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For The Mind-Cure and Science of Life.
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DR. W. F. EVANS.
T h e P r a y e r o f F a it h t h a t Sa v e s t h e
Sic k , o r t h e H e a l in g P ow er
S pir it u a l T r u t h .
I t is a principle taught in the spiritual
philosophy of all ages and countries, that
prayer is the most intense form of the
action or influence of one m ind upon an
other. As the w ill is! the prim al force in
man, and is but the intensifying of desire,
the highest effort of will, naturally takes
the form of silent invocation. It spon
taneously seeks to gain a higher level, a
m ightier strength to lean upon, and union
with a Life th at can lift us from our own,
and rescue us from the weakness of an
isolated individuality.! I t is confirmed
and perfected by faith, which is, as both
P lato and Jesus teach, a spiritual cause,
and. the will united with faith goes forth
more in the form of affirm ation than th at
of supplication. As Jesus—who is the
way, and the truth and the life—affirms
th at whatsoever we ask the F ather in his
name, or th at of the Christ, the F ather
will give us, and as our own spirit is the
C hrist ill us, and is one w ith him, we use
the following formula, as expressing the
highest activity of the will, f a i t h and
im agination.
SC IE N C E OF LIE"IE.
d a nce o f p e a ce a nd tr u t h . "
DECEMB i l l, 1884. No. 3.
INVOCATION.
In th at mysterious and sovereign name,
th a t is above every name, and which
signifies and represents the only saving
principle in the universe, and before which
every knee hows in heaven, and on the
earth, and under the earth, and from the
of summit of our triune nature and the
spiritual crest of our own being, we. ap
proach in thought the universal presence
of the Father, the One and Only Life and
Supreme Reality. In Thy light we recog
nize the truth that our spirit is a manifes
tation and personal lim itation of the grand
unity of Spirit, and in its essence is
divine, and included in the being of Ilim
who is the Crown of all m anifested exis
tence, and the head of all principality and
power, and the supreme source of all sav
ing and healing influence. In our inmost
and true existence and real self, we are
not, and cannot he diseased, for we are
one with Thee. Thou w ilt cause the
.light and power of this great truth to
penetrate the darkness of our souls, and
disperse the errors, and illusions, and
false opinions, and deceptive appearances
of our irrational and sensuous mind, the
only seat of evil, and Thou w ilt enable us
to see and fe d , that as immortal and
divine spirits we are well and happy, and
in this region of our being we share the
deep tranquility of the Christ, and thine
own eternal calm. Thou art speaking
anew'to us and in us the creative word,
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tfhe Mill small Aoice, “ L e t there l>e light,”
and the darkness aipU b lin d n e ss of the
soul and of sense are becom ing pierced
with the radiance of a celestial day; and
thou art reducing the chaos of our low er
s o n l/to the divine order of the spirit.
W e are not projecting our voiceless lan
guage ui no...... t, ■‘" “B111 1111,0 vacancy
hut.°into thy Presence, from which wc
cannot escape, and the ineffable lig h t oi
thy Life is opening and dem olishing the
th ick wall of solid darkness w hich has
hitherto enclosed us. From this higher
position and diviner altitu d e of thought,
to which thine abounding grace has raised
us, we perceive th a t our tru e being has
not been invaded by disease or any dis
comfort, b u t as included in the C hrist,
the Universal Spirit, is secure from all
evil and free from all sin. In the lig h t of
the inner W o rd in us, w hich is th e foun
tain of all spiritual intelligence, we per
ceive th at our salvation in sp irit, and in
Christ, is n o t to be view ed as an event
w hich is to transpire in a d istan t or near
future, b u t is to be apprehended and ap
propriated by fa ith as a fact existing in
th e present, and an etern al reality. W ith
th e bum ble boldness w hich th is divine
tru th gives us, we view ourselves th ere
fore as now well, and already saved in
C hrist, who is in the bosom of the F a th e r
a ad we w ith him and in him are sheltered
in the secret place of th e M ost High, and
here under the shadow of th e A lm ighty,
sickness an d sorrow, pain and death* and
the disturbing fear of them can never
reach us. Thou w ilt cause us to feel
more and more the divine redeem ing
power and healing efficacy of th is eternal
tru th , an d thou a rt translating this true
idea of man, and.our high calling of God
in C hrist Jesus, into a bodily expression
in us, th a t we may be. saved to the u tter
most, and from the center to the m aterial
circum ference of our existence.
Awaken in us all the slum bering life of
the spirit. R end from our inner eye more
fully th e veil of illusion; remove from
This- m a t e ria l w a s co p ie d
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M Su b je c t
our mental vision the bandage of
and free us from the dom inion of tlie j uj|
mass of the body and the limitations a]1(j
thraldom of our m aterial being. Hj.. ;lk
every link in the fetters of our soul; renl0V(j
the bars from the doors of our p i \ OIi;
open wide the w indows of our soul to t ]ie
radiance of the spiritual sun, and the jnie
light of life will penetrate and illumi(],lte
the gloom of our disordered condgj0]1
’I'kjs sublime tru th ,—th at as a
created into thine im age,and in d isso l^jy
included in thine own being, we are c>,;-
em pt from -disease and all evil,—is a ,.ay
in us of thine own Intelligence, and i^
separable from thine Infinite Mind, and
as such partakes of thine own tranc.u ;j
and saving om nipotence. To this fj\-ed
stake we would forever cling, how,,ver
assailed by doubt and fear, or tosseij py
storm and flood.
