting to his deeper self hate, envy
=. pride, and self-will. When his hou
IL for expression came, he took up nj
Oh pen to sign his name to the betraya
tz Of his trust. There is nothing In tn
ch process of the soul that needs I
a. cause us more of JOY and more Q
fear than this amenability of the sou
~. to suggestion.
ca Secondly, you must come to me-
= realization of the supreme place c
The will. Heredity must have som
u place in the formation Of characte
gn although that place is not yet ver
ed clearly determined-but the mo:
weighty discovery of the present da
seems to me this rediscovery OF tn
regal power of the will to do righ1
he These psychologists, and hypnot1st
~ In their investigations into the une.
~, plored tracts Of personality nave con
w across not only God-like asp1ratio
Is after virtue in every soul, but ais
Is an unlimited power for the attal1
'ur ment of that aspiration. Just as u
Ter Master of Life stopped over the cri
lDle. saying, Arise and Walk; 81
,ba knew that within that stricken Tor
NJ there was the ability to rise al
oo walk: so modern psychology stoo
,ad nvar ovorv sinful soul and repeats Il
me Scrinture command, "Be ye ther
ray fore perfect," for ye are in the ina
ZEN Df your Father in Heaven, VINO
nerfect. This is a tremendous &c
1fr;ne Of individual responsibility.
., lis an old Scriptural doctrine, but
III. gains a new force when, by the mo
ern hypnotists' appeal to the soul
me goodness in a man, you see the drum
has ard go forth a new man, the Spen
t." thrift reformed and the invalid ma
his well. If there are in Us those p
; Of sibilities of virtue, there IS no esca
49, for us from the responsibility OF
- tanning that for which we were
ated. There has come to us the y
ne, yiction that inspired Jeremiah:
Dy those days they shall say no Ho
Is The fathers have eaten sour crap
is and the children's teeth are sel
hat , edge. But every one shall dle Ior
= own iniquity; every man tnan ia. Ea
nm edge" There is no more pro
inrentiye to earnest living THAN
yet realization Of the fact that COO
lber Iin+rnded life to be perfect Tor ev
was creature: and that II it Is otnerW
1.-The fault is in ourselves. -.
ozark is the world to tnee: tny