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Copyright, 1910
THIRD PRINTING
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I.
Page
II.
27
III.
53
103
139 169
205
preface
HE
he alive
amend
and
feel
" Of
the making of
is
no end."
We
find issuing
some
" The
in
opposition
New Thought,"
The Power
ment," "
of Suggestion," and
the
a widespread popular
pages has been to
The endeavor
in
these
may be
tention,
line
and to indicate
in briefer
compass the
forces,
[v]
preface
The
larger part of the material in the sixth
chapter was formerly used in a little booklet entitled The Gospel of Good Health," published
by The Pilgrim Press, Boston, in its "Envelope Series," and it is republished here by their kind permission. It has been freely
retouched.
[vi]
Cl&e J^eaWng
pHteitm
of Cl^rijSt
is
highly
suggestive
that
in the
Greek
New
Testament
in
ceris
the
tain
word
translated
passages
in
"to save"
translated
other passages
make whole."
This would
seem
the same.
life.
And
conversely, for
man
to
be
truly "in
his
digestion,
functions are
he
is
applied
both processes
ing energy.
to his
and healed
He was
sound in
it
is
[3]
!faiti^
and
l^ealti^
soul.
It is
one
now
air
utilizing
and
desires,
utilizing
impulses
fresh
and
confi-
now
and pure
sub-
ment.
energy
In either case
at
we have
same divine
and
work
restoring,
life
up-building
completing the
according to a purpose
eternally beneficent.
It is natural, therefore,
it is
inevitable, that
religion
and medicine
should be close.
the pastor
who
turn
life,
which
which
in
upon physical
health,
to the body,
character, should be
dial terms,
better
is
if
he attempts only
how human
[4]
W^t
may
who
is
are to profit by
The
known
also as
not inappropriate,
ligion to health to
speak
first
of those acts in
His
life
miracles.
and unfair
to define
the
amazement
of the people.
miracle
is
which at present
experience.
lie
ordinary
In what we
the
we
find
when we
appointments with
ministering
to
foreseen
them with
in the
of administration, but
same abiding
fulness.
lous,
And
miracu-
we
find this
iffattl^
anD
i^ealti^
to
festing
lie
itself
according
methods
which
at
present
ordinary
experience.
Now,
those
close-knit
life
is
of Christ's
He wrought
upon the
He called them His being what He was, these were the "works"
called
He
them
'
signs "
they
pointed
to
He
more and
on.
He
used
draw the
without attention.
He
used them as
He came
the race.
to
life
of
We
[6]
W^t
insight
of Christ.
occurrence.
His teachings
in
in
their
and comprehensiveness,
their
poise
and
all
His
life
itself
was so unique
dance,
that
in its quality
and
in its
abun-
we
are
prepared in advance to
may have had some response to make to Him which it does not make to other individuals. And when we
believe that the natural order
find these occurrences described in the serious,
men
as
who
some
of
them
actual eye-
we
are ready
to
these
the
healing
min-
of
Christ.
that,
it
More than
crisis
was a time
of moral
Judaism,
life
of that
day, was
weak through
perversions
the Pharisaical
and
Rabbinical
which
had fastened
upon
it.
The pagan
cults of
Greece and
Rome
[7]
fatti^
and
l^ealti^
intelligent
The morals of the world were becoming The gladiatorial games and other hideous.
forms of amusement current were such as to
indicate that the race might be almost
on the
itself
verge
of
moral
insanity.
Civilization
seemed
It
to be trembling
on the brink of
ruin.
was
when
come
and
form
of
religion,
whose
inherent
would be able
to
natures.
To
and
to establish
a look of scorn.
Certain people
but
we have been
[8]
surprised so
many
W^t
very
is
that
thoughtful
people
have
become
is
or what
told,
We
have been
with
an
air
of finality,
Let
his
all
lets
ask him
if
he
man
of sense,
"No,
wise
No
that he could
name
all
the laws
Here
was One
certain laws
and about
mysterious forces
than we seem to
to exer-
know
cise
at this time,
an unwonted potency.
When He
spoke.
and when He
outside the field
it
worked
He
In every case
until
is
we have
faitt^
some
these
better
anh
l^ealti^
to
evidence
of
upon which
than
deny
narratives
healing
the
mere
them because
in
them,
we
faith.
many
is
diseases,"
this
How
in
He do
let
it ?
final
this question,
but
You
will find in
He added
to that impulse
the cut finger to heal, the broken bone to knit, the system overloaded with
useless
to
some
ofiF
foreign or
substance to cast
universal
it
He
power
added
that
impulse
toward
of
recovery,
the resident
of His
the
own
He went
He
[10]
aimed
to secure the
co-operation of the expectant hope and confident trust of the patient himself.
He worked
an atmosphere of
trust
and upon
When He
unbelief
found himself
in
an atmosphere of
no
faith,
"He
could
do there no mighty
work."
How
The
centurion said,
servant
will
my
be
Two
men
followed
him
to
saying,
upon
us."
"Thou Son of David, have mercy He said, " Believe ye that I am able
do this?"
And He
They replied, "Yea, Lord." touched their eyes, saying, " According
it
to your faith be
were opened.
"Rise,
take
He
man,
when
to obey this
was
healed.
man and
said to him,
"Go
to the pool of
[11]
fam
faith
streets
anu
l^ealtli
by
feeling
his
his eyes,
he received
Ten
lepers
came
to
Him
for healing,
to
and
yourselves
their faith
the
priests."
by
a clean
bill
of
health
from those
"and
of
One
them returned
"Thy
made
thee whole."
Jesus said to
the
man
"Stretch
forth thy
hand";
showed
and the
sufferer,
hearing
those accents
conj&dence,
of authority,
his faith
of
love,
and
of
by making the
brave attempt;
and
hand was
restored.
When
home
of Jairus,
where the
was
sick
unto death,
He
who were
all
room,
out.
He
lieve;
thy daughter
is
He
took with
Him
room
Peter,
[12]
choicest disciples;
in that
He
These are
metHbd.
faith
known samples
that
in
of His general
The
is
fact
some instances
is
sufferer
not menthat
tioned
faith
conclusive
evidence
no
was aroused or
silence touching
utilized.
The argument
from
tive
some
means
little
in so
nent.
many The
cases of healing
narratives are
all
made promi-
brief
they had
it
can
And
the indi-
own
wise and
to give
numerous as
He
[13]
fatt]^ atiD
origin
f ealti^
You
will
and
character.
to
in
find
these
sufferers
referred
about
diagnosis.
When
the simple
human
per-
by some
it
hostile
must be the
has a devil,"
work
an
the
of the Evil
It
One.
to
"He
they said.
seemed
evil personality
had taken up
abode
in
of the sufferer.
to
When we come
There are
several
especially promi-
the
"What have we
Nazareth
!
do with
!
Let
us alone "
We
would
call
such a
man
to-day
of
[14]
Cl^e
f ealtng
Jesus asked
0iitaclt^ of
him
his
Ci^rtist
When
in
name, he replied
"Legion."
wild,
incoherent fashion,
He
Roman
abode
legion of devils
in
had taken up
mind.
governable
their
his
troubled
He showed an
strength,
"breaking
the
fetters
He
among
the
At
man
aside
clothing.
When
find
Jesus found
later,
him
he
he was naked.
We
him
after
was
restored, "clothed
and
in his right
mind."
We
would
call
such a
man
was
possessed of devils.
at the foot
the
Mount
of
Transfiguration.
When
fell
to
and foamed
if
at
the
mouth.
He
" take
writhed as
some
devil
it
would
[15]
mt^
boy
stated.
and
J^ealti^
such an
aflfliction
We
should
call
to-day epilepsy.
There was
the
woman,
spirit of
lift
herself up.
There was
man
with
say to-day a
"a dumb spirit," as we should man rendered mute by the paraIn other
inability to
this
was the
perform some
attributed to
certain function,
and
was
a particular kind of
devil.
Now
tions of
afflictions
which
still
to this day,
earlier
tific
we
time,
unused
who
sufiFered
the paralysis of
some
function,
some
ever
hostile personality
demon
or a devil.
And
He may
that
day,
whether
He
shared
in
the
period as
in so
life
many
of the limitations of
servant, or whether
He deemed
Christ
held.
himself
habitually
expressions.
He
healed
many
of these nervous
and
own
personality as
He
brought
it
to bear
upon
It
their need.
should
also be
noted
that
He
openly
that
A
for
they
new
mode
of
life
would be demanded
a per-
manent
cure,
and a new
if
spirit
and purpose
would be needed
He
When
the
palsied
man
borne by
first
word
[n]
faitt)
spoken
auD
i^ealti^
to his
it
physical
went much
thee."
deeper:
sins
be forgiven
Afterward the
man was
power
of Chirst to take
up
his
When
at the
Jesus
pool of
He
!
said
to
him,
made whole
Sin no more
Where
some moral
delinquency, and where the healing was withheld by an unwillingness on the part of the
sufferer to
"about face"
in his
fundamental
to forgive
He was
in
no sense a proin
physician
engaged
lucrative
He would
office of spiritual
leadership.
He would
power
to
Palestine
would have
line of effort.
He was
some
of the
modern
professional
who undertake
show
by bread alone.
uniformly a
He
field
He
dom and
diseases.
healing
many
all
display.
The
One who
hurt
possibly
down unwould
not
He
might
have
done,
street
Him
to
He
said
on many oc-
when some
tell
sufferer
no man."
He
heralded.
He was
unwilling to be regarded
more
serious
it
interests
at
heart.
He had He knew
also that
would be inadvisable
[19]
fattl^
ferer
and
l^ealti^
healed to be continually
recovery.
quietly,
wholesome conditions
were being treated.
who
Now
it
we
where such
treat-
value.
He
Have
took pains to
faith
on
faith in
God."
"Fear not;
words
those
only
believe."
He
used
to
frequently
addressing
who came
Him
for relief.
Faith
is
and
of will,
for,
to the thing to
hoped
ready
accept
as
absolute
some valuable and wholesome suggesThis was the mood on the part of the
[20]
Cl^e l^ealing
patient
in
0iitacW
of Cl^rtjSt
wrought.
He
and
a sympathetic
helpful
He He
He
the
When
boy
do anything," Jesus
believe;
all
replied,
him
that
believeth."
He
in
took with
Him
the
many
fact is
mentioned
others
They
had seen
Him
any case
He
undertook.
significant
And
added
then,
most
of
all,
Jesus
to the
and
and
pulse
toward
recovery
resident
in
human
[21]
it
cannot throw
He
added the
reinforce-
ment
of His
own
ing personality.
will
was
to
make men
in
The
full
strength
around and
ills
their
when you
and
He
thus wrought on
I
am
aware
who
windows
of
some medieval
or in
some
lovely
poem,
that
I not only
is
on forever
for
human
Violations of natural
law"?
Nay, rather
[22]
Clfte
l^ealtng
piiutW
in
of Ci^n'jst
the situation as
It is possi-
men
sensed
it
ble for
bit of
any
intelligent
man
to
approach some
and by
skillful irrigation,
life,
and by the
it
scattering
of a few seeds of
like the rose.
to cause
to blossom
The
by the introduction
new measure
if
of energy
and
intelligence.
Now,
" the
an ordinary
of
man
course
field,
nature "
in
particular
barren
do what she
what
shall
we
field of
moral,
[23]
fatti^
it
anD
l^ealtl^
needs.
I
modern
would
strive to help
in his
mind
our
eternal Christ
in
The
of
His
life
was
Him, the
now sustains universal and cosmic relations. Would that each one might know in some more vital way that the help of the ever-present Christ who thus healed men of old is still
available
for
health,
for
guidance,
and
for
moral recovery.
Make
!
Strive,
if
you
will, to
make
life.
an
alliance helpful
may be
that as a
and
of privilege, "
We
never saw
it
in this fashion."
[24]
steepstill
est hill
by the mightier
The boy
had and
one of his
his feet
now
his
puny
fact
strength
that he
vastly
reinforced
by the
laid hold
of the
powerful engines
away yonder
all
the power
cables
house which
were moving
the
and
and
only
boy
in his prog-
up the
hill.
It is possible for
any one,
if
he
will
have
his
it
deep places of
own
soul,
tomed
life
to go,
there
for
is
mighty
available
his
individual needs.
of old caused the
morning
of
God
in
their courses,
holy keeping
mtti and
all
is
t^ealtl^
It
the
And
still
that
same
and loving
ever,
is
Christ,
beneficent
tive
and redemptive
opera-
and available
faith.