In the name of the C hrist, in whom a,'„l
through whom our life is hid in 1'hee,
the Universal F ather and only true Ih>j),gr
we affirm by faith., in opposition to b)i,uj
sense, that we are now freed from our
infirmity. By the light and sovereign
authority of the inner W ord, we dis0Wn
and renounce disease and sin as any part
of our im m ortal and real self, and before
the tribunal of the righteousness of fnith,
or divine rectitude of thought, we execute
judgm ent upon them , and separate them
from us in our conception, as som ething
external and foreign to our true being.
I t is done. As to all that which con
stitutes our perm anent and unalterable
personality, ire are not diseased, but are
now saved in Thee. And we commit thb
keeping of our souls unto Thee, the God
of peace, who canst save us wholly, and
preserve our spirit., and soul, and body as
a harmonious unity, unto the full revela
tio n ’of the lig h t and life of immortality.
“ Faithful is he who calletlyus, who also
will do it.” ‘ W e tru st henceforth thy
boundless wisdom, love and power, to
give thine own idea .of nlan a full ex-
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pression in us. In the name of the Christ.
C o pyri g ht La w s
 TIIE MIND-CUKE AND SCIENCE OF LIFE.
W hen we can grasp the meaning, and
measure and weigh the full im port of the
above formula of faith, and it becomes in
us a fixed mode of intelligent thought,
and we can repeat it, not as a succession
of empty words, but in the interior light
of their deep significance, we are put in
possession of the power of the inner W ord
and the Spirit through which Jesus healed
disease and cast out demons. Spiritual
thought can penetrate where words can
never reach, for thought is a more real
force than sound. It is an arrow that
never falls short of the mark, or misses its
aim. It is the same spirit of tru th which
brooded over the original -chaos, o f un-
partioled and unorganized immaterial sub
stance, and changed it into the cosmos, a
word which prim arily signifies order and
arrangem ent. I t is the same as the power
of the H ighest'(or the Divine Inm ost in
man,) th at overshadowed Mary. In our
patients and in every human being, there
is the latent germ, the spiritual ovum, the
dorm ant but still living idea of man in
perfect health and blessedness. Spiritual
thought, the light of true intelligence,
united with feeling, is the divine creative
W isdom -Principle and active potency
which can “brood over” (or incubate,
as the original word means,) This latent
idea in man and im pregnate it with a
conscious vitality. The repetition in
thought, or in a tacit verbal utterance, of
som ething like the above form of invoca
tion (or evocation) is one of the most
effectual ways of doing this. Its influence
will come upon the patient like the dew of
heaven (the old symbol of spiritual truth)
upon a w ithering flower. And prayer is
rescued from superstition and a shallow,
noisy enthusiasm, and made, as it once
was, a spiritual■ science. T he greatest
forces in the universe are silent. The
lig h t of the-sun falls in stillness upon the
earth, and lifts countless millions of plant
germs up towards the heavens, and slowly
but surely elevates the trees of the forest
into the embrace of the sky.
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The cure of mental and bodily maladies
by the influence (that is, as the word
signifies, the inflowing) of one mind upon
or into another, is no now thing in the
world. I t is not a new invention or dis
covery, but a rediscovery. It is a resur
rection into life of the dry bones of
prim itive C hristianity. It is based on
laws of mind as fixed and uniform in their
operation as any of the principles of
chemistry-—the naturally and essentially
diffusive tendency of our mental states,
and the absorptive and the receptive
nature of the soul of a patient in a passive
state, and actuated by a sincere desire of
recovery. U nder the influence of fear
and unbelief, or rather misbelief, all dis
eases are more or less both contagious
and infectious. U nder other and better
conditions, health of mind and body is
equally so, for the Supreme Goodness has
not in this respect given evil the advan
tage
o over us.
-^-W bat Is The Lamb?-^-
An earnest inquirer, a reader of our
journal, w rites under date of Nov. 18,
1 8 8 4 : —“ E ditor M i n d -C u k e —‘ W hat is
the Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world ? ’ W hat was the ‘ Garden of
Eden ?’ ”
The form er passage is found in Rev.
x i i i , 8. “ Lamb” is written with a capital
“ L,” and therefore the church interpreta-
of the term in this verse, is, th at it means
Jesus, and they claim th at in the Bible
this form of the word always applies to
Him, while the ordinary form, lamb, ap
plies to the young of the flock.
Before we give our explanation, we will
say: the term as written in this verse, and
many other places in the New Testam ent,
does not apply to Jesus alone as the liuman-
Divine man, born in Judea. He who in
terprets the Bible in its spiritual sense,
cannot claim th at it does.
In this verse, it does not refer to the cru-
 t h e m i n d -c u r e a nd s c ie n c e o f LIFE.
