The Detroit times., 1913-06-17
CLAIMS TO HEAL
SICK BY ABSENT
TREATMENT
Enetirely Practical and Natural
Operation. Mrs. M. E. Chaplin
Tells New ThOughters
HER FIRST CLINIC
is CONGREGATIONAL
Promises, However, to Treat
Individual Cases Later
in Week

Healing the sick by absent treat
ment' is an entirely practical and nat
uIal operation, accordig nto the state
met OF Mrs. Mary Z. I. Chaplin, of
New York, before the convention OF
the National New Thought alliance. in
the Church of Our Father. Monday
morning. Mrs. Chaplin Is pastor OF a
New Thought church in New York
and Is healer of prominence, with
many former patients In that city and
In Boston.
Can l heal the s:ck?" | have been
usked recently" she said. We'll.
wish that ! could count up the mum
bCrs whom have made we'll"
Then az an example. she told OF @
woman, OF Canton, Mass, relative
Of Charles Sumner, Of Civil war fame
who was Ill with erysipelas and ton
silitis, and who, she said, had been
given up by Ave physicions with the
statement that she could not live
through the night. "A friend tele-
graphed.' and her assertion, request
inl me TO give her absent treatment
by healing thoughts, which | imme.
dia:ely did. The next morning | re-
ceived word that she was very much
better and within week she was
able to travel by automobile.
That seems impossible to the lay
mind. but II Is very practical and
normal The statement OF Christ that
'As man thinketh in his heart SO
Is he Is literally true. Thought al
ways forms the substance. IL has the
control over material life -
Mrs. Chaplin conducted the Monday
noon healing clinic. II was con-
eregotional exercise for general treat
n,ent. without special patients. Mrs.
Chaplin said however that she would
treat particular persons later in the
week
The exercise opened by the audience
going into the silence" at the re.
quest OF Mrs. Chaplin, that is period
OF silent prayer.
Following this. Mrs. Chaplin said
Let each one OF you hold In your
minds the thought that the divine love
Fills you. The doors and windows OF
your souls and all the avenues of your
beng are open to the infowing and
oItflowing OF the divine treatment
making the whole"
After the short prayer or talk in this
vein the audience was dismissed
The chief address OF the morning
WAS given by j. NJ. Gonigale, OF Pitts
burgh, who took the place of #. Harry
GCze. OF Seattle. Wash, on the topic
How Now Thought will transform
the life OF humanity"
Our religion to be effectual," he
said, must be based on fundamen.
tai principle and the principle of New
Thought Is the life OF Christ"
He declared there vas also need
for proper designation Of the belief.
pointing out the success OF Christian
Science. which he asserted, was part.
ly due to It's name including the two
great words, Christian and science.
AS name even better than that and
a substitute for New Thought, he ad-
vocated Divine science"
He told OF his experiences since
joining the New Thought movement
% years ago. and maintained that. he
held 10 pragmatic philosophy; tha,
the reason for his faith is that II
works In life.
Paul Tyner, an editorial writer on
the Dayton O., Journal. told OF con-
ditions in Dayton during the time OF
the recent food. He is a New
Thought follower of long standing.
and happened TO be in the city, hav.
ing just returned from the Detroit
Board OF Commerce cruise Several
others of the more than hundred
who are attending the convention
made talks of a few minutes each.