Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-06
CURED, SHE ASSERTS
Mrs. Deborah Many Tells of
Her Experience Yesterday.
|EYESIGHT WAS IMPAIRED
Benefited by Col. Sabin's Treatment,
She Says.
EXPLANATION BY HEALER
Claims That Divine Power Operates
Through Human Instrument on
Receptive Subjects.
EXPLANATION BY HEALER

"A man must be willing that God heal
| him.
That was the answer Col Oliver c.
Sabin. bishop of the Evangelical Christian
| Science Church. made today in explain
| ing how he accomplished the healing
| of six afflicted persons before large
| assembage at Rauscher's yesterday aft
| ernoon
Six persons were relieved of their aches
and pains by the bishop yesterday. One
woman, who said she was Mrs. Annie
Reed of 1874 14th street northwest, and
who complained of suffering from neu-
ralgia and rheumatism in her head and
foot and who walked with the assistance
of a cane, appeared before the bishop,
who passed his hands lightly over her
back and head, praying meanwhile. He
treated her silently for while and In
few minutes she began to smile and de-
clared all pain had left her.
Another man who said his neck had
been paralyZed for number of years, and
still another complaining of terrible
headache, left the bishops presence as
serting they felt no more pain. Six in
all were relieved of their sufferings. and
although others pressed forward to re-
ceive treatment from him, the bishop sank
into chair and declared he could give no
more treatments that day, having been
completely exhausted. both mentally and
physically, by the strain on him.
Ascribed to Divine Power.
Col. Sabn, in talking with reporter
for The Star today, said there is nothing
miraculous or unnatural in the power he
exerts God is the healer" said Col.
Sabin. THAT must always be understood.
Man is the instrument through which
God works, as Peter said to the assem-
bled multitude on the day of Pentecost.
I'm order to heal,'' continued Col. Sabin,
I'VE must understand who God is, who
man is. and the language by which to ap-
proach the infinite God and obtain an al
firmative reply All that is is good God
is in all and through all. Ii you make
this proper understanding in your con-
seriousness and so declare to your patient,
either consciously or subconsciously, and
deny the power, the reality OF sickness,
or whatever the inharmony sought to be
destroyed is, the result of that under
standing is that the sick are healed.
'In many cases of healing the procedure
is expedited by what we term the laying
on of hands. To return to this power II
self it is not possessed by myself aione.
1t belongs to all the children of God.
am not one whit bigger man In re-
spect to the healing power I exert than
many members of my church
The Evangelical Christian Science
SHuICH "dS VI 6oAA1CO - SSPsSAo3
1898. The sacredness and divine origin
of marriage and the family relations
are corner stones in the structure of the
churchs doctrines The keynote of the
religion, according to Col. Sabin, is:
Love God with all your heart, and
love thy brother as thy self.
Not Something New.
Col Sabin said he wished to make 1t
clear he is not a member of the Chris
tian Science Church of which Mrs.
Mary Baker Eddy was the reputed
founder 1.-The Evangelical Christian
Science Church in no way is connected
with the Church Of Christ, Scientist"
said Col. Sabin. Il do not claim, as did
Mrs. Eddy, that / have discovered or
revealed something new in the man
ner in which heal the afflicted. Neither
is my church conducted for the per-
sonal gain of myself or any coterie of
persons. Healing as demonstrated by
myself and other members of the
church has been practiced for thou
sands of years.
Il do not say medical practitioners should
never be called in to treat a sick person.
Medicine ofttimes saves a PERSONS life or
enables him to fight off the ravages of
disease. 1t has it's limitations, however,
and 1 can cite any number of instances
where patients whose lives have been
dispaired of by doctors have been restor-
ed to health by myself and other healers
of my church"