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T he Lamb, then, th a t has been slain, an
cifixion of Jesus. It says th at this “ Lamb
long as organic life has existed, and espe,
was “ slain from the foundation of the
w o rld ;” but Jesus was slain less than cially human life, m eans the good, tli^
nineteen hundred years ago. In Rev. v, 0 meek, raeeK, theLin* DD ivine n a tu re of self. Tin.
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“ and in the m idst of the elders stood a lamb-like, the dove-like sp irit, the Life^
Lamb, as it had been slain,” etc. No the Holy S p irit. F rom tim e immemorial,
this Lamb has been slain, and is slain to,
one should claim th at this refers to Jesus,
because it says th at this Lamb had “ seven day. T he lion th a t slays the Lamb, is tin.
horns and seven eyes, which are the seven evil, the carnal, the base or earthly part of
Spirits of God, sent forth into all the our nature, silencing and trium phing ove*
earth.” N or did Inspiration refer to the good, the D ivine p a r t of our nature.
Jesus in Rev. xix, 7. “ F or th e m arriage W henever w rong-doing is presented to u,\
of the Lamb is come, and his wife h ath in the form of a tem p tatio n , the Spirit,
made herself ready. The term “ Lam b ” the Divine, or God, in and of us, pleads,
in this place, does not mean Jesus, nor “ Do not yield to the wrong, cling to the.
does the term “ wife ” in th is connection rig h t,” but, as in the case of the drinking
mean a woman. As Jesus did n o t m arry man, the m urderer, or th e th ief; the carnal,
a wife, we see that He is not m eant by the the wicked, th e lion often prevails by do,
own way,
w ord “Lamb.” In neither of these passages ing the w rong—b y h av in g its
the Lamb in
does the word “ Lamb” apply to J esus. W e and in all such instances,
can cite various other places in the New slain. It is th e evil triu m p h in g over tlm
T estam ent, where the word is used in this good, or, in o ther w ords, it is satan, the
form, which shows th a t the. personality of beast, the dragon, or w hat is usually called
Jesu s cannot be m eant. the devil, or the serpent, prevailing in tin.
T he phrase “ foundation of the w orld,” garden of E den to-day, as in the beginning
does not refer to the universe, nor to our of the race. O f course, the Eden m eant
planet, the earth, but it simply means the innocence of hum an nature, which
from the beginning of hum an life. Only the first pair possessed as a s tate of purity,
the inhabitants of the earth are m eant, as before they partook of th e forbidden f ruit;
we see it in m any places in the Bible, which fru it was the flesh. T h at which
such as, “ L et all the earth keep silence passes for the “ fall of m an,” was no t only
before H im .” Ilab. n, 20. “A nd lie shall the prem ature physical union of the pair,
ju dge the w orld in righteousness.” Psalm hnt it was chiefly the intrigue, the deeep-
vxii, 8. “ And all the world may become Lon practiced by the m an, whose seduc-
g u ilty before God.” Rom. iu , 19. “ But ly e, subtle nature, was th e serpent that
also for th e sins of the whole world ” talked w ith the woman, an d beguiled her;
i Jo h n , n , 2. and furtherm ore, for charging the cause
N or does the phrase “ Hook o f L ife ” in of his disobedience upon the innocent one
th e verse upon which we are commenting whom he deceived. As th e result of this
signify a literal book. W hen the term ?s
subtilty and delusion, and the carnal
m et in Daniel and Revelations, it m ust be gratification of his selfish, animal nature,
understood in a spiritual sense in nearly a wicked offspring was born unto them, in
every case. T he “ Book of Life ” means
Gain, the m urderer.
life itself, the book Life, the Spirit, W hile, then, we have the “ T ree of Life”
the D ivine B eing, the Im m ortal Man, as
and the “ R iver of Life,” in the human
we cannot in reality, separate these enti
organism and nature, we also find therein
ties, for they are, as Jesus taught, one. W e
the garden of Eden, which man was to
believe in the use of the form D iv in e -
human. “ d re ss” and to “ keep.”
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tlae garden, is the conscience, the Divinity,
the God essence united w ith the human,
the m ortal in us all. Also, the “ Book of
L ife” being Life, or Im m ortal Man, Spirit,
Deity, we readily see that the Lamb is the
Life, or the D ivinity, which finds its
most perfect expression in the organic
human being. T hat Jesus possessed
this Lamb nature, and that the Christ
was the Life, the Spirit, or God, we read
ily affirm, but we should as plainly see
th at the Holy Spirit, the C hrist, or Life,
is the Life of each and all of us. B ut as
Love is the essential essence of Life, it is
in and through woman th a t we expect
most to see the Lamb prevail. Redem p
tion, not as theology blindly has it, from
early papacy, through the physical disso
lution of one, but redemption through
knowledge, as soon as we come fully into
the Life and understanding. W Oman is
coming rapidly to the development and
leadership of the race. Y ielding her
body, however, to the carnal desires of
sensuality for self, instead of for the D i
vine purpose, as M ary did when Jesus
was begotten, is death. Flam ing swords
of fierce vengeance have slain her, even
ostracism, or the sentence of death by so
ciety. Through the irretrievable loss of
her virtue, she, and she only, commits the
sin th at is never overlooked nor “ forgiv
en,” because she, acting for self, sins
against the Holy Spirit of God, or of her
Divine nature, the Lamb. As in Adam,
which means the ground, or the dust-man,
the mortal or earthy, all have died this
death through lust, or through the carnal
ity of the flesh, even so in Christ—which
means not the man Jesus, but the Holy
Spirit, the Life he had, and the Life we
have, which is God—“ shall all be made
alive.”