[26]
jHonem
fyit^ curejs
II
f^o^nn
N
fait\)
ntt^
chapter the
of
the preceding
healing
miracles
Christ
were discussed.
to
We
an
seemed
find
there
for
adequate
unusual
occasion
some
the
a
of
introduction
We
found
great personality
upon the
scene,
Jesus
Nazareth;
we were make
to
sponse to
Him
which
it
does not
make
to other individuals.
contained
in
narratives
[29]
fattl^
abundant evidence
rate.
anti i^ealtl^
of being sober
and accu-
We
.
found
that
these
wonders were
utilized
of the race,
and thus
good rea-
became a
whole mighty
movement.
And we seemed
to find
unique in ministering to
human
to His
In the very
disciples,
last
address
He made
we
"
He
do
shall
he do
also,
these."
has
men
and women.
We
find
down through
the cen-
measure,
operating.
It is in
modern
wish to speak in
this chapter.
We
saints a great
mass of
this material.
When
[30]
the
Roman
some candidate
for
made
not only as
of usefulness
lifetime,
and
after
he was gone,
had been
in the world's
history.
and prose,
"The
readiness
to
assent
to
every
indication
of anything
supernatural
Roman
And
their
keen
interest
in
demand for wonders to be wrought in And here as everythe name of religion. where, demand had a tendency to create supusual
[31]
fait})
ply,
anD
f ealtl^
at least the stories
of
When
saints,
of
the
medieval
And
Some
at a
much
less degree,
we
find the
same
day.
phenomena
of the
own
little
town
It is
Lourdes
in the south of
France.
an
is
Mary
appeared to a peasant
built
made
their pilgrim-
Hundreds
will
of
them have
an
inter-
been healed.
You
find there
aside by those
to
On
water also
we
find phe-
nomena akin
In the Church of
far
and crutches
left
[32]
by
cripples
who
have
been
miraculously
are the
And many
In our
of Boston, a
man whose
repeatedly,
at-
tended,
came
very
faith healer.
in
He
Hill,
the
center
dis-
Dr. A. B. Simpson of
now
same
at the
head of what
is
known
as the
Christian Alliance,
the
lines.
His followers
themselves
Christ
" Fourfolders,"
they
believe
in
as
Coming King,
visible return
and
[33]
fattl^
of Christ to earth.
anb
i^ealtl^
we
find
Dr.
movement, who by
by
his
little
and
cir-
a wide
circle of
people in
all
parts of Christen-
dom on
by Dr.
called
up
certain
having
been
healed
in
from God.
certain
diseases
Now
what
shall
intelligent,
discriminating
it all
people say to
aside with a
all this ?
We
cannot sweep
wave
it
of the
hand and a
curl of
the
lip,
calling
mere ignorant
superstition,
Take
into considera-
you must,
all
the failures
and
they
closely.
The
crutches, brought
St.
by
suffering cripples to
to
Lourdes and to
Anne de Beaupre,
still
needed, are
there are
enough
of
them
in the
No
by
be cured
and have
would be
reluc-
tant
to
confess
their
failure,
although they
to
one
they should
all
appear.
But taking
still
all
these
remains
this fact:
com-
he
may
as to whether he
was
And
may
not be competent to
faith, or
testify that
by
mt^
from such diseases
diagnosis.
anti J^ealtl^
that also
is
a question of
human-
to follow
it
up one hundred
of these cases
where
serious
maladies
He
had pronounced
by
incurable,
The
They went
influence
to the healers,
anointing and
the
earnest
Their exaltation of
was such
seemed
to
be improved.
And
then in
less
than
away
in
diseases
cured.
jHoDern
But
still,
fait})
mt^
this
of failures
movement, unwilling
an
indi-
and admitting
also
many
of the re-
still
remains, as I believe, a
find these stories of
in
When we
Middle Ages or
our
own
day,
we do
reject
We
do not
them
in the mass.
We
deal
and
verifiable
any given
case.
find, as
Now
suppose we
we
shall, certain
in
God.
Shall that
we
say that
is
real
Christianity;
this
what
Christ
meant when He
said,
"Greater works
do"?
Shall
we conclude
Christianity
modern
same way?
[S7]
ifatti^
It
and
l^ealti^
seems to
me
would be an
erroneous view.
shall
which would
result
from the
not
influence
of
Jesus.
"Greater works,"
amazing character
Christ, greater
their extent,
in
When
said to
He
He
them,
Israel,
"Go
of
kingdom
at hand.'
Heal the
sick,
Freely ye
have received,
freely give."
And when
they
went
fact,
out,
we
find
them
giving, as
a matter of
to the
their
work
main strength
[38]
hearts,
and the
wills of
men
in the interest of
new
character.
other seventy,
And when Jesus sent forth the He said, "Into whatsoever city
of
and
say,
'The kingdom
God
is
come nigh
they
unto you.'"
And when
they returned
were discussed
in
cured by them in
said,
many
instances.
And
Jesus
you
lightning,
heaven";
of
new
those to
whom
by Christian
ideals
and
principles;
in
such
institutions
as
churches and
in the
schools,
hospitals
and homes,
name
of
Christ
and by the
in the carry-
[39]
fatt]^
anD
l^ealti^
life
by Christian
by
we are
to see, according to
my un-
who
for
should be-
in
some
local
wonder,
which
an hour to
outshine
Now
we
it,
then what
of to-day?
In the
first
it
place,
will
vary
ament
of the patients,
of the people. of
and according
to the
mood
King
When
Charles II was
evil," as
it
was
King James
is
eight
hundred people
in
Whenever
rode through
the
streets.
Edward appears
through the
in character
streets,
to-day
London, riding
him thinks
for a
moment
of trying to touch
him
to be healed of disease.
And you
on the
of
thought,
fortunate
people in the
oflBcers
Army
at work.
we
find
a keener
we
would find
in
a college town or
those
in
city
church
made up from
who had
received
more
There
is
in faith.
mind which
[41]
mt^
accurately
aiTD i^ealtl^
measure
all
the
elements
is
which
This
form of
faith
among
is
who
intellectual
a form of
faith
which
not apt to
move mountains
There
is
or to
There
is,
constantly
bestows
new
then
energy upon
there
is
happy
possessor.
And
and
feeling of
certainty
which leads
its
all
and
of will, enabling
all
them
at times to
in the
apparently clear
obstacles at a
bound
The
utility of this
and according
by whom
[4]
to the prevailing
mood
of the people
he
is
surrounded.
tion
to faith
Any
physician will
you
disease
And when
where
there
there
is
is
concentrated
credulity
strong
touching
certain
is
unseen
remedial
agencies,
work on behalf
of
of the
then
the
chances
recovery
are
greatly increased,
of recovery
may be
greatly hastened.
In diseases of ac-
quickened
eliminate,
action
of
those
functions
are
which
some-
morbid
growths
thus
In functional troubles,
how
ini-
a strong, warm,
live faith in
our
and heal
all
our diseases,
may come
to
mt^
"Why
limit
it
anD
l^ealt]^
is
saying, perhaps,
not so
of
much a
If
question
man were
head had
lying
his
it
been cut
by a passing engine,
would
lie
his
away
alive;
all
this
OmBut
Omnipotence ever
cut off?
apostles or
work such
wonders?
saints
who
are
re-
No
If I
and have
to
my
leg
it
any one of
my
that a
new
might grow
[44]
Medical
science
alike
would
of
life,
as might enable
of usefulness.
me
to
still
possess
some measure
tude
In
we
indicate that
we do know something
we
we
Some
of our
ills
upon the
body
to act,
by
by the sense
forcement
alliance
feeling
of
with
faith.
through
And some
was
as
we
in that
way.
When
will.
Christ himself
intelligent
here. His
mighty
soul,
His
whom He ministered, wrought wonders. But He by no means healed all the sickness and disease in Palestine nor did He correct all the
[45]
fait]^
physical
ann
He
i^ealti^
to
deformity
brought
His
notice.
And
in certain places
He was
should
agencies
"Shall
his
we
Allah to-night?"
servant
said
to
pitching their
Mocamp
com-
an oasis
in the desert.
tie
them
first."
Do all
that
mon
any
faith
and your
trust in a mightier
power the
efforts of intelligence.
"Back of the
loaf is the
snowy flour.
And hack of the flour the mill; And back of the mill, the wheat and the shower. And the sun and, the Father's will."
It is all there to
will
loaf of
human
it
and ground
loaf.
it
in the mill
and baked
all
it
into a
those meas-
measures
There
is
lies
ing
utilize
that heal-
within our
own
power.
When we
arise in the
this
We
goes to his
to his store,
shop.
Each man
in
the gaining of
nipotent
daily
bread.
One
could drop
down manna,
[47]
fatti^
and
J^ealti^
sufficient for
its
and bread,
beneficent purposes as
fully,
men
intelligently, faith-
and
those
trustfully
using
public
and
when we
learn to go to
Him
it
aright.
out
lest
on
my
part
me
to also reverently
and
gratefully
which the
intelligence of
my
line of his
own
specialty, as I
am
working at
my
reach.
Four great
epoch-making
advances
have
the inpossible
making
Europe
is
not
now
at
[48]
smallpox
cities
as
formerly;
and our
own Gulf
are
not scourged
annually by yellow
fever;
surgery,
in
methods
in diagnosis
by the employment
and
all
the rest.
that
We
see
beyond
peradventure
the
spirit of truth,
Spirit,
well-being.
We
to
thank
God
for all
look ahead
still
be made by those
form of
service.
strong faith in
men who are choosing that And thus I add to my own those unseen aids which may
crisis,
my
conof
the
demonstrated
efficiency
medical science.
it
is
well to
remember
God
is
fait)^
auD
i^ealtl^
There
faith
faith in
God,
pale.
He
suf-
malady which he
called
"thorn
for
its
in
the flesh."
He
besought the
Lord
devoutly, but
And by
per-
"made
through weakness."
Thus he
learned to
it
to his
grave.
his
will find
name
in tender-
ness
when
faith
You were
them
doing
all
that
suggest.
But
finally
went down
apparent defeat.
at
It
you wondered
first if
your
[60]
was due
to
your lack
in
of faith.
own
underlies, overarches
and
our
these
precious
interests
of
of
strength to
strength.
It
may
;
in
the flesh
thrice,
have
it
removed but
still
remains.
may
if
But even
you should
fail,
know
which are
still
be
well,
if it is
a possible
Utilize, every
day
physical,
forces
!
which
Lay
arm
of the Almighty,
But however
may
all
come
know
[51]
that either in
mag-
faitl^
nificent
anD l$tam
sense of failing
health
or with the
still
be able to say,
"The Lord
shall I
is
the strength of
my
life,
of
whom
be afraid."
[52]
om
of
^ti^tim Science
in
Ci^e
^xo^
anti
Conji of
Cl^rtjsttan
Science
was a man
HE
of
great apostle
discrimination.
believe
in
He
did
not
swallowing
He
first.
He
or
some strange
He
carefully sifted
parts,
it
out.
He
and
weighed
value,
component
their
estimated
their
studied
general
tendency
direction.
things;
hold
which
is
movement known
[55]
as Christian
Science.
in this chapter
!ffafti^
anu
mass
I
J^ealti^
;
to
condemn
it
it
in the
know
too
much
about
it
for that.
And
do
am
indiscriminately; I
it
know a
that.
much about
may, those
to
thought and
that
is
effort
whereby
we can
ment.
hold fast
all
good
in the
move-
And
I believe I
I
may
modesty that
this.
have earned
my
right to
do
When
of
absurd the
common
It
reply
is,
not understand.
disappear."
Now
up
have studied
the subject.
my
knowledge
cram up on
Christian
hastily in a
week
for
sermon.
month
I
went
to the fountain
head for
[56]
my
instruction.
herself
was
lecturing
Cl^rtjstian
in
^ctence
my
great privilege to
Boston and
it
was
my
officers in the
Mother Church
and the
one
of
them the
strongest
clearest expo-
man
to
whom
Mrs.
Eddy
child
grand-
when
that child
was
hundred dollars
my
instruction,
for
may be
in
changing hands he
is
strictly to
His
things in general
do not extend
operate
insists
to financial
ordi-
much
the
of
same way
in that
he
advance."
have in
my
livered
fatti^
anD ^ealtl^
am
hang out
my
sign as a healer at
my
home
in
me
nay.
pamphlets
I have
on
this
subject
by the armful.
had
for
my own
these
is
Health"
twenty-three years.
