Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-16
OLD AND NEW CURES.

II IN many countries, IN the rural pafts
people still believeiin charms and anu
let's and Witchery and such things,
which one would suppose belong only to
a past age of superstition. In one part
1 of England. 1t is alleged. q is still Gus
tomary to heal certain ailments by the
application Of d bandage and the repe-
1 titinn nine times Of the following
strange and weird formula:
'...As Jesus Christ was walking He saw
| the Virgin Mary sitting on a cold mar
BILE stone. HeRsaid unto her: If 1t Is
a white#ill thing or a red Ill thing or
black Ill thing. or a. sticking, cracking,
| pricking, stabbing, bone Ill thing. or q
sore i'll thing, or a swelling5 All thing, or
a rotten Ill thing, or a. cold creeping i'll
thing, or smarting Ill thing let It
fall from thee to the earth in NY
Name: and in the Name of the Father,
Son and Holy Gllost-Alneil.''' @
| That is an Inheritance from a past
age,but It is Impossible to suppose that 1t
would have been retained and continu-y
ally applied unless those using 1t had
ton as prescribed had some beneflcient
effect upon patients. People do not
continue to use what they find by ex-
perience to be absolutely useless.
And that raises the question whether
modern so-called new psychology is
SO very much ahead Of the age that
invented certain number of words
to be repeat ted as a cure for Diseases We
have before us "a little book treating
of the basic principles and practical
forrnl las'''' of the new psychology, by
Dr. "A. A. Lindsay, of Portland, Oregon.
{ The doctor tells of Remarkable cures.
n by what seems to be an application Of
words. In the case of a patient suffer
Ing Of Insomnia he placed him in a
Chair and said: @ NJ
Immediately upon retiring tonight
you will find drowsiness overcome
you quickly. followed by an unconsci-3
Gus sleep During the night, whenever
you shall awaken, 1t will be only for q
moment, and you will irnined lately fall
back into a refreshing sleep. In the
course Of the night you will get at
least six hours sleep, and in the morn
Ing you will be conscious Of having
had a most refreshing slunber. You
sleep without any drugs to compel IT.
you will not desire any medicine again
to produce sleep. You will not feel the
loss of 1t in giving It up entirely. -
It seems that this application Of
words was effective Other all
ments successfully treated in a SIM
liar manner, as reported, are indiges-
ton, bronchitis, rheumatism, ETC.
How far is this removed from the
treatment by the strange formula
quoted as an evidence OF medieval sup
erstition? 1t is really strange to-
notice the modern tendencies back to
alchemy. to the search for the fountain
of youth, and to psyche therapy.
We may say that the faith in heal
ing as held by the Latter-day Saints is.
different from these curest In this re-
spect that 1t Is founded exclusively
on the belief that God can and will,
by His divine power, heal and cure
body and soul OF sin and all the con-
sequences of sin, provided man is will
ing to render obedience to Els laws
and live in accordance with their de-
mands. The Latter-day Saints believe
lin God $ power-the power Of the Holy
Spirit, to permeate, renew and recon
5struct the human system and cleanse
1t and sanctify 1t. They believe in.
Gods promises to do this In response
to prayer and faith and the admins
tration of the sacred ordinances. This
is not superstition; nor is 1t psyche
therapy 1t is Gods power to save,
manifested in response to the prayer.
of faith.