This day of reform, is the general judg
m ent day. The Lamb, or Christ, is now
judging the world, or the great whore,
“ which has made the nations of the earth
drunk with the wine of the wrath of her
fornication.” Of course this means the
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present system of creedisin which is slowly
being displaced by the will of God.
W om an’s day is here, and no longer
does she need to be the slave of man, nor
be subject to his desires, or carnal de
mands. The “ Lam b’s book ” is open, and
we are entering into the new. Soon the
Lamb will be slain no more. In the noble,
self-sacrificing women and men of real re
form, or of paradise regained, we have to
day perhaps more than the “hundred, forty
and four thousand, redeemed from the
earth;”—the earthy, or carnal—“which are
not defiled with women, for they are v ir
gins.” There are both women and men
living in thevirgin state, “ redeemed from
among men, being the first fruits unto God
and the Lamb.” This is the true R e
demption, and the clean life of Jesus
stood in redemption, as the example for
male virgins. These are the first-fruits,,
the children of the resurrection. These
who never m arry nor are given in mar
riage are the angels of God, and these are
the true spouse, or the Lamb’s wife.
T heir ways are the righteousness or fine
linen of the saints. These of virgin life
have the promise of seeing the face of
God, or the Lamb, and of having His
name in their foreheads, which name is
the great, the sacred, the awful name, the
“ new nam e” given unto them and for
which the ages have been seeking Yeho-
vah. Can we, will we see the truth, and
will we overcome ? Blessed state, or
heaven.
SELECTIOXS FROM A LECTURE ON MENTAL
HYGIENE.
•T01IN STOI.Z, M. 1).
WIIAT IS THE MINI)?
The mind is to a large extent, a mys
tery. For ages, the most profound think
ers have attem pted its solution. The
problem is stiil before us, and we may
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consider ourselves as searching for th e
tru th . P erhaps the m ost comprehensive,
as well as the most b rief explanation th at
can be given, is, th a t the m ind is a phe
nomenon of an intellectual character, con
stitu tin g the th in k ing principal of man.
M ind can be resolved into nothing
more fundam ental than itself. M ind is
simple and homogeneous, having func
tional com plexities in its activity and re
lationship to m atter. W e may know the
m ind’s capabilities, but as to its essence,
we know not any more than what m atter
is in its essence.
nous t iie b r a in t h in k
N o; th e brain, nerves, and ganglionic cen
tres are organs of the mind, and do not
think. The mind plays on them as a m u
sician on a musical instrum ent. M audsley
observes that there is a m ental and physi
cal organization, and th at the hem ispheri
cal centres of the brain are organs of the
mind. The mind is, doubtless, closely re
lated to m atter; but its function is higher;
far removed from the common properties
of the corporeal, which now takes us into
the plane of ideas. T he late philosophy
of C arpenter and others, who claim th a t
unconscious cerebation is the only source
of m ental action, is m ost successfully re
futed when the facts are known. A. W il
fred Hall speaks of the thinking principle
as an incorporeal entity. It m ust be th at
the intellectual is an ego principle, be
yond a mere mode of molecular motion or
change of position of the brain, or else all
is hushed in eternal silence a t death.
ritlM A R Y CELL.
All physical life evolves from a cell.
T he prim ary cell is formed out of a homo
geneous mass called the plastem a. T he
life forces th at aeutate the prim ary cell
form ation, are light, heat, oxygen, w ater
and albumen, as a base. These combine
and form electricity and magnetism as
forms of motion and force, and finally life,
which is simply another, and more subtle
form of motion. T he life-giving forces in
th e form ation of th e prim ary cell are the
same in the plant, the flower, the tree, tl)e
bird, the lam b, the lion, the horse, the
or the man. T he ultim ate object of C(,n
grow th is the form ation of a body, ai,j
this is accom plished by a process of a sii^_
pie cell aggregation. I t is a t this point
pass out of the physical and go in up<>n
the plane or realm of genii. Ideas a;,e
not furnished by the sim ple aggregati<in
of cells. I t is a genii principle th at direc^s
the course of the cell. /A/h is a shutqe
that weaves the webb, the Genii the iceave^g
who plan.
MENTAL FUNCTION.
? In the study of the m ind, we are co^.
stan tly passing from the simple to tlle
com plex. T he suggestive power, the i^_
tuition, the philosophical, and the pow^r
to reason from cause to effect, or vice vers^
are some of the attrib u te s of m entality.
In all of the intellectual transactions uf
life, we are governed by circum stance
and antecedent experience. All of our sip.,
roundings affect us, and we m ust learn h o y
to overcome any unpleasant or injurioi|s
results, and as much as possible, entertain
the right.
These are the starting-points in strength-
ening and educating the m ental function,^
E v ery th in g in nature contributes to the
m ind, th at we m ay have som ething about
which to think.