My
personal copy
is
it
now
fifty
now
it
at
a premium.
It is
by
movement
to call
in the
as valuable because
and
do not appear
attended
later
editions.
have
Christian
Oakland,
in Boston, in
London, and
in other
places.
to the instruction
of their
l^ti^tian Science
teachers, their healers
and
their believers.
I
so-
do
this
what
have to say in
chapter on hearsay or on
diploma
in
my hand
in
cer-
that
the
science
and the
and cons
Let us see
first
what can
has un-
It
number
of
nervous, complaining,
self-
pitying people
who
much
new
set of
said.
stop
ills
believing as yours
ills,
for such
state of
are
all
morbid
mind.
Rise up
God meant
you
to enjoy."
And by
Eddy's statements,
[59]
!fatti^
it
auD
J^ealtl^
spirit
and the
people.
For
God
The
all
physicians
tell
the
ills,
ills
powerful
troubles.
putting
an
end
to
imaginary
it
number
of people
lepsy perhaps,
Sift the
evidence
the long
certain
of this
all
list
out and
make due
allowance for
of failures, there
still
remains a
number
movement.
has killed
is
I think
many
more.
This
first
not so
much
to
its
credit as
might at
appear because
it
has
peo-
many
who were
seriously
ill
from organic
diseases.
[60]
Cl^rtjsttan
Their own
friends,
Science
and that
of their
common
sense,
own
instinct
of
self-preservation,
to allow
them
Christian Science.
we
it
has awakened in
them an
and
none the
interest in religion
very curious
distorted
less.
form of
It
religion,
but a religion
Bibles, to thinking
to
upon
their personal
It
spiritual forces.
has
drawn
for
into
it
who counted
more than
in the
much
in Christian activity.
In that church
of which I
am
pastor, a church of
we have
twenty-
four
to Christian
list
Science.
recently
fait\)
and
J^ealtlft
and
number four
or five
The
others
might.
And
into
many
in the
of
life,
good people.
They
right, friendly
and peaceable.
In their
insti-
tutional
life
no such thing as
of kindness.
They
show
believe there
no
world to
be reformed.
in the nar-
Now having
[62]
Cl^rtjsttan
tone of
life
Science
for
many
some people
more
who
said
more can be
good
in their system.
But
side?
in fairness
what must be
Taken
which
many
I.
instances,
a cruel and
wicked
humbug.
It is
a humbug
in that
it
claims
to*
be the
It
demonstrates
power
pels.
Outside of
p. 80.
[63]
mt^
it
anu
l^ealt]^
to the world
by a
forty-three
years ago.
II.
It is
a humbug
in that
it
takes the
name
of "Science"
procedure.
"Treatises
on
anat-
sickness
and
disease.
It is proverbial that as
It is
humbug
in that
it
refuses all
which
"Physicians ex-
amine the
condition of matter;
when
in fact all is
mind
is
mind
^
must respond."
it
humbug
in that
teaches
its
"
[64]
Cl^rijsttan
Science
any value
at-
for our
to alter the
secretions
from the
cuticle receives
Christian healing.
We
make them
With
rules
a mistake.
digesstill
be
dyspeptics.
The
less
less
we know
or think about
hygiene the
ness."
'
we
V.
It is
is
a humbug
merely an
in that
it
disease
illusion of
mortal mind
and has no
which
are, as
a matter
"Man
ing this
is
is
[65]
mtt^ and
Mortal
l^ealti^
man
will
be
less
mortal
when he
learns
Discard
notions
mortal mind
when
which
instructed
steers the
by truth
yields to divine
^
power
body
into health."
I have
est,
well-meaning people
into
re-
this
ceive help;
some
of
help.
movement
is
But
for
those
are
more competent
engineering
the
great outlay
tions
ful,
file
which
is
beautiful
and
for those
men, some
[66]
Ci^tfettan defence
of
whom
came
to
know
personally
when
subject, I
have not so
much
To
foist
which
fever
tells little
or
may go
a cruel humbug.
To
tell
men and
women
mere
illusions of the
mind and
able insult.
that
there
is
belief,
becomes an unpardonall
To
the
's
well, for I
'm
well,"
is
an unpardonable piece of
effrontery.
had a
feeling that
many
of the criticisms
made
on
have
never
read
book,
"Science
and
[67]
mt^
give the
anb
l^ealti^
Health, with Key to the Scriptures," by Mrs. Mary Morse Baker Patterson Glover Eddy, to
accumulated by her
many
marriages.
do not
Among
this
all
tire-
list.
Any
man
or
mind would
rather
saw wood
and Health."
for himself
one to judge
reasonableness
contentions
let
the
Christian
Scientist's
me
the book
self to
itself.
Eddy
as
to
her-
appear in
the
language of her
own book
the
principles
of her system, so
that there
may
is
a copy
fifth edition,
Cl^rtsttan ^ctence
Street, Boston.
This
is
Bible.
It is
service
The Pope
at
Rome
permits
my
good
friend
at St.
Patrick's
Church and
St.
my
friend Father
Mc-
Sweeney at
of their
own
and help
she abolished
the office
of
pastor,
stating
that this
book
and provided
that,
What a
was!
faiti^
setts
auD
l^ealti^
man
in the
Episcopal
eloquent
of
the
Nineteenth Century,
imagine
him
abolish-
Church
and
should be said or
from one of
his
books
we have
sentimental schoolgirl
ing,
if
imagine
him
decree-
And
to
It
almost
when you
by
sin,
enter
the ranks
who
set out
no such thing as
in the
death
fall in
may be
prepared to
with
many
queer things.
[70]
Cl^ttjsttan
Science
I will now quote to you from "Science and Health " certain selections which will indicate
some
of
the principles
which underlie
this
movement.
Mrs. Eddy begins by scorning the use of
all
from the
beliefs of
mortal mind as to
their potency,
another in
its effects.
is
swallowed through
does
belief,
this death.?
Even
so,
and as
directly as
particular case
and
has been
set
down
The consequence
by the majority
is
controlled
[71]
jfattl^
of opinions
and
i^ealtl^
outside, not
by the
infinitesimal
^
by the use
of drugs,
it
and according
to this
away
The
of beliefs rule.
When
drug as doing
faith unless
belief
it
on Science
is
but a minority
^
You
effect of
any drug
rests entirely
of opinion,
and
if
we
ma-
all
be safely put
on the
list
under the
She proceeds to
*
[72]
ClftrijSttan
itary
Science
value,
and
"The
so-called laws
belief.
laws of mortal
The
premises being
Truth
makes no laws
to
Obea
checked
disease."
"Is
civilization
only
man
should
bow
down
to
exercise
and
much
of
it
as they want.
when
away
in
summer.
heed to
God
has provided to
and which
all
these
[73]
jfattl^
ann
l^ealti^
there
It is not
mind
nor matter.
Tumors,
dream
The dream
of disease
like the
dreams we have
^
in sleep,
wherein
mortal mind."
All
these
diseases
suffering
patients
are
hour are
like
saw
in
your dreams
some
intellectual flourish, as
we would
so
many
unreal ghosts.
Having
laid
down
disease,
she proceeds to
[74]
Cl^rtjsttan
dinary theories.
teresting
;
Science
one of the most
be
the
in-
Here
is
it
purports
to
testimony
of a
"My
ferer.
son, a year
and a
half old,
had
suf-
He was
He
in,
him down
again,
less
The
next
saw him he
^
ate
all
he wanted.
He
Think
months
of
that
little
chap,
only
eighteen
old, suffering
cians
laudanum
until the
[75]
faitt^
and
J^ealtl^
result of hav-
in her
arms a few
"a quantity
of
cabbage
ac-
neither
rhyme nor
does not
of the blackit
smith's
arm
The
hammer
is
Why
as
wood and
If
iron
is
not
on the hammer,"
it
into
its
head
hammer
it
should in-
crease in size
by being used,
might come to
Teach
and
who
[76]
Cl^rijittan
Science
various track events which give wholesome exercise to their developing bodies.
Teach
that
to
building
work
results.
no
limits
either
by
"I
it
had
sight
and
teeth.
lady of eighty-five
whom
lady of
knew had a return of sight. Another ninety had new teeth, incisors, cuspids,
^
read
that
statement
in
"Science
and
why
new
of teeth to be
methods
"one molar."
And
[77]
mortal mind.
" Electricity
is
not a vital
fluid
illusive
con-
sciousness
the
Electricity
is
some
of the non-
the great
difiFerence
is
real."
'
University
Hand
wisdom
boys and
girls that
which
ries
lights
theirs,
which
car-
you
upon the
ears, as
carries
themselves
tell
them
and communication
in
and bids
fair
to
usher
a new era in
is
manufacture as a form of
a form of "
illusive
power,
con-
[78]
Cl^rtettan Science
sciousness" and another bit of "the nonsense
of error."
The
tomed
no
reality,
course create them or destroy them merely by thinking about them in this
way
" Close
that
Thus you
learn that
may
see landscapes,
men and
evolves,
^
women.
Thus you
and
intelligence."
they
"We know
own
better.
evidence of our
senses.
we did not create them merely by thinking about them. We go far away in the mountains and
find the wild flowers
[79]
fattl^
in their gentle
anD
l^ealtift
beauty where no
human
eye has
rested
had aught
do with them
until
we chanced
to
discover them."
Her answer
is
"Any supposed
is
in-
matter as
if
an
illusion
of mortal mind
one of
^
its
dreams.
is
Realize
not to be acit
The words
instructive to
of
Mrs. Eddy on
this
if
and
would help
read them
thing
:
to clear
"
up her mind
she should
is
someor
will
dismiss
physics,
pleasure.
is
determined
idealist as If
would be
is
for the
besotted realist.
any one
in
doubt on
point
let
Let him
[80]
Ci^rtjsttan
Science
hand
in
the
fire,
chop
sit
comfortably
on a cake
and
so forth.
Here
is
a large
and
see.
is
And
before long
it
will
an
practical
it
purposes
is real.
That
is,
it.
we do
not produce
We
like
have to adjust
it
whether we
or not,
if
we
expect to live."
and we have
our
to adjust ourselves to
them,
whatever
metaphysics
may
be.
Hunger may be an
illusion,
known
way
by securing
as food.
facts,
known
will
may
be very
known
as shelter, clothing,
[81]
mt\^ anD
like.
i^ealtl^
illusion
Arsenic
may be an
or
non-
we must not swallow it, neverthewire may be an illusion, but we not must take hold of it. Our bodies also may be illusions, but we must at least treat them
existent,
but
less.
live
in
certain ways,
we should not be more bound by them than we are." "A Christian Scientist who admits this
they were absolutely real
differs practically
from the
rest of
us in nothif
lies in
and
he
that
is
blizzard or
to flight the
many
ills
that flesh
heir to, or
there
is
ample room
for
decisive experiment."
If
the
wire
"the
supposed
of
information"
[82]
Cl^rfetian Science
stove or the live wire suggesting to you that
hurts, that your
it
hand
is
in
that
as fast as
you
Eddy
says;
"an
illusion
of mortal mind,
is
one of
sin."
If
its
dreams."
Neither
the evidence
of the senses to
with your
own
man
committing some
serious
know
mind
to
is
"an
illusion of
It is
one of
its
dreams."
a nice docis
not
be accepted either
of sin;
is
to
what
results
it
minds
of the un-
thinking
In
fact, that
gests to
most of us the
is
equally illusory.
"The
daily
no more natural
taking a fish
and
it
covering
it
with dirt
order
to
make
[83]
mt^
thrive
anD
jpealt]^
its
more vigorously
'
thereafter in
native
element."
members
of
society,
if
indeed their
children.
The more we
that these
minds
better
ofiF
without them.
thinks
mind
there
is
better.
When
it
claw
it
grows again.
were
understood
of
sensation.
Then
the
human
not with
'
an
artificial
'
[84]
}^tWan
If
Science
telligence
off;
we were all only on the lobster level of inwe should therefore be much better when we chanced to lose our legs or our
we
artificial
dream shadow."
I
And
!
this
book
is
This
the
book which
read in
all
the Christian
This
is
the
book
which the
little
children
life
who
irra-
are being
And
and
tionality,
life,
some
of the
down,
wicked humbug.
[85]
fatti^
anD
l^ealti^
those
statements
is
why
I
That book
there
do not laugh.
in their
and read
no
is
I did not
when
am
present at any
is
manner
others,
of religious service
it
which
sacred to
sacred to
me
while I
am
there.
