The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-21
MINISTER SAYS
MIND SCIENCE
is ESSENTIAL
PASTOR OF EAST HILL BAPTIST
CHURCH GIVES INTERESTING
SERMON ON POWER OF MIND
OVER MATTER AS KNOWN TO-
DAY.

the occult sciences or which 1T is an
accredited part, the Rev. E. E. Rice,
pastor of the East Hill Baptist church,
preached last night to a large con-
gregaion assembled in his charge.
The minister said that he favors
mental suggestions as an aid to the
cure of disease in most cases but must
oppose it when it is merely cloak to
schemes parading as scientific. The
most important thing to observe in the
sick-room is a cheerful attitude, he
said, for from faith in ones ability to
feel he will get we'll lies much of the
efficiency Of the medicine, the preacher
said.
his sermon he said:
Suggestion is one of the most IA
miliar terms in the vocabulary Of
modern psychology. I mean by it, the
mode of introducing something to the
mind, either by word, look or act. By
it mental therapeutics is made posi-
BILE; by it disease has been banished,
nerves restored, pain eliminated, in
valids restored to health and the halt
made to walk. Many physical dis
orders are traceable to mental dis
orders. No doubt many are cured by
suggestion, where drugs get the credit,
whereas if the truth was known the
efficacy of the drug was in it being
present and not in its essence; its
presence being a stimulant to the i'm
agination, which assisted in restoring
the mind to a cheerful and optimistic
mood and thereby removing the clog
in the way of Nature; and Nature did
her perfect work. A healthy minded
attitude means much to every organ
of the body.
THE DON'T WORRY MOVEMENT.
"Pessimism leads to weakness, opti
mism leads to power; thoughts are
things; thoughts are forces; mind-cure
principle pervade the air; from every
quarter we hear of the gospel of rela-
ton; of the don't-worry movement.
Complaints even of the weather are
forbidden in many households. Avoid
the misery habit as much as possible.
Cancel from your mind the long list
of breads anxieties land pessimistic
expectations, and you will need less
medicine True, there is an extreme;
a certain amount of worry may be
necessary for progress. Worry may be
justifable at times, but so often you
trouble trouble, when, if left alone,
the trouble would not have troubled
you.
Thought is a mental impulse that
has a definite effect on the physical
man. I am of the opinion that medi
cine advertisements which give symp-
toms of the disease, cause more de-
preston and diseases than they cure.
The power this kind of advertisement
exerts in creating want in order that
they may supply, is little short Of mag
ical. These suggestions make war
with peace. The body will more or
less follow it's pattern. the mind. Then
let us be careful how we think.
"One may say, How can help what
1 think?'
MY answer is by refusing to harbor
them if they are not suggestive to
health and happiness.
CALLS 1T "PERKINISM."
ST cannot keep the birds from flying
over my head, but / can keep them
from building a nest in my hair. An
eminent physician declared that over
half the patients who get well, could
have gotten well without medicine.
Perkins devised roads of zinc and cop
per which were supposed to draw dis
ease from the body. He had over five
thousand genuine certificates from
persons stating they were healed by
them. He had a factory in New Eng
land and later a hospital in London.
But a wave of ideas opposite to this
sprang up, and all the healing powers
of the roads were gone. Since then
many other contrivances have come
up which may be said to be variations
of Perkinism and the secret of their
healing efficiency is found in this one
word, Suggestion
while suggestive therapeutics have
been brought in bad repute by people
who have abused it and by those who
wrap with it deadly poison for the
soul, yet it's healing efficiency cannot
be denied. Behind it are the favorable
opinions of many leading physicians
who say that actual experiment and
the history of it prove that nearly all
persons are subject more or less to
this influence while in normal condi-
tions. In visiting the sick room our
suggestions should be in way that
II casts no reflection upon the in
struction the physician has left, or It
will bring antagonistic suggestions in
the mind of the patient and often eff
feet the nervous system. It is said by
hypnotists that If a subject was hyp-
Noticed and two hypnotists suggest to
him the opposite at the same time It
would give him a nervous shock and
if repeated often would wreck the
strongest organism.
Mind over matter is proven again
by the chemist who tells us that a
mother can become so angry that her
milk will become charged so as to
poison the babe, and that man can
become so angry that the perspiration
that oozes from the pores of his skin
will be charged in chemical compost
! ton. What makes this change thought
THINK FOR YOURSELVES.
Auto suggestion also should be bet
ter understood. Turn your will upon
your wants. hold it there as a mari
ner holds his proud ship upon its
course. One great thing common in
Napoleon, Grant and Lee was their
will and self reliance. Such may bring
harvest where, without it. would be
| a failure This is the attitude OF
| kings: Do not depend wholly upon
others to do your thinking and to sug-
/ gest for you, but think for yourself.
/ Whatsoever things are just. whatso-
| ever things are honest, whatsoever