I t lias been observed by em inent think
ers th at to educate well a mind to great
ness, is to make its surroundings and con
ditions of a character having th a t tenden
cy. A gain, a good body is a starting-
point for a good m ind. T here is nothing
g re at on earth bu t m an, and there is noth
ing g reat in man but mind. T he body,
w ithout m ind, would sink into nothing
ness.
MINI) IMPULSE.
M ental impulse gives energy beyond
th e inherent bodily powers. I t is by a de
term ined will th a t an extra am ount of
strength is im parted to the body. Though
tem porary in th eir effects, still the fact
proves th at the m ental energies are ana
T h is m a t e r i a l w a s c o p i e d
at the NLM and m a y be
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ogous to the physical. A current of elec
tricity applied to a bar of iron, increases
the power of cohesion, and in every way
the iron is stronger while thus charged. A
person during a lit of anger, or under
great mental excitement, sometimes be
comes almost superhuman in strength. The
insane often furnish examples of great
strength, where the body is very weak and
emaciated. A t the time of the great Chi
cago lire, a lady, an invalid for several
years, became so excited that she rose,
packed her Saratoga trunk, carried it
down one flight of stairs and pulled it
along the street a block or more, to a place
of safety. I t was afterward learned th at
the w eight of the trunk was such th at it
required two men to lift it into a wagon.
In the face of facts which are demon
strable, there can be no doubt as to
the mental force im parted to the body in
addition to th at which is simply the force
produced by organic life.
-^Deplorable F acts.-^
SELECTED FROM “ DETERIORATION OF TIIE
PURITAN STOCK, AND ITS CAUSES.”
JOHN ELLIS, M. D.
W hile the wasp waist has, in a measure,
disappeared, we have at present, unfortu
nately, the steadily vanishing chest and
abdomen. T ig h t dressing is now carried
up on the chest, over the breasts and down
upon the abdomen, as never before. It is
often carried as close down to the hips as
possible, with a triangular position of the
corset, extending over the abdomen in
front; and thus the abdominal viscera are
crowded down upon the reproductive or
gans, as never before. It is this general
compression which is so rapidly prevent
ing the development of our women and
im pairing th eir vitality, and which is im
measurably worse than the tig h t dressing
of fifty years ago.
It does seem, th at at this day, in the
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light of this new age, every intelligent
man and woman cannot but see and under
stand th at it is wrong to use poisonous
fluids like ferm ented wine, beer and dis
tilled liquors, which are causing so much
crime, poverty, unhappiness, drunkenness
and insanity; or tobacco, which, even in
small quantities, will cause such deadly
nausea, irregularity of the heart’s action,
disease of the heart, stomach or brain; or
opium, which will cause stupor and death,
or if taken in moderate doses for any
length of time, will, like a demon, hold a
man in a grasp from which it is almost
impossible for him to be rescued, and
never without great suffering ; or, again,
for a woman by the use of stays, corsets,
or any other means, to strive to contract
her waist, and thus destroy the symme
try of form and gracefulness with which
the Lord has endowed her.
W hen physical transgressions are eith
er too great or too long persisted in,
there comes a time when death there
from is inevitable, and the sufferer dies;
prayer cannot save his life, the physi
cian cannot rescue him, and the inflow
ing of life from the Lord, through nour
ishing food, air, light and heat, do not
revive him. lie dies from his transgres
sions. The penalty for sin, if a man
does not stop sinning, is death. And
more than this, the penalty of transgres
sion is death, to whatever extent we car
ry our transgressions, for in youth they
prevent development, and forever destroy
the chance for the highest development;
and during both young and adult age,
they im pair the vitality and cause the de
formity and disease to the extent of the
transgression, and the man ean never be
what he m ight have been if he had lived
an orderly life; and even his children
cannot be what they m ight have been if
he had lived a true life.
Such transgressions as are named
above, are violations of natural laws of
life, and will surely bring with them the
penalties attached to them, even though
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we may transgress ignorantly. Am ,
when know ing such habits to be dangei-
oiis and injurious, we deliberately com
mence indulging in them to gratify our
sensual appetites or vanity, or persist in
such h abits afte r we see th a t they are
wrong, they become sins against G od; for
we have no m ore rig h t to destroy our own
health and lives, than we have the health
an d lives of others.
Doctor Holcombe, a d i s t i n g u i s h e d
Am erican physician and w riter says :
Look at our own country, the freest and most
favored, and which ought to he the wisest and
happiest on the globe, if the civilization of mod
ern Christianity were productive of happiness
and wisdom. What do we see ?
The spiritual desolation of the age in all its
most painful forms.
The differences, contentions, disintegrations,
decadence and helplessness of Christianity, asso
ciated with the most enormous pretentions and
self delusions.
The alarming increase of intemperance, opium
eating, debauchery, the social evil, insanity, sui
cide, embezzlement and all o ther crimes; insanity
alone, increasing proportionately faster than
population in every civilized country.
The waning power of duty ; the apotheosis of
pleasure ; the reign of buffoonery.
The astonishing fact that Christians can con
sent to be rich, and to grow richer, amid all
the want and suffering that surround them.
That they squander in ostentatious displays
and selfish appetites more money than would re
lieve all the necessities of the world.