The
meetings do
laugh
because
in
Eddy
urges
them
to
do
in her
all
is
book they
of the sense of
humor.
Mrs.
of
Eddy
herself
when I attended her lectures. She showed this when she came to name her new movement. With the whole
humor, as
I discovered
around everywhere as
[86]
is
common
Cl^rijSttan
it
Science
as
but
"Christian
it
SCIENCE," when
all
matter of fact
the fun-
damental principles of
is
procedure and
man
of
science
The naming
of the
of the
choicest bits of
humor
perpetrated upon us in
it
Mrs. Eddy or to
is
any
The
put
some
of
them
whole communities.
On
page sixty-nine of
Eddy
says,
"One
its
no more
real
than another.
All dis-
ease
ill
is
effects
handles the
as-
lies
[87]
jfatti^
and
l^ealtl^
my own
church had a
theria.
little
girl
who
contracted diph-
Christian Scientist,
and she
was nothing
belief of
was only a
The
little girl
went
sick,
until she
could go no longer
she was
and sick
physiit
was
"malignant diphtheria"
Two
contracted
the
disease,
attended
lives
them
also
had diphtheria.
and other
treated
of that
by Christian Science.
illness thrust
disregard of
law and
all
conunon sense on
[88].
t^vi^tian ^ctence
the part of the Christian Science healer and the Christian Science mother, the anxiety of
that family
and
but
peril involved in
having
Similar
occurrences
in
in
Chicago and
Boston.
of the
Christian
Scientists
present
heal
the
present
Christian
Science
are
They
are
[89]
fatt]^
usage of
of the
and
l^ealti^
selled to
is
no
is
more
all
disease
so,
the
community
point?
is
not protected.
What
is
is
a case
of contagious disease? I
Who
to decide that
am
average
layman
medicine,
and
have
am
am
stagey of the disease whether a child has scarlet fever or only chicken
rash.
am
[90]
Ci^rtjStian
Science
bad
This
is
a question of diag-
and although
nosis
healer
And
is
and the
But there
is
it is
dangerous
of the
whole generation of
children
who
up under
its
dwarfing
effect
influence.
the
of the chil-
of their
homes,
in
before you.
ing a
You can
such irrational
move-
ment.
The
the whole
development of
their
[91]
faiti^
day
;
anD
l^ealtl^
all scientific
methods
of thought
and action;
open antagonism
to the best
knowledge
of their
in-
human
movement placed
This
is
the reason
why you
cannot
name
to
me a single
logic or ethics in
any reputable
college or uniScientist.
who
is
a Christian
You
omy who
in
is
a Christian
Scientist.
You can
find
those chairs
Scientist.
The
intelligent
knows
upon which
he
is
appointed to teach.
ful
the aw-
[92]
t)vWan
You may drug
make
the
Science
to
man
feel
But that
man
to feel strong or
happy when he
is
neither,
frightful aberrations
and
abnormalities, until at last he pays the full penalty for his false
method.
it
You may
also
drug
the
mind by plying
You
can
for
make
for
if
an hour,
you keep
it
up.
But here
of the
mind
it
what
is
true,
drugging
unreal
is real, is
The whole
mental
life
false
method
of the system
is
espe-
of the children.
for
Some
I
of
them
do not need
little later
to account
was
called in
to conduct funeral
services.
A lady in Oakland,
[93]
California,
whom
ifaiti^
I
ann ^caiti^
was
suffering
knew very
well
from tubercu-
losis of
the lungs.
everything that
Christian Science,
had no
to
faith in
it,
She
time.
And one
of
the
Christian
Scientists
"How
glorious
is
it is
that Mrs.
prise, for
knew
ence."
Oh,
yes,
And
!
that cure
fer-
later the
husband
to
and
had
told
inevitable.
Ci^rtettan Science
The
famous
celebrated English earl
article in the
who
wrote the
ago on "
relating therein
The Truth about Christian Science," how he had been entirely cured
of the heart,"
of "fatty degeneration
which
in-
made
quite a sensation.
It
was a
beautiful article,
sale.
The
in this
The
only
drawback about
days after the
was
article
in his case
and
to
had eaten
all
into
exposed."
widow
of her
own
brother, a
woman
for
whom
great-
to die
sfaiti^
ann
J^ealti^
The
made
east
and west,
show a
disease
nosis
and the
unfair
it is
produce the evidence upon which they are basing these extravagant claims which are mis-
is
there
is
tion in
some
function,
due perhaps
to
some
one where
there
is
is
Cl^ri^tian defence
organ has been vitiated, but where
ture
this
is
its
it
strucis
little
if
at all changed.
And
in
forces
much more
ters, that
by other schools
chap-
of healing, to
be discussed
later in these
won whatever
its credit.
success
may be
honestly placed to
The
disease
by the power
all
nized by
of mind,
"The way
broken
strewn with
hearts
Eddy
make such
allow-
ance."
I
it
appropriate to enter
The
is
claim
is
being
I
made
avaricious.
have
my
[97]
fatti^
and l$mt\^
if
own
you
will look
have yours.
that
when she
July,
must
by the
testi-
mony
of alienists
immense property.
I
have
Eddy
I
and
do not know.
at
Rome
attempts.
In
the printed by-laws you will find that she arrogates to herself the right to remove
any reader
no reason
in the land
by simply sending
him or her a
of the
letter
of
dismissal;
need be assigned.
And
whole movement
meth-
[98]
Cl^rijsttan
Science
officiary
and
all,
religious leader
known
I
its
have
system on
merits, as indicated
own
authoritative book,
And
in
view of the
perils
it
whole communities,
fect
it
in
ef-
of the
in its
abnormal
state of
adult believers, I
make my
what the
upon the
system of pious
humbug and
in
encouraging in
them a
and privations
moral
of their fellows in
a way that
of
wholesome
said,
is
"Prove
all
things; hold
effort
that
which
good."
In the
to
[99]
iJfatti^
ann
l^ealti^
The
va-
Church
to
form
of help.
It is for the
church to
sift
and
its
suffering
which
of
my
But some
the meth-
how
and unseen
od of
it
in
a more
effective
way
I shall
fully in
some
of the chapters
which are to
fol-
low.
my
chosen profession I
I
have been working steadily and strenuously. have not been healed of cancer or Bright's
ease or bubonic plague any
dis-
that
[100]
t)vi^tian Science
period I have worked hard and have been ready
for
my work week
in
and week
out.
In
of
all
any kind
an
was
sick.
throat, or
more
serious maladies
from which
suffer,
men
them
and
women sometimes
for
resist
without
And
is
in
doing
this I
only an
awkward
and confusing
I will only
caricature.
this further
add
word,
our com-
mon
who
will
way
helps
available
for
increased
physical
effi-
ciency. You need not take leave of your senses. You need not indulge in any mental hysterics
You need
[101]
mtti ann
movement
of your
this autocratic
i^ealti^
in order to follow
own day
They have
their
system
If
you
study,
life,
dient
and aspiring
more deeply
message min-
and
meaning
of the
which
istry,
Lord
is
upon me begood
cause
He
hath anointed
me
to preach
He
hath sent
me
to bind
to preach deliverance
and
if
to set at liberty
them
that
are bruised"
you
will
message, you
may
in
rience go far along the road to the realization of the high claim that
iniquities
He
can forgive
all
our
and heal
all
our diseases.
[102]
^uggeistfon
IV
HERE
tures
is
a vast amount of
in the scripoffer us in-
sound psychology
where they
along
struction
moral
If
and
spiritual lines.
you would
it
form the
go about
in
"Whatsoever
on these things."
Pasture
cow
to give
good milk.
nish the
delicate
up
life.
into
the
very
your
"Be ye
your mind,"
by
[105]
faiti^
and
finer
and
your
J^eaiti^
by the energies
of youi:
mouth and
of the
now
dom.
of wisis
As a man thinketh
he
The
will
ally.
mean
transform a
man
either physically or
mor-
He means
that states_of
mind, prevailing
Morbid conditions
of
by morbid conditions
will
of body.
and
irresolution, fear
a
in
soil
its
development.
all
Healthy
grudge,
states of
bitterness
and
minds
I
filled
make
for health as
do sunshine,
[106]
As a man thinketh
insistently,
be
it
up
" The
body
tell
man
suddenly that
fatal
some one he
accident,
loves dearly
whatsoever.
liar
Tell a
is
man
it.
of
honor that he
is
and
his face
a thought
regis-
changes.
A
way
if
a thought
will
work a
life.
radical
Now
you by
which we
all
know,
thinking,
it
may become
"A
[107]
faiti^
is
anD A
l$taltl)
great
primarily mental.
many
people
debility,
inexpressible
realize
woes.
Much
I
oftener than
we
these
real
But
to
be cured by physic.
The
a
of a conviction that
is
body
infirm
all
and imputes
the medicine in
Hundreds
it
is
cannot think at
all
assumption.
ulus of
And
faith
new
of the
means the
influence exercised
upon
The
Max
[108]
in dealing
menall
origin, is
coming
to
be recognized by
intelligent physicians
and by people
it.
generally.
You can
vital
The most
assimila-
functions
we know,
digestion,
them
constantly
state of
mind.
"A
a cheerful dis-
The
when
fat,"
has physitake
ology on
its
we
we
The
processes
of
which have
to
waste, of fatigue
mind.
"Mind
trol
cure
is
that demoralize.
if
necessary.
The
faiti^
anu
J^ealti^
The mind
liber-
vital fluids
physical
power
of thought in a
most
scientific
way.
He
in his laboratory
disk.
He
told the
to think of
some
difficult
it
problem
mentally.
in
mathematics and to
try to solve
As
the
man began
to
He told
the
man
to think
and
And
field
as the
man began
making a
The
blood was
these organs.
l^ealfng po^x)tx of
^ugge^tion
an
easier table.
The
in the
Thoughts are
ill
and
their
power
for
good or
can be
Here then
blood can be
is
a force to be used
to flow
If the
made
more
freely here or
all
if
the pro-
and
ill
by mental
which are
conditions,
in constant
if
all
those functions
we
is
suggested
in his
those words,
As a man thinketh
heart so he becomes
You
the
somewhat elaborate
of
"The Therascien-
by such
[111]
mti) ann
tific
J^ealti^
men
it
as
Liebeault,
find
Schofield
and Dubois.
You
will
cators.
We
by suggestion.
The
new
is
some
trifle
thing else by a
sion for his wail
thus forgotten.
is
The
he
it
child
is
told that
kiss
is
n't
much; make it
is
"Mamma
well
!
will
it
and that
;
Now
all
well "
the
suggestion
\
Suggestion
may
be utilized
in curing
bad habits
and
in
children.
We may
up
to
and
utilize
it
in dealing
We may
to
educate
better
mind by suggestion
move
and
in
wholesome
states of feeling,
in that
way
and
in developing character.
It is needless to
[112]
the
power
of
mind over
matter, the
power
its
limits.
power has
its
limits unless
it
in
by the
power has
its
limits;
I could
it
my
up the
not
it
away.
Yet the
its
fact that
my
limits does
indicate that
is
of little worth.
I can
by
and
right resolving
The
power
thing; no
may
Let
me
put
it
more
concretely.
Here
is
[113]
faitl^
anD
i^ealtl^
woman who
pepsia.
is
suffering
she
is
and
losing strength;
It
she
is
afraid of
is
total collapse.
may be
this
that there
question
no organic
disease, then
ponder-
much
as a
new
state of
mind.
she
She
When
if
talks to
in that
nervous, fretting
way
it
almost seems as
she
The
other people
is
being re-
which
is
made when
end of the
It is
thoughtlessly acquire.
This
pepsia
woman who
is
suffers
Martha, troubled
about
many
things,
and
St. Vitus,
[114]
She cannot
sit
down without
some
sit
drumming on
ornament on her
She
will
in the
fro.
