The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-05
MIND AND BODY
The Close Relation Between Bodily and
Mental Health

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/ He brought the water up, complained
of headache and drowsiness, and agail
Ihypnotized him, and told him that
these symptoms would pass off, and
that he would feel Jolly. Again he
was awakened and his whole manner
changed. He was lively and walked
about the room with ease He slept
five hours that night, and in two
weeks resumed his business, and has
been perfectly well ever since" Another
English physician, DR.. Woods, states that
"he has treated over one thousand case:
by suggestion, and finds it a most
potent remedy, not only in functional
disorders, but in organic as we'll" Not
only have diseases which we class as
nervous been cured; but under such
been healed more quickly, and minor
Operations have sometimes been rem.
dered painless My impression is that
i'm recent clinics hypnotism is not used
to any great extent, suggestions being
Imade without it, the patient being
lsimply put i'm a receptive state.
Stop moment and think of what
this means, this law of Gods world. the
|contrOl of mind over body. 1t means
that if you keep your mind normal,
Wholesome, free from morbidness and
Suggestions of disease, it will do a
great deal to keep your body well, or
to make your body well if it is sick.
Think health. Talk health. Don't ask
tpeople: How do you do? which at
,once suggests their ailments. Wish
them good day. I have not empha-
sized any too strongly these last Sun
day evenings the folly of worry, of
selfishness, of. mammOn, of evil sug-
,gestiOn. In many cases you will do
VERY much better to spend your money
on holiday, or wholesome CHEEKY
book to read, or beautiful picture To
look at, or doing good to somebody,
than to spend it for doctor and
doctors would all say amen to that.
Prayer, especially prayer before we go
to bed at night, when the mind is
peculiarly open to suggestion and COM
munon, is better than all the tones
in the world. It's more effective, it's
cheaper, and it leaves no bad effects
whatever. Get some faith in things,
lin people, in yourself, in God. Get
over your unbelief, your pessimism; it's
fatal to health. If you want to cure
your Indigestion, cure your fretting,
your blueness, your temper, your jeal-
ousy. To be sure, Indigestion will
make you blue, will affect your tenn
per. But quite often blueness brings
,on Indigestion. Most of us could be
perfectly well all the time, if we only
had enough sense and self-contrOl.
Third. Again, let us not forget the
close connection there is between sin
and suffering. In many eases, like
the one in our text, Jesus cured a
mans soul in order to cure his body.
This man was paralyzed, and we gath.
er from the way Christ treated the
case, that paralysis had been brought
on, as it often is, by life of dis
lsipation. son." Jesus said to him,
BE of good cheer. Thy sins are for
given And when the bystander ac-
cused him OF blasphemy, he said:
j"Which is easier, to say to the sick
OF the palsy: Thy sins are forgiven,
or to say: Arise, take up thy bed and
lwalk?"
1T is a great deal easier TO cure a
mans body than it is to cure mis- soul
1T is a great deal easier to take some
medicine to cure our headache, than
to learn temperance in eating and
drinking so that we shall not have
headaches. young medical man
said not long ago: 81 am disguised
with my work. am expected to cure
Ia man of disorders and diseases which
are largely the result of his evil APP
lpetites and passions; and then, with
iout touching his soul, leave him to
return again to wallow in his evil. All
} that | am doing is to undo the divine
work of education whereby man is
. that he has sinned i'm the SOUL And
IL quote from Massachusetts pastor
who has spent some time abroad study
ling this subject: at was humiiatine
to stand in some of the large clinics
of Europe and hear physicians of in
ternational reputation delivering HON
lilies to men on the relation OF
: their sinful living to the state OF
, their health and happiness, and then
lrecall how little that theme had found
; place in Christian pulpits. The simple
fact is that the world today is being
: filled with nervous wrecks, with suf
, ferers not only in body but also in
/ mind, because the world is being fill
/ led with sinners, because men behave
themselves disorderly toward God and
their fellow beings and because they
live irrationally. While men are for,
} getting God in their haste to builG
: huge barns, God is crying to our age
/ through overlooking nervines and rapid
/ lly increasing nervous disorders, 'Thol
| fools, this very day thy souls are be
: ing required of thee for thy sinfu
/ greed, and while men are busy talk
i ing of the new disease, which they
J lproudly term 'Americanitis, nervous
) ness, they are forgetting that ont