The official statement o f the annual expendi
tures of the people of the United States for re
ligious purposes is one dollar and ten cents per
head; for educational purposes, two dollars and
two cents per head ; and for alcoholic liquors
seventeen dollars per head ! The nation con
sumes seven hundred millions of dollars' worth
of intoxicating drinks every year ! Can any one
imagine the moral and physical evils, present
and prospective, which are involved in’ that ter
rible fact ■! Are we tending, in the midst of our
fifty thousand churches, to become a nation of
drunkards, paupers, criminals and lunatics V
The crime against the unborn child, which
destroys the parental instinct, encourages sensu
ality, and suppresses population, is as common
to day in the most enlightened Christian com
munities, as it ever was in pagan Home. “ o f
this detestable deed,” says Dr. Storer, of Boston
who has collected an enormous amount of , >v i _’
T h is m a t e ria l w a s co p ie d
a t t f i e MLM a n d m a y b e
M S u b je c SJS C o pyrig ht La w s
deuce on this subject, “ the statements Vgade,
though simple and true, appear so nstoundiDg aa
to shock belief, and so degrading as to te^(j ,(>
lessen all faith in natural ail'cetion and g<>nenll
morality.’
To the Editor of Tile Mind-Cure and Science of Lif<.
- ^ - E g o t is n ? .- ^ -
DB. E. W. BALDWIN.
M r . E d i t o r :— Is a m artyr an <tg°Ust if
A re the days of a self-educated man, wjlose
whole existence is one continuous strug
gle, a life of inglorious ease V A re
possibilities possible ? Intelligent people
are governed by facts, while the less en_
lightened m ay be controlled by opinj0j)g_
and in the absence of either, what w0u]<j
be our plight ? T he best lorm ot geppia
is the ability to plod, and this is the biost
efficient quality for a true refoi'fjler_
Merely spasm odic efforts, followed by
tedious inaction, w ould do little towards
world building.
T he ancients believed in sacred num
bers, the num ber tw elve b eing one o f th ejp
most significant ones. T hey had a vague>
indefinite idea th a t the brain or mind
was naturally organized in to tw elv eg ro u p ^
seven above and five below, th a t in the
infancy of the race, the la tte r only Were
brought into requisition, and, gradually,,
by the laws of evolution and the solutions
ol science, every p art of the brain would
be equally exercised, resulting a t last in a
perfect day. Also, a very distinguished
modern w riter—who is not known as Well
now as be will be a hundred years hence—
lias revived the idea w ith great elabora
tion and em phasis; and altogether, it is at
least a plausible theory th at we are al
ready started on a new path to greater
and greater happiness, solidity of judg
m ent, more enduring, and pleasant fields
before us, endless to contem plate. The
w riter above alluded to, has outlined the
education of the future, but a synopsis of
here could not do it justice, and the
hook itself should he read by all who are
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For The Mind-Cure and Science oC Life.
^ •P a t h o lo g y of In fla m m a tio p.- ^ -
CIIAKLES .1. LEWIS, M. D.
I am fully impressed with the great
responsibility that rests upon an author
who undertakes to read out in plain words
an abstruse tru th concerning which he is
supposed to be conversant. T h at the pro
cess of inflammation is abstruse will be
adm itted after the slightest reflection;
and in order th at the thought expressed
may be of practical use to the busy
practitioner of the healing art, the ques
tion will be clearly stated and closely
defined as ordinarily understood.
The A rabs called inflammation a “bla/,-
ing-up,” a “heat.” It was also called a
“burning.” Such an idea has adhered to
the word from that ancient time to the
present, and it is to be found running
through all of the medical literature of to-
day.
Among the comparatively recent obser
vers of inflammation may be mentioned
Virchow, Cohnheiin, Strieker and Paget.
Not one of these renowned pathologists,
however, have given such an intelligent
account of the course of this process that
it is in all of its parts faithful, accurate,
T h is m a t e r ia l w a s c o p ie d
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~t:ovb 'Wilt:
INSPIRATION
IS THE
CZSZTSTTIEie,-
6 r*VA)
DEPARTM ENT.
true. Nor has it been the fortune of the
writer to m eet from others such a descrip
tion of the process of inflammation as to
be wholly acceptable to him. Therefore,
to make the pathological narrative ac
ceptable, he will supplement it with his
own deductions which are here published
for the first time. Firstly, however, w hat
is at present taught will be presented, and
the results of his own observations will
be delineated lastly.
Inflammation has been regarded, 1st, as a
perverted nutrition: Or secondly, molecular
change in the arteriesand veins: Or thirdly,
a poisoning or changing of the blood by
direct action of a lethal drug, e. </. arsenic,
or disease-germs. The great breadth of
idea contained in these concentrated ex
pressions do not loom up into the in
telligence, only after a close application
of the mind. Hence, it becomes a duty to
begin the description of inflammation as
near to the border line of health as our
medical science will permit, and continue
the description line by line, that the
reader may have at the end a well rounded
word picture of the present knowledge of
the subject in hand.
Take a male frog and securely fasten
him on a plate of glass and inject under
the skin about 20'00 of a grain of curare.