You know
less that
the Europeans,
who
Americans are so
sit
down
they cannot
if
be
still,
they
This
woman
eats in
mind
sleeps
is
robbed of
fitfully,
its
value.
is
She
uncertainly
and
and she
losing
power
Here
is
is
"indi-
If there is
no
organic disease,
suggestion
will
do her ten
she will only
and
at intervals of
if
day,
mt^
ful, it will
anD
i^ealtl^
The
in
will
re-
sults
may not
a day,
work
sys-
a beneficent change
tem.
in her
whole nervous
:
" Quietly,
<
it
would be
good
for
least suspicion
If
that he
headed
in that direction.
you
loud,
moving with
your
or
all
if
you
unstrung, feeling as
stop right there
!
you might
Sit
fly
to
pieces,
down and do
your exercises
Say
You can
states
if
thus
set
control
it
you
about
in the right
We
random thoughts
come and
us.
settle
down
to
summer
had
it,
As
^You
your head, but you can keep them from building their nests in your hair."
sible
You
are respon-
for
those
states
of
retain
/
and
cherish.
and
persistent suggestion,
it
change
I
all
that
and make
a
right.
When
to time
it
then by giving
little
attention
from time
itself.
This
is
James
gists
call
These
men
believe
mind
is
and that
continue
may
am
we need
[117]
jfatt]^
and
l^ealti^
not
quarrel
in
about
terms.
There
is
surely
is
something
indi-
When you
time you
lift
are walking
down
it
street,
every
down, every
one going
it
involves
of will, but
you are
some
friend
scious
you.
The
minor
sub-condetails of
to the
many
day
life.
The
skilled
performer on a pipe
things, as
is
organ learns to do
automatically.
many
we
say,
His mind
intent
upon the
and
themselves
him while
his fingers
aright
upon the
keys.
He
the organ to secure the desired result, scarcely conscious of the details, for his entire conscious
attention
playing.
is
[118]
learned
something about
in
this
sub-conI
scious
mind
my own
am
a stenographer; I earned
for a time,
in the
home
office of
insurance company.
I took dicta-
became very
and with
the insurance
lingo
own
of correspondence.
it,
without even
I
had
on that evening.
The
letters.
sub-conscious
to
its
duties as
He was
"
jollying
them up," as he
I
called
it
in his
business
letters.
would take
[119]
his dictation,
mtt)
recording
the
mh
i$talt\)
of
jokes,
some
hearing
them very
man,
without
I
ever
them.
Then
when
came
to write out
I
my
shorthand notes
on the typewriter
new
to
to
me and
first
for
the
it,
time.
am
conlies
below the
level of
work mightily
You
in
worked out
in elabo-
rate fashion
his
by many
writers.
Henry Wood,
mental
"Ideal
Suggestion
through Mental
series of
which he undertakes
to
photograph
in
on a
single page.
it
This
is
to be
itself
it
registers
He
believes
will
120
something
else.
all
wholesome and
to
his little
many
I
and which
have given
to
lent results.
my own health and many other people, with excelIt is made up entirely of phrases
It is
from the
scriptures.
air.
as harmless as pure
it
water or fresh
If
it
It is
and the
with
as
to
different as
is
spring
Let
me
if if
give
you an
illustration
of
this
method,
tion or
you wish
be treated by sugges-
you wish
to learn
how
to treat yourills
those
which can
be relieved
in this
way.
Make
yourself as easy
easily in
side.
You
let
are
now
your
rest.
ears
hands
you
iffatti^
auD
either ;
will
i^ealtlft
them
your own.
Now
me
in that relaxed
of restfulness follow
through these
sets
suggestions.
of them,
for
Sun-
day two
if
you choose
to use
daily ex-
They
are arranged in
series cul-
one of the
ease, repeat to
yourself these:
Aids to Suggestion
I.
To banish fear
believe.
Fear not
Fear not
to give
no
evil, for
Thou
art with
me.
To
bestow confidence
shall
be
my
122
He
is
Lord
Jacob
is
with me.
my
refuge.
Be
The
my God He it is that goeth with me. He will not fail me nor forsake me. know whom I have believed and I am persuaded that He is able to keep that
Lord
which
I
III.
To
increase faith
Have
Great
faith in
God.
him
that believeth.
thy faith
be
it
thou
wilt.
Thy
faith
has
made
thee whole.
IV.
To promote healing
The
the nations.
The Sun
of Righteousness
is
The
[123]
fatt]^
and
my
l^ealti^
He
forgiveth
all
iniquities.
He
healetb
all
my
diseases.
V.
To gain peace
Thou
wilt
is
keep him
in perfect
mind
stayed on Thee.
My
peace I give
be afraid.
passeth
all
The
peace of
God which
under-
To develop
strength
shall
Tbey
that wait
renew
their strength.
of
the strength of
my
life,
whom
shall I
all
be afraid.
Christ
I can do
things through
who
strengtheneth me.
[124]
A
If
like medicine.
if
know
is
these things
happy are ye
ye
do them.
Happy
God
of
Jacob for
his help.
VIII.
To induce
all
sleep
Come
unto
Me
you
rest
rest.
for the
in
to dwell in safety.
He
Give
until
it
fills
entire consciousness.
Seek to absorb
[125]
full
it
significance as
fatt]^
anb
life.
i^ealti^
Fear
dread.
conquers
all
"
God
hath
and
of a
sound mind."
Fear
not,
it
the
the
entire
control
of
your
Per-
by love
harm.
for
God and
it
love for
fellows has
no
Thou
art with
me
Great Companion
the heart
freed from
its
anxiety.
Your thoughts
will not return
they
will
go
far
be your strength.
Be
still
He
is
God
some
!
by the
Be
still
and know
The Lord
[126]
of Hosts
is
with
J^ealtng po^x^n of
you;
the
^ugge^tion
your refuge.
God
of Jacob
is
Be
God He
fail
it is
in the creed
is
that
He
is
to
wide door
is
into
field of possibilities.
" Great
thy
faith," the
woman whose
all
affectionate
of her child
"be
was,
it
And
to
"Thy faith hath made thee whole." not the fruit but The leaves of the tree
the
are
of
The Sun
Righteousness
is
whole world
[127]
iffaiti^
anti J^ealtl^
of
human need
and
the
Sun
sick
of Righteousness
is
His wings.
The
its
it
takes
among
peutic agencies
men
are
give
rely.
And
whole attitude we
is
dealing with
all
Him who
able to forall
our
diseases.
Thy
law
the divine
method
and
Thou
is
stumble.
keep him
in perfect
peace
whose mind
stayed on
struggle
is,
Thee
though storm
soul,
and tempest,
without, there
its
My peace
Let not
be afraid.
all
you
and
it
was a transcendent
let it
And
the peace of
God which
[128]
passeth
under-
i^ealtng
po'wn
of ^uggejJtton
reach
of
our
intellectual
perceptions,
shall
keep
it
meant "garrison" as
life
there
was an impregnable
of
made
strong
any assault
the peace
and mind
God
The
shall
will gradually
work marvelous changes in the general health " They that wait upon the Lord shall renew
their strength,"
"The Lord
shall
shall give
people they
go from
The Lord
all
is
the strength of
my
!
life,
of
whom,
can do
"I
things"
this
sounds
like
is
boasting
modesty and
it
His and
becomes
[129]
fatti^
anu
l^ealti^
in increased happi-
which
upon
health, for
If
like medicine.
ye
know
these
things,
do them,
translate
the
Happy
God
of
becomes
him a deep
up
with everlasting
spoken unto
you
last
surpassing joy
these
My
And
"Come
[130]
unto
Me
all all
ye
that
labor
ye
" and
you
rest."
"There remaineth
in
there-
fore"
not
away
some remote
hereafter
in the
"a
rest for
God";
it is
by that re-enforcein
ment
in
of strength
me down
which
and
any
life
and
is
given
profound
to dwell
comfort
in
" for
Thou
giveth
makest
me
safety."
He
you are
suffering
strain;
if
a great
if
cer-
as they ought, I
know by
[131]
experience,
my own
mtti
and that
ant) i$tait\i
if
of others, that
you
them
quietly, trustfully,
in
your whole
which
good
results all
Send your
thoughts aloft into this upper, purer air whenever they are freed for a few
moments from
and
many burdened men and women are in days, when we are living at too sharp a
you can
find help here.
I
it
pace,
who
find
to sleep; to
lie
meant
the
But
it
is
some
minutes after
my
am
and ready
It
down
infinite
and
sleep,
resting
upon the
arm
will
of
us dwell in
safety.
You
as helpless as
is
Mrs. Eddy
herself.
The
plungers
and speculators
quoted regu-
The
are using
it
intelligently as
one of
where ex-
as being useful.
And it is true beyond a peradventure that in many nervous, mental and functional disorders you can thus invest thought and desire
in the confident assurance of receiving
good
dividends.
[133]
{fattl^
ann l$taW^
germ
And
in
warding
it
the attack of
diseases
you
will find
of
favorable to health.
is
We
know
that
pneumonia
is
developed from
a bacillus of tuber-
and a
bacillus of diphtheria
and that
Some
to
if
man happens
is
it
all
up with
wards
in the
of the hospitals
day
of
in the week,
and
it is
them
you
will
keep yourself
tally,
may walk unhurt in The the midst of a multitude of microbes. seed of disease may come your way, but it
morally, you also
soil,
or
when
it it
falls
up,
destroy
it
before
it
has time to
[134]
this
the will,
up the recuperative
energies
and
them
the patient
goes to
it
mood
and with a
Get
outcome
and
anxiety.
if
probably
lies
within
oflF
Him who
you
loves you.
Make up
all
your
mind
seen
that
will lay
hold upon
for
expect
good health.
[135]
jfaitl^
ann
will,
i^ealtl^
You
can,
if
you
overcome your
self-
distrust,
your fear of
failure,
your sense of
in-
dis-
of
others,
some
unbelief
themselves
graves
about
never
happen.
You can do
all this
by the systematic,
of suggestion in
lines
power
inducing
more wholesome
of
thought
states of feeling.
Learn
depend
less
the within.
In
my
judgment we are
hidden there.
quarters.
We
many
Electricity
Noah
when he saw
we
of this
[136]
first
to really
We
of right thinking
and
upon
you
health,
set
sanity
and
character.
When
and hard
task of being
the
made whole, all the way up, all way down and all the way in, you have
and within you the propelling
behind you
mind and
He
too
is
He
too
and enter
into the
God
is
[137]
Cl^e
Cmmanuel ^oUmtnt
Ci^e
Emmanuel
HE
the
apostle
jttotement
of
old
believed
of
strongly
in
the
of
principle
labor.
division
He
the
physical
own
it
work
of
for
which
A man
will
be more useful
his hands, as a
few
with his
feet.
fulfill its
own
appropriate
office.
And
same
his
Spirit,
and that
the
in divers
common good
makes
own
con-
[141]
faitii
tribution
anD
line
l^ealtl^
of
his
is
along
the
particular
"To
one
given the
to another
word
of
wisdom by the
Spirit
and
same
Spirit."
This
atti-
my
personal
modern
religious life
known
as
"The Emmain
moveis
manuel Movement."
You
ment.
at the
who
now
of the
country.
He
the
Emmanuel Church on
Dr. Samuel
ciates.
McComb
became one
Dr.
ever
studied
Worcester
had
Wundt
Lehigh
it
Dr.
McComb
[142]
Ci^e
Emmanuel
jttotement
of
warm
sympathies and
the people
started
who came
They
a tuberculosis
people
who
how
to
fire
on porches or on the
of those
escapes, or
by the use
dow
end.
is
indoors, to
ments of the poor, something was accomplished for their help, in combating tuberculosis
of
the
lungs.
The
or
communicating
its
that
dread
crowded tenements
[143]
fatti^
and
men
f ealti^
at
Then
three
these good
Emmanuel Church
the
ago
started
"Emmanuel
first
lifts
Health
Class."
From
of
the
very
they
this
showed a sanity
method which
movement
faith cures
of
good
intentions
of the class
of those other
values
is
or
methods
treated
of
at
procedure.
No
patient
until
ever
there
Emmanuel
competent
Church
has been
that
there
is
no organic disease
demanding medical or
that the case
treated
is
surgical treatment,
and
by psychic methods.
taken up by the
these facts
the case
is
men
at the
Em-
manuel Church.
The
suggestion
is
given in a
room
at the
[U4]
Ci^e
Emmanuel jHotement
In
and evening
clinics,
public
which
is
in reality
a health class.
There
and a twenty-
hour for
social
intercourse.
In addition to
by Dr. Cabot
of Boston, Dr.
the
topics
discussed
Worry; Anger;
nia;
Insom-
What
What
of
immediate
interest
sort of
es-
maladies
which
this
movement has
pecially addressed
itself.
men do
not disdain
lost their
heads
line.
[145]
iJfatti^
ann i$tait^
can be attained more
If
the desired
result
easily
and more
surely
by the use
of
a drug
do not
remedy.
headache
is
found to be due
that an oculist
and a pair
of spectacles will
medicine or surgery
is
indicated,
men
trained in the
They
rightly
since
God
manot
He
will
found
valuable.
There
no more piety
in
undertaking to be
more
directly in
of the will of
is
God.
[146]
Ci^e
pointed
purpose.
Cmmanuel
on
high
jttotiement
that
from
for
beneficent
unselfish
men
at the
Em-
A
of
recently published
article
by Dr. Cabot
tailed
He
March
of one
November
in the
In
slightly
improved,
the
final
results
were unknown.
In
In other cases of
obsessions,
of
fixed
ideas,
various
and
hysteria
about
one fourth
benefit
the
this
patients
line
received
marked
from
of
treatment at
also
Emmanuel Church.
There was
in
and the
like.
Many
lifted
fatti^
into
life
and
l^ealti^
to take
up the old
were restrained
way
of living honorable
lives.
is
beautiful,
God
for
it.
It is
indeed
impossible, as
these
very
men have
its
eyes to
example of
its
great
as
When
to
the
the
for a full
crop of those queer cults which have been misleading large numbers of people in recent
years.
The
people want to
know what
help
[148]
Cl^e
there
is
Cmmamtel jHotement
The
rapid growth of
all
over though
some
of
a significant
life.
symptom
the imas
And
mense popularity
of
such books
Ralph
Waldo
Trine's
Infinite"
"Power through
of
Si-
lence" and Charles Brodie Patterson's "The all indicate the wide inWill to be Well,"
terest
in
and the
popular
insistence
upon
in that direction
and
The
that
it
Emmany
manuel Movement,
churches and
it
have an idea
many
of
up as a part
this
regular work.
branch of
Here
mtt^ anD
denominations there are
the
i^ealtl^
little
out-stations of
Emmanuel Movement.
I wish to ask
Now
be wise.
extension of the
I wish to inquire
be
this
effort.
do not
believe that
it
would be
my own
church
find myself
practice as
studies
an amateur
in medicine.
last
By my
twenty-
and through
suffering
my
an
effort as is the
bility.
McComb
are
exceptional
men and
[150]
Cl^e
(Emmanuel jHobement
now
movement
or the present measure
its
of confidence given to
endure in anything
like the
same degree
for
any
its
it
own
was
control.
If
people
went
to the theater
to see
some morality
witness
play like
"Everyman"
If
or
to
some
Play"
it
at
Oberammergau.
to
they traveled,
was
upon a pilgrimage
to the
Holy Sepulchre
to school
If the
children went
was
to
monk
or
a nun
cation
and gowns
sanction
took
its
anointing
and
coronation of
some
official
by the
were
church the
king was
anointed."
sick,
And
some
in like
official of
came
[151]
faiti^
and
J^ealtl^
prayed over them
oil,
known
of this regime in
own
day,
it
Do we want
work
to return to that or to
ure of
it.^
Do we want
work
for
do not believe
that
we do;
of
I believe
still
it
would be bad
community.
and worst
all
for the
we
is
it
by the untrained,
for
this
what
it
would mean,
in the
the
name
would
down
them
false
and
to
blind
life
them
to
in
do exactly what
Christian Science
in
is
devotees beyond
all possibility of
To
the
one
is
of moral instruction
and
of spiritual appeal,
word
of comfort, uplift
to another
and invigoration
is
of healing
by a difference
of operation but
by
is
some nervous
is
sufferer.
He
is
invading what
difficult
domain
of
of
medical
disease,
the
is
treatment
it
nervous
and he
enough
doing
to enable
him
Good
intentions
and ordinary
common
[153]
ifatti^
and
i^ealti^
whether
some
individual
is
suffering
from
is
an operation
imperative, or to indicate
how
that operation
in his senses
No man
his
would think
tions
sympathy with
the sufferer,
and
his
smattering of medical
in
using the
upon
his
And
in that delicate
and
diflficult
domain
of nervous
disease
sense,
mere good
joined
intentions
and common
of
with a
in
general knowledge
psychology,
insufficient.
are
like
manner
altogether
to
presume
of
to take
hands
par-
I believe in every
word written
in the pre-
is
the sick
room and
He
might
[154]
make
kind
of general treatment.
he
is
his
and
and
to
in
the
members
I
of
do
for
some
sufferer.
all this
am
do
when he goes
in
as a minister of religion
and not
in
the
practice of medicine.
one of
my
people in
many hours
my present
which
had
to
troubles.
But
any patient
hands of a
an hour, out
of the
physician
for
trained to
do a work
which
am
not trained.
I wish to stand as
any sense as a
substitute
for him.
is
To me
the
word
and
of spiritual
to
wisdom
given by
the Spirit
him
the gift of
healing by the
same
Spirit.
We will
faitift
and
l^ealti^
is
turned over
by
is
The
wise
physician
who
He learns more may come the development of new symptoms. The diagnosis of a month ago may not be a proper diagnosis
his diagnosis as time goes on.
to-day.
Who
is
when
one
the case
is
no longer
in the
hands
of
diagnosis
Suppose
is
Shall
we
in
and
suggestion,
neglect
those
physical
factors
which enter
of these disorders
sage,
not.''
such matters as
electricity,
is
mas-
baths,
If
douches,
and what
we
minister himself
lines, as well as
[156]
Ci^e
cBmmanuel jHotement
man
in
instead of a trained
may be
used in such
sympathy
He
are
many
physicians
studying
practice
of a
superficial
me
of
questionable good."
I also agree heartily with Professor
Miinthis
sterberg
of
Emmanuel Movement,
to the
meaning
of life
of pain
upon
pain or no pain.
are wise
Dr. Worcester
they
and Dr.
McComb
men and
may
be able to keep
but the
[167]
jfatt)^
anu
l^ealtl^
all
thousands of
try
little
ministers
who
as thousands of
Parkhurst in
New York
to
attempt
work
these
and devoted
ministers entering
keep
men
when
say,
so
!
church
many men are turning away from the What a magnificent chance to bring
fill
This
is
would,
generally adopted,
fill
least,
probably to overflowing.
ter
if
to
man
he would give a
silver dollar to
every person
Sunday evening,
It
would
fill
the pews.
would
fill
them
to overflowing as long as
he might be
[158]
Cl^e
Cmmanuel J^obement
it
able to keep
But
?
of
religion
meanwhile
a character-forming agency
a crowd and
silver
He would have
many needy
dollars
uplift
spiritual
If there is
it
one place on
possi-
bility of
fort
in the
Health
is
important, but
health
terests.
is
subordinate to other
question
is
more
vital in-
The great
feels well
not as to whether
man
The main
question
is
not as
to whether he
may
man he
moral opportunity.
"What
[159]
shall I
eat?" and
it
"What
shall I
drink?" and
"How
will
agree
faiti^
with
auD
l$talt\)
all
me
after I
neces-
The
Is
it
question
is,
Am
worth feeding?
of
my
type?
The
The
old
who
kindly
and useful
rendered
by the
for the
Emin
manuel Movement
stands
of
of the parish
were
than he
is
com-
Cl^e
Cmmanuel jHotement
to
monly believed
cine,
and suppose
that he
should enter
in
competition with
of
disease,
the
physician
the
treatment
of
certain
particular
kinds
nervous disease,
see
we will
do not
how he would
in any-
inefiFective.
only takes a
it
moment
to write a prescription
and But
melancholy, to learn
all
all
cover
the
and
what
is
difficult
work
of
it
may be
is
of
weeks and of
months.
No man who
do
striving to
make himspiritual
and
leadership can
[161]
^aitt)
and
i^ealti^
in addition
to his reg-
to say nothing
special-
of the ability, to
ist
to ren-
To
one
is
wisdom
out helpfully;
to exercise
them
usefully
holy Spirit.
More than
wisdom
troubles.
and treatment
of nervous
Some
sympathy
sufferers
of such a service.
Other nervous
who would
it
tracted
by
same
service.
A very
and a
little little
strychnia
is
useful
will
as a nerve tonic,
more strychnia
life.
and destroy
Ci^e
Emmanuel pioUmmt
lie
down and
lapse
strychnia or
sympathy
in wholesale fashion to
crowd
of patients.
The
and cure
in
who might be
thus
brought together.
nerve specialist
classes,
is
who
and
wholesale method.
It
a well
are
known
fact that
when medical
students
the
symptoms
of
their minds.
These
iJfaitift
ann
J^ealti^
vigorous young
men;
many
cases
week
nervous
gested to
troubles.
sug-
ever
known about before, and in many cases would go away to reproduce in their own nervous experience
thenia.
It
all
manner
of hysteria
and neuras-
to
single
suggestion,
fully
con-
and upon
work.
This
is
precisely
They have
built
human
suffering
upon one
agent,
surgery,
electricity,
baths,
exercise,
which
God
To
thus build a
new form
of church life
upon a
[164]
Cl^e
single
mmanuel jHotement
agency does not seem wise
remedial
may be
conscien-
physician by having
the case at
cases where
suggestion
is
The
represents a bewil-
And
any
sort of nervous
trouble
it
may be
be
The most
friendly relations
realize
by attending
to his
own
specialty.
The
spiritual
ministry,
nerves,
and
the will,
is
of great value
And
[166]
fatti^
anD
J^eaitl^
of the
way
for a
more complete
dividual
life
"Seek
the
kingdom
of
God
can safely
rest."
And
is
for the
it
life,
but be-
command-
body
is
fect realization of
them can be
best attained
where there
for mental
is
and
advance."
fully in-
structed in the medical schools in the principles of psychology as well as in the facts of
physiology.
By
that thorough
will
be made
lines,
and
more
inclined to in-
[166]
Cl^e
Cmmanuel ^oumtnt
ministers
of
religion
Let
the
forsake
to
let
any
be-
secondary ambitions
they
may have
in medicine;
them
be more
live in
fully
competent
in aiding the
people "to
the vision
and
service of the
community
great
will
consummation
all
and
in character
all
have healed
our diseases.
[167]
Ci^e
(Bomi
of (I50DD ^^taltt)
VI
l^ealtlft'
leaves
the
tree
were for
The
fruit,
leaves,
rather than
in his
the
became
mind the
curing of disease.
The
which
is
incidental,
a kind
by-product.
to
all
The main
fruit ;
it
was
"
produce
of fruit"
fruit as that
fruit
Now
" the
of the Spirit,"
he
says,
peace,
fulness,
patience,
gentleness,
goodness,
mildness and
self-control."
These
the
is
useful moral
Spirit;
qualities are
the fruits of
intended
human
experience.
[171]
mt^
But
incidental to
and
l$talt\^
in
its
a further ministry to
of the tree are for
good health
cause in
all
who make
physi-
They
talk about
it,
it,
it,
they
write about
incessantly.
In their published
statements they deny the very existence of disease, but with a curious inconsistency they at
In doing
this
they
narrow down
When
the
day
of
judgment comes
of
it is
to
be feared that
many
them
will
and
unselfish
service
in
their
zeal
to
"demonto
To do
this
is
un-
[172]
is
incidental
and make
central.
We
shall part
company with
these physical
The
great
not whether a
man
is
has a
good
he
is
liver
These groups
of religious people
who make
show
sort
would be
form
of useful service,
influences
cities
ued forms of endeavor, about providing wellrounded Christian men and women thoroughly
[173]
faiti^
much
anD
i^ealtl^
of certain
The
employ
seems
little
or
no
efficacy in
was Dr.
S.
of
who
said of
"There
is
no
scientific
record
by any form
mind."
In view of
would surely be
of the untaught
and
generally
either
if
Ci^e
where
(I5oj2ipel
of
(13oot>
J^ealtl^
scientific research
may
what
But bearing
is
mind
central
and what
incidental to the
it
main
is
in order to
ask what
physical health.
The Church
on the
of Jesus Christ
its its
chief busi-
main puris
to pro-
and
We
fright-
this
phase of re-
We
had
better
intelligence
and
love.
We
tent
many
the per-
formance
main
had been
to a greater
We
ought
who come
the total
has seemed to
many
[175]
iffaitl^
ann
i^ealti^
was a widethe
much on
its
Westfor
ward the
velopment.
star
of
empire took
way
centuries, seeking
new
as
de-
Now,
some
ward the
star of
empire takes
way."
There
and a quick-
Men and
this dis-
to cultivate, to honor,
is
which
within,
and
position
shows
itself
in
many
ways.