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As to the first, or perverted nutrition,
In about one hour lie will be so paralyzed it is to be observed th a t the analogy be
th at to keep him alive it will be necessary tween it and normal nutrition is veiy
to employ a rtificial respiration. A vertical close. In both, there is excess of blood,
incision about one-half inch, in length is a slow ing of the blood-current, an exuda
now made in the wall of the abdomen ex tion of a p art of the contents of the
ten d in g downwards from the lower border arteries and arterio capillaries in a certain
of the liver. T hrough this opening gently stage, through th e ir walls to repair and
draw out as much of the intestine as will cause grow th of th e body in the one case,
be needed to get a sufficient area of the and in the other, to be transform ed info
m esentery to conveniently furnish a field pus; so, also, there is redness, swelling
for the microscope. and heat in both. T h e principal phenomena
It now will be seen th a t the arteries are of inflammation are pain, swelling, red
sm aller than the veins.—The artificial ness and heat; pain not being present in
respiration m aintains the heart’s action. normal tissue feeding. A nd it will he
1 he current of blood in the arteries passes fa rth e r borne in m ind, th at the redness,
w ith such velocity th a t the shape of the h eat and sw elling of n utrition are less
corpuscles cannot be made out, b u t they prom inent than they are in inflammation.
both the red and the white corpuscles— Yet, a fte r all, the difference betw een tissue
can be made out in the veins. A t first, feeding or nutrition and tissue destruction
th e circulation is notably accelerated in or inflammation is so inconsiderable in
the arteries, capillaries and veins, but th e ir general phenom ena th a t to draw a
a lte r the lapse of about two hours it will line of dem arcation between them would
be observed th a t the venous current is so
be exceedingly difficult.
m uch retarded th at th e term stasis—stand Concerning the change th a t occurs in
still—is applied to it. D uring this slow the walls of the small vessels which per
ing process the w hite corpuscles hug the m its of the passage through th e ir pores of
lin in og of
-- the veins, and thus
*---- ■) ---- --- continue to more blood than the tissues dem anded;
lo iter until they by th eir numbers densely the s trongtendency of the w hite corpuscles
pack th e vessel, though m ost generally to aggregate on and to adhere closely to
allow ing a fine stream of blood through the lining, and th e ir subsequent self
the centre. Presently, some of the white lim ited m igration into the tissues outside
corpuscles th at have been cleaving to the of the veins, the p resen t status of infor-
A
lining of the vein will pass out, from over m ation is very vague and in some respects
crowding, into the meshes of flesh the
quite unsatisfactory.
vein passes through. Some of the serum A s to th e th ird idea of inflam m ation—
or w ater of the blood will also pass out. th at i t m ight arise through poison having
W e will now set the microscope aside. entered the blood—for exam ple, arsenic.
The above described disturbance in the T his drug is used topically by surgeons as
circulation arose from the m anipulation an esoharotic to remove m orbid grow ths
needed in the investigation and exposure in some instances, in some, to cut short a
to the atmosphere. In general terms, rapidly spreading inflam m ation on the
then, the first known stage of inflamma surface of ulcers. W hen an excess of
tion is the period of irritation, then the arsenic gets in contact with healthy sur
stasis, and lastly the effusion or passing face granulations, it has been observed
out of th e veins of the white corpuscles th a t so much of i t has been absorbed as to
and serum. H aving now learned th at the induce an inflammation in the stom ach
norm al circulation can be impeded or fully the same as if i t had been swallowed.
in terru p ted we are prepared to consider
W h a t seems inexplicable is th at such
th e definitions th at are given above.

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quantities of arsenic could be carried by rapidly accum ulating putrefactive ele

the blood to the mucous membrane of the ments. Putrefaction is the decomposi
stom ach as to literally destroy it, and to tion or rotting of complex m aterial like
cause no apparent injury to either the albumen, gelatine or vegetable substances.
blood or its vessels. This always takes place when moisture
I will now consider theaotion of disease- and heat are present. Hence all animal
germ s on the blood. The germ theory of as well as vegetable refuse decompose or
disease is at present, both in Europe and ferment. T here being no power behind
Am erica, so widely discussed th at it can the venous blood to drive it on to the
be designated the prevailing or fashion depurating organs, any check applied to
able medical creed. This creed as gener it is more effective in staying it than the
ally understood is the entrance of these arterial. T he blood being normally a
disease-germs into the blood or tissues at “corrupt fluid” holding in solution dead
a time when they are in full health, and and offensive m aterial, it is always sus
by th eir presence in and action thereon, set ceptible of ferm entation to arise out of
up the inflammation they are the special the refuse and thus set in motion a dis
gavli“rt1Sd''rid'Mere, rtL u ^iilptyV/iurcnhir turbing process. This is always to be
gift. Thousands of instances through the looked for where the blood stasis is of
centuries and in our m idst dem onstrate sufficient duration to allow of the entrance
the certainty of healing through the into it of bacteria. These bacteria or
m agnetic touch or laying on of hands, yet germs belong to the vegetable kingdom
great m ajorities of the people treat the and cannot exist upon the animal kingdom,
subject w ith scorn and derision. The excepting in so f a r as they can fin d dead
medical profession, who have for so long and useless tissue. These microscopic or
a time ignored its valuable aid, are still ganisms infest and thrive upon the waste
lighting against its claims, as evidenced and effete material commingled with the
in th eir efforts to pass laws in many blood until they have set up a ferm enta
States to suppress all m anner of healing, tion which further impedes the flow and
except through th eir fossilized modes of thereby further dilate the walls of the
treatm ent. The question is one of vital veins, thus more fully opening the pores
im port to the people; candid investigation of the vessels, perm itting the extravasa
is demanded; grand results in healing by tion of the serum into the cellular tissue,
m anipulations through the m agnetic hand resulting in redness, swelling, pain and
are rapidly occurring at various points heat. Closely following the slowing of
throughout this country and Europe. The the venous current the above m entioned
g ift of healing, as Christ predicted, is fall ferm entation commences, and is called
ing like a mantle over hundreds of noble the irritative period, while the dilatation
men and women in this age, and our op- and extravasation represents the stage of
posers stand murmuring, one w ith the congestion—swelling. The deleterious
other, in the synagogues and market influence of germs, as stated above, is, as
places. Suffering humanity, physical and far as I am aware, here presented for the
mental, everywhere need to be healed; first time.