The
kingdoms
truly
kingdoms
rebellious,
of the Spirit of
Christ, rate
no longer
no longer sepa-
And
it is
the belief of
many
thoughtful people
that the
main hope
not so
much
in the
[176]
Cl^e (^o^ptl of
CBiooD i^ealti^
when
it
upon the
as in so
strengthening
the
inner
life
that
increased
Here
tains,
life
!
is
own
inner
always with
all
your
vital
and
upon which we
and a wisely
you
in pos-
be utilized by
intelligent faith
directed will in a
way
of
and
indifference.
You
can,
you
will,
dig
that which
will
for those
you love
priceless dividends
Let
me
stands declared in
[177]
faitt)
Holy Scripture.
It
anu
is
l^ealti^
first
imperative
of all
man
so
is
good or
ill
in physical conditions.
Right
thoughts
make
for
wholesome imposes a
is
much more
diflficult
right
bottle.
The
cry,
higher levels of
human
eflBciency
are never
But the
is
Good
rapidly
becoming a spent
health
of
and training
by
now
And
this
mode
[178]
i^ealtlft
and permanently
culture
life in
eflSicacious
Many
the day
when
these trees of
common
peowill
improved health.
Strive to
reach the
say,
up and
"Thy
are
thoughts are
my
thoughts, and
Thy ways
be
my
ways,
will
in line of
all
the harassing
marches
inadequacy.
we cannot shoo
or by
away by a wave
of the
hand
some
The
no
people
who
[1791
faiti^
reality are
and
flighty.
J^ealti^
Sickness and pain,
simply
disease
be
met and
quered.
may
in
be, con-
The
vital
question
is
what mood
we can best approach them when they come. I know of none better than the high mood of the singer who sang in olden time, "I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." With all
the practical
wisdom he
;
man shape
in
means
to ends
let
him
all
him know
that
it
will
measurably
it
in those
life.
thought
known
by de-
them over
lips
them
is felt^
in
your being.
"I
will fear
no
evil,
l-
for
Thou
is
art with
me."
'
confidence shall be
of hosts
my
strength."
Lord
is
God
all
of
Jacob
my
he
life
refuge."
healeth
all
"He my
my
iniquities;
he redeemeth
youth
my
he
satisfieth
my mouth
is
with
like
things, so that
my
renewed
Begin the day with these promyour ears, singing through the
secret
added strength
your heart
When you
it
and the
sleep,
do
mood and
yielding
their
wholesome,
restful
hours of sleep
I cannot
tell
you
all it
to
do
just this,
but I could
you much.
My
report
would be
bom
of long experience
[181]
fait^ anD
in
J^ealtl^
a busy, strenuous
life
where
all
the aids,
when
once brought into commission they have vindicated the high claims I here advance on
their behalf.
trustful
The
and
held,
works
its
own
marvels.
led to say,
"We
never saw
it
on
this fashion."
The
verifiable results of
health,
delicate
at
life
first,
tasks.
This
is
said;
he
all
was aware n
would not be
waters;
he might be
many
he would
filled
with
and
unto
" According
to
your faith be
scripture
is
it
you."
The language
of
almost
human
I will
receptivity.
fill
"
Open
is
mouth wide,
herewith,
and
it"; there
no lack of material
"Prove
me now
and
I will not
of
room enough
to receive
is
"Stand up
will
high,"
you
your
not
bump
it
your head
According to
faith,
your capacity, be
There
is
nothing
it;
men do become
in
formal
creeds,
but shows
itself
in
the
life.
your anticipation
[183]
mt^
ing for
it
ann
i^eaiti^
is,
!
and accord-
unto you
The
catch
fail
;
people
all
who
The
people
who
fears
that
much
them.
but
is
I jfidence
On
the
intelligent
physician,
of
the
like
steel
armor against
According to
is
business.
is
vastly different.
same
familiar
in
his
in
his
heart,
"I
will
no
evil,
for
Thou
art
[184]
me
I will fear
no
evil, for
Thou
art with
I do not say it would enable him to me!" lie down with rattlesnakes or to drink water out of a malarial swamp unhurt, but it would
jadd to
cases
good health,
in
some
thirty,
some
sixty,
and
in
some a
hundred
fold.
look for the best, hope for the best, strive for
,
it
unto
you!
I
it
will
be advantageous
uncompro-
mising attitude of
great is thy faith!
be
your
it
will;
"O
woman,
wilt!"
was
adies
aflflicted
epilepsy we
It
now
which often
of that day,
hour.
give
was
[185]
f aiti^
child
anU
i^ealti^
hostile,
outsider, a Canaanite,
"Thou
She was
The
Then
am
sent to
Still
she
me."
give
to
the dogs."
And
the
woman
re-
plied, in effect,
crumbs which
give
from
me
Her
deter-
mination leaped
distance,
all
And
Jesus said to
!
"
woman,
in
great
is
thy faith
be
it
determination
won
Ci^e
If
dD^OjSpel
will
of (13ooD l^ealt^
you
made
right with
in
God
you
know, and
health,"
resolutely, trust-
work wonders.
who have
stopped think-
who
way
indicated,
is
"Let
It is
will.
there be health,"
and there
at
last
health
even as they
When
fine,
people
fix their
the purpose of
God
for them,
!
and
steadily.
We
will
we
will
we
will
they
come
loves us.
"Phy-
[187]
jfait]^
anb
some
i^ealtl^
matter and I
feel
right to speak.
in
that
by Ian Maclaren,
healthy as
oflFensively
Many
of
my
struggle.
I learned better
how
I
this
to fight.
I gained
began to practice a
different formation,
victories.
It is
first
we
If I
could recall
all
who were
a
all
I could write
the
symptoms
happy
in order
it.
and rehearsing
all
the un-
results of
upon
it
was not
beneficial to those
it
who made
is
is
some member
a
definite
ills
with
end
about them at
But with
all
my
the discussions to
which I have'
grippe myself;
I
listened, I
and
nothing of magic in
to
Some
honest attention
as the
ability to
confidence and
have
been
safeguard
me
from
Insist
any inroad
up with
it;
carry
it
carry your
you,
it
own face and hands about with and somehow you are apt to find that
unto you even as you
all
is
will
With
faith in
this,
cherish a personal
and
vital
God
as the
!
of
all
our
lives
"
Have
faith in
God," Jesus
[189]
mtf^ and
sent
l^ealti^
and although
He
them
confidence
which
He had
established
them an abiding
is
a hospital
The
building
is
it is
in
letters of
"Have
of
Faith in God."
sufferers,
a Christian hospital, as
Hundreds
assisted
friends,
have
We may
many an
anxious
Hundreds
cured as
human
divine.
As they walk
perhaps they
in health regained,
[190]
l^ealtl^
deeply grateful to
faith in
His chosen servants for their recovery. "Have God " they are good words to have
;
of one's
They
point ever
We
same time
that
soul
it
from
sin.
Even
if
we
tried
high.
tain fanatics,
feel that
if
many
were
es-
from
using
any material
remedies.
This
is
is
The Almighty
some materia!
for
also using
Those narrow-minded
[191]
faitl^ anti
f ealti^
God
is
another
we
That
there
is
is
no record that
He
ever did.
There
no record that
many forms
science.
in-
now become
sist
familiar through
foolish
modern
But he would be a
of a high building or
upon doing
errands
which
now
serve
our
needs.
men have
than
it
certain result
more
easily
could be accomplished
all)
indeed,
it
could be accomplished at
by purely mental
foolish
and
spiritual forces.
He would be a
who
man
indeed
who would
And
declaim so loudly
all
use soap.
Soap
is
a drug; [192]
it
is
sold at the
Cl^e
d^ojKJpel
its
of c0ooD i^ealti^
is
drugstores;
action
chemical.
K a person
but
it
and
we
call soap.
The
very people
who become
soap without
how
making themselves by
their inconsistency.
Have
faith, then, in
God, with no
fear what-r
Him by employing all those useful aids which He has created and appointed for our benefit
Have
faith in
to yourself all
The
sical
than
many
people
dream.
and
verifiable
knowledge
are
[193]
But
first,
first
astrology was
manner
of
men
in
leading to
all
fanciful
science which
now maps
planets take,
stars
weighs their
Chemistry was
with
its
alchemy
way
was
first
wild
work
all
kinds of magic.
of that exact
pointed the
for the
coming
under obligation to
results in
it,
as
it
manufacture and
community.
In similar fashion those movements called
"Christian Science," or
"New
Thought," are
modern
life,
[194]
Cl^e
tion
(iaoj3pel
of (0ODti i^ealti^
will presently
We
are
We
make
true,
in the beginwill
and never
be
We
chafiF
in the
of patient,
it
sympathetic
where
some
cases
thirty, in
some
and
in
some a hundred
and maintenance
no wise advance
of sound health,
we
all
shall in
make-
We
have
on cush-
persistent at-
common
is
sense
true, utter
"There
[195]
fai'tl^
is is
anD
i^ealtl^
All
God and
It is the
all is
good.
just lovely,
and we are
matter.
If there is
upon
to give
any
of
homes, hospitals,
charities.
relief
But
it is
untrue
it is
which
is
indifferent
to
Sin
is
a fact;
Crime
feet,
is
a fact;
all
men who
but in
animals,
perpetrate
their
crimes
hood.
Poverty
is
un-
yielding fact,
of
showing
enemy
well-
the
bodily,
intellectual
and moral
its
being of those
who
suffer
under
heel.
We
[196]
Ci^e (Bo^ptl of
cannot
-scare
it
(t^DoD
big,
l^ealtl^
away with
silly
unmeaning
it
words, or by any
exist.
pretense that
does not
in-
It
to the
homes
of those
We
by vague
it.
no
reality to
There must be a
fearless facing
of the
With
and abiding
gether, shake
state of health.
Mix them
freely
!
to-
them
well, use
them
You
nothing in them
[197]
mtt^ anD
which
will
l^ealti^
much
of
them
They
will
do you good
They
ills
are
not
offered,
wholesome though
all
the
human
flesh.
all
We
right
suffering,
and
death.
One whose
and
faith in
God
we can
expect to
suffered.
"He
in
any enthusiast
He
alto-
When
wicked
men
when they
suffered
and
-"^
In like manner,
cruel
any one
is
overtaken by
accident,
or
loaded
may
[198]
Ci^e (^o^ptl of
be he
will incur
(1500D J^ealtl^
illness.
some painful
And
the
when we
and
with the
we
amount
of sickness
it
is
inevitable.
Reduce
the volume of
ing
all
at
some
And
The
is
best in us sometimes
vitality.
to start
them
in life
him
into
an
amount
down.
of
And many
her
own
And
many
another, in
[199]
^fatti^
and
l^ealtl^
who
are dear,
so
unreservedly to them as to
lower
own
life forces.
Do
our best,
it still
travails in physical
career.
There are
ing
If
offsets
over
against
all
and a heart
to
something of great
It
illness.
bill,
it
did not
you go
until
it
It
brought
and enrichment
larged
of being
" Thou
hast en-
in distress."
to lie
upon a bed
of
pain for
or to spend tiresome
lie
weeks
or to
awake through
strike the
if
lonely nights
denied, he may,
transmute
heart.
higher qualities
to the point
mind and
He may come
[200]
army
he
may
an added tenderness
he
of those
who
may
new
trial;
he
of the
world.
When we
hour
do
it,
we may begin
grow
cal-
brass impregnable.
We may
lous
and
which a
down
If
for
month
any man's
[201]
fait)^
heart
this
it
anD
l^ealti^
tight
is
becoming small,
and hard by
may
dant
life
Whether
one way;
this
is
way
or not,
it
is
many a
man comes
bit
When
he
looks down into his own heart he says with profound gratitude, " The Lord enlarged me when
I
was
in distress."
which
a certain high
growth, I
may perform
in
moral
it is
insist that
not only the part of expediency but morally imperative for every one to
do
all
that
lies in his
power
to be well, steadily
and joyously
well.
It is part of
[202]
and
spiritual,
shall
be up
leaves
signifi-
it
grew and
offering
its
gracious
and
center of a city
high.
The
tree
only to be found in
to
It
in the
middle of the
street,
to
make
they
formulas of speech, which no one quite understands, in order to avail themselves of this
[203]
fatti^
help.
anD
f ealtl^
Ufe,
common
we
very
If
any one
and use
them habitually
will
right.
spirit
of holy love
If
and
will
any man,
he
will in that
which
will give
him
life
everlasting.
[204]
VII
HE New
after the
speak about
manner
recognizes the
fact
that
the souls
we know anything
men.
stroy
"The Son
men's
of
Man
is
come not
to de-
lives,
in
their entirety.
"The Son
Man
is
come
to
is
lost"
health,
to
out of the
life
be
restored.
The
terms
expressed
as
purpose
habitually
in
such
these:
"I
pray
God
that
your
whole
spirit, soul
therefore,
mtf^ and
a living"
lies
fealti^
not
a dying or a diseased,
it
if
it
"a
in
living
sacrifice,
is
And
one of
we
find the
good wishes
in this cordial
and
inclusive fashion
" I wish
above
all
things
that
and be
in health,
He
desired
that
material
and physical
Now,
it
is
leader and exponent of this unfolding Christian civilization, to face this larger responsibility, this
wider opportunity.
In these days
society
is
demanding a
fuller
and more
vital
one which
The
fixed
it
souls of
men
vicious
habit
it
may be
mental,
certain
ideas,
fears,
obsessions, despondencies;
may
makes
may be
moral, a
which the
will
the
And
souls of
men
is
for
may be
make some
widespread appeal.
In the preceding chapters I have had occasion to speak of several phases of this popular
interest
and
this
insistent
demand.
I have
spoken
sometimes
in
hearty
approval
and
sometimes
in radical,
though I
In
this last
chapter
atti-
That
it
pathy
goes
without
saying;
the
Christian
that
church or the
high quality
tian.
is
Christian
man
lacking
But
what should
the church
do
community ?
[209]
iJfaiti^
It
anD 1$talt^
We
live in
opinion.
sion to
some extent
in law, but
still
more
in
the habits
Where
and
conscientious
for good.
it
body
in
of opinion
It
our land.
speaks from
it
pulpits
its
on
lays
message
books
through
before
its
papers,
eyes
its
magazines
thoughtful
and
the
of
people every
it
week; and in
various schools
utters its
word
to the
Now
if its
to
do not simply
in
is
directly en-
making
of the
[210]
conditions
of
employment
in
factories
and
which
will
be for their
to
a word,
the
if
more
interests
which belong
that
it
well-being,
then
you
can see
may
sustain a
health.
most helpful
Take
In
the city of
it
was had
a certain quarter
the fact
When
was due
to unsanitary
And
were induced
demolish those
As a
result of that
district
[211]
fam
It
is
anti J^ealtl^
upon
all
its
members
terrible
was a
Church,
New
in
owned, main-
which human
live.
beings
That
land,
in
the
it
was
to
assailed in
ought
have been
assailed.
a terrible scandal
when
which
Christian
people
worshiping
God
in
own and
rent houses
unsanitary.
Murder
is
it
man
with an axe in
five
minutes or
five
years.
kill,"
The One who said, "Thou shalt not the One who knows the secret methods
lives,
of all
is
hostile to the
of another, as murderous.
church
by
[212]
aiding in this
in all
movement
our
cities.
Take
that
now
being
waged against
White
Read
the reports of
if
League
it
you would
know what a
alone die from
scourge
has become.
in the
One
United States
If the present
every year.
death rate
is
them
from
tuberculosis.
is
The germ
sunlight
in the
killed
by
and
open
but
months
in
In a certain
fourteen
in
New York
many
but
it
takes a
more
terrible toll
ill-fed,
ill-housed poor.
itself
state
[213]
fattl^
boards
in of
and
in
J^ealti^
intelligence,
health
spreading
awakening
interest
and
in
stijffening
the
It is
it lies
stamp
it
out.
The church
itself
of
Christ
the
people
should show
a valiant
individual
The
but
the
aroused
community becomes
mighty
in its
Take
Sickness
among
the poor.
Where a woman
or a
child
is
and the
stifling
heat or the
distressing
damp
make
illness
more
It is
difficult.
book on
" Poverty."
He
much
time and so
[214]
much
New
York,
and
a
not as a scribe.
child lies burning
of the rich
nurses and
little
life
and
in
back
to health.
and
a hot and
restless
one.
must go
all.
to his
work
them
for
He
may be
all
day
And
wrung by anguish
carries
on her un-
nurses in
come
which
[215]
fatti^
make
for health.
and
It is
i^ealti^
We provide
;
police-
men
against crime
and disorder
it
would be equally
make
this
general pro-
needy
nurse on
its
of
men.
Take
schools
of the children
!
by wise inspection
city
in the public
In
my own
we have a
"
De-
who was
formerly
of Health.
He
published report,
dren
in
the
public
schools
were defective.
defective
Enlarged
tonsils,
adenoids,
nasal
[216]
and the
assimilation
of
food,
astigmatism
making
the
vision
imperfect
these
were
many
work.
When
there
when
was disobedience
mean a
it
wayward
girls;
disposition
entirely
for
public
sentiment
to
put
its
strong endorsement
upon
and
to
support
to
It is for
stretch
forth a
long,
loving
arm
in that
home where
these de-
every
child
bom
into
the
world
I have
named
[217]
iJfait]^
anb
lie
i^ealtl^
of usefulness
which
church in the
eflFective interest it
may show
in
and communal
which
make
for health.
said
from the
and do
all
not indifferent
That
august
for
command was
bearing
it
uttered quite as
much
the
in
promoting a
aspiration.
spirit of
And
the
touching sympathy,
unto
me
all
ye
a mighty
interest in the
And
[218]
One and
to follow the
Other cannot be
It
in-
ought to
way
it
has inspired
its
members
to enter
upon
these
commun-
even as thy
make
directly for
physical soundness.
ward on
New York
was fourteen
times as great as in a
Park.
There was,
of course, in the
Park
its
with
its
open spaces,
trees
air,
and
and
its
purer
was a
Every
means
city is
of health
and a means
of grace.
in
the crowded
God
[219]
mt^
of the
anD
J^ealti^
good health.
unchristian
It
is
narrow,
grudging
and
attitude
all
our
cities.
All
officials
who
are
way
in
the
work of extending
number
Future
and
girls.
up and
call
the results
The
fact
is
indeed
This
was
clearly
recognized
by
President
Roosevelt
when he appointed
Professor Irving
and
to
make a competent
report on
our national
thoughtful
vitality.
as he thinks of the
suggested.
In
the
six-
teenth century in
of
life
was
between
it
sixteen
and
eighteen
fifty.
years
now
is
The
life
when
hygienic
little
understood,
when
so
much
intelligent attention
was given
became
fifty
per thousand
now
from
it
is fifteen.
The
city of
Vienna
in
one
by wise
sanitation.
now
it
is
nineteen.
In
movements
in
ing of children
more
we
for
fifty
men and
fifty-three for
women
[221]
faitli
the least of
is
and
l^ealti^
life
all this,
twenty-three for
men and
twenty-four for
women.
India
In
is
death rate
it
is
forty-two.
Make
all
necessary
climate
in
still
allowance
for
the
difiFerence
in
Sweden and
in India,
up a magnificent
result in the
How
splendid are
all
these gains
What a
reavement where
women
natural
are being
widowed
and children
deaths
of
left
as orphans
by the untimely
their
providers.
And
as
an economist,
is
and clean
air
would
[222]
And
Dr.
suggestions
that
report,
we
avoidable waste in
human
is
life
reckoned in
terms of
its
"
we
pay
for the
Panama
double
army
the
and
navy,
all
our
merchant
marine,
oflf
deepen
left to
five
hundred millions of
the figures not of
dollars."
And
these are
some Fourth
of July orator
economist
with
health
I
the
and
municipal
boards
of
in
we should undertake
12231
by the avoidance
of bereavement
and by the
many
eyes
we should
in avoiding
esti-
results
that
struggle
to
unnecessary deaths,
of these
to
send
matics
sion
who understands
be able to read
fourth
dimen-
of notation
in order to
human
well being.
also help
to prevent the
can
insist that
men
not be
or
doomed
to
work
in unsanitary
fearless
mines
factories;
competent and
all
that.
It
can
day
of
at the
detriIt
ment
lives.
can
ally itself
in the
week with
ments which have to do with physical wellbeing as well as with intelligence and good
morals.
There
"a
oiight to
be
the
in
our Christian
called
civilization
gate
of
Temple
sentiment
Beautiful "
Christian
where
Christian
and
man
It
him on
his feet.
of those
who
show
and
leap-
God,"
if
more
active in
interest in this
present, visible
and everyday
also,
life
of the people.
in
believe,
ways
would take
of
a very wise
man
due
of
to determine
how much
rapid
increase
nen'ous
disorders.
The
life
mad
of
desire
for
change,
[225]
faitli
killing
anD
i^ealti^
for
of self-control, through
all
up
These
turn
react
upon
all
the vital
and elimination
health.
in
We
seen
morbid desire
simulation
of
certain
diseases
where
the
We
have
neurasthenia,
the
tendency to suicide
Look
when they
observing
them
In
what
discouraging
kindliness
and hopefulness
[226]
which ought
in its
to clothe the
human
face, except
Now
cent opportunity.
hand or undertook
it
to hold
any
sort of clinic,
could
still
and
in
It
is
for the
may
and that
It is for
church
of the spirit
and
or disease.
meaning
and the
it
is all
work
of the devil or
blind result of
some mechanism
which we
They
will
be brought
[227]
mtt^ and
oflBce in
l^calti^
and a
finer
human
experience.
steadily
lift
which
all
the chronic
is
due
to
an intensely
due to
insist
upon continuing
troubles
and
their disappointments,
when
the
made
ill
by thus
The
necessity
which comes
selves to
again on unwonted
charged,
health;
met and
and
dis-
becomes a means
refused,
it
of grace
ill.
of
is
works untold
It
make
all
that plain
and
to
aid
in
which has
its
will
take up
load
front, intent
upon
[228]
M^ta^t
cut,
to
health, either
bottle or
is
of
by purchased manipulation;
there
common
sense
All
tells
him
all
the while
cults
is
is
incredible.
those
curious
there
It
to
the
contrary
notwithstanding,
no such
has to be worked
is
done
it is
intelligently
and
systematically,
where
done
fact that
God
is
plish
church to make
to teach the
of their
own
truest as-
name and by
God who
loves them.
The
229
can be made an
spiritual
be"
the
presence
of
energy
from within
from without.
It
is
a well-known fact
and
ening, effect
upon the
Every one
religious service.
It
its
power
to
in
moral
and
in
spiritual
uplift,
steadily
atti-
make
for health.
you
will
ship
and
aspiration, reflection
and meditation,
you
will
to nervous poise
and
stability,
under-
stand
how
is
may be
made.
that
It is
God
immanent as
[230]
immanent
in all these
forms of
life;
and that
He
is
finding a growing
advance.
Josiah
fection
Royce
Harvard,
expressing
"God
wins perin
through
himself
the
its
finite life
very finitude.
God means
to express himself
by winning
evil, to
us,
and
is
there-
due
to
the triumph of
is
God
himself."
And
all
this
And by
ally
by personal appropriation, we
victories.
Life, therefore,
is
a
it
And
and
to
tion
and
reflection,
lifted into
[231]
mt^
efficiency
anD
J^ealtl^
life
of
that
more abundant
the
Master came
It
to bestow.
it
was not
our
a learned theologian
long ago,
religious
fretful
"The
faith.
is
The
tossing billows
on the
places undisturbed.
And
to
the
hourly vicissitudes
of
his
personal
you
that
steadiness,
for health
accomplish
it,
James, by a personal,
religious
faith,
infinite
truths,
these
own by
daily utilization.
vigor, that
combined ministry,
to
[232]
And
if
lies
do
just that,
it
trust-
It is
gospel.
At
at prayer,
level
of
and
felt
companionships.
Down
at
disciples
were trying to
them by an agonized
curing
relief.
hope of
se-
And
Then
tain
Jesus
side of the
moun-
efforts to theirs,
and the
child
was
restored.
"Why
him out?"
It
faftl^
anD l^taW^
unbelief
which
to the
God
down
of strongholds.
may
fallen too much into way of living apart from the Master, and much in the attitude of unbelief touching
it
could render to
human
a more
need.
If this is in
any measure
to Christ in
ability, in
complete consecration of
recognition
of
a fuller
of
the
gracious
content
His
may
glorious
vigor, that
when
the lame
man
Temple
feet,
called Beautiful"
was
set
upon
his
when the ills of many were relieved, and when all the burdened people heard, each in his own tongue, the message of Eternal Life.
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