therefore, all barriers to health and prog W hat has now been said of inflamma
ress should be removed. A law restrict tion is to be understood th at its process
ing one from using the powers vested in takes its rise in the veins. Having thus
him for the relief of the sick is an outrage related the pathology of internal inflam
and insult to the intelligence of the age. mation, the reader is prepared to learn
W . II. v osnuKuii, th at all inflammations w hether the result
M agnetic Physician, Troy, N. Y. of traum a, of cold, of heat, of diphtheria or

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of chemical action such as th a t of cor w ithout a perceptible h alt in his gait^

rosive sublimate, or of whatever cause, Reliyio-Philosophical Journal.
are entirely dependent upon an inefficient
‘ F a r in the dee)) infinitudes of space
or too slow a process of removal of the Upon a throne of silence, when chaos reigpe(j
dead and effete m aterial from th e im W asthe Lord of the center of the Uni vers,,
m ediate vicinity and contact with living’ —Japanese Belir/(oll
tissue and blood.
733 Carroll avenue, Chicago. “ W hat God shall we adore with sacrifice ?
Ilim let us praise, the golden child th a t rose
In the beginning, who was born the Lord—
Remarkable G u r e.^ The one sole Lord of all th at is—who made
The earth and formed the sky, who giveth );fe
A short time ago we gave an account of W ho giveth strength, whose b idding gods rev yrt.
the remarkable healing powers possessed Who hiding-place is immortality, whose shat)0w
by Mr. Myers, of York, P a. T his week Death, who by His might is King of all
The breathing, s leeping, w aking world—
we have the pleasure of again chronicling Who is the breath o f life o f all that liees."
another of his wonderful cures as set forth —Bible of the i l i o 'f 11
by the Philadelphia Times. Mr. Jam es M,u ’• o
Kennedy, of P hiladelphia, was the suf om inent than they are in inflam m ation,
ferer. W hen he called upon Mr. M yers, et, a fte r all, the difference betw een tissue
lie was a complete wreck. For more than uding or nutrition and tissue destruction
nine years he had been crippled by w hat 1 inflam m ation is so inconsiderable in
em inent physicians of P hiladelphia pro- }eir __ ogeneral phenom ena th a ■ t to draw a
1 ii
nounced sciatica and for which they had ll0 Qf dem arcation between them would
applied all the known remedies w ithout 3 exceedingly difficult,
avail. Mr. Myers began by m aking a Concerning the change th at occurs in
num ber of inquiries of his patient. A fter le walls of the small vessels which per-
satisfying him self in regard to the nature it8 0f the passage through their pores of
of the trouble, he then began his treat- ,ore blood than the tissues dem anded,
ment, which is rem arkable only for its ie strong tendency of the w hite corpuscles
sim plicity. A fter m aking a few delicate aggregate on and to adhere closely to
passes over the afflicted parts, the operator ;ie lining, and their subsequent self-
placed one hand upon the patient’s fore- raited m igration into the tissues outside
head and the other upon the back of his £ veins, the present status ol in tor-
head. T his was continued for a few min- aation is very vague and in some respects
utes and then the operator said, jocularly, (Ujte unsatisfactory.
b u t w ith an assurance which was indica- ^ s the th ird idea of inflammation
tive of his own confidence: “ Instantan- jjat £t m ight arise through poison having
eously cured! 1 m ust now say, in the ,ntered the blood—for example, arsenic,
language of the Scripture, ‘Take up th y tlrUg is used topically by surgeons as
bed and walk.’” M r.K ennedy obeyed, hesi- n eBCharotic to remove m orbid grow ths
tatin g ly at first, but more boldly when he n gome instances, in some, to cut short a
discovered that the task was not difficult, apidly spreading inflammation on th e
M arvelous as it may appear, it is n e v e r-u rface of ulcers. W hen an excess of
tlieless a fact th at a man who has been for ,rsenie gets in contact with healthy sur-
years a helpless cripple, who labored p a in -ace granulations, it lias been observed
fully along w ith half paralyzed and use- |iat g0 much of it has been absorbed as to
less limbs, now walks the streets and aciuce an inflammation in the stom ach
prom enades the office of the Central Hotel |je game as if it had been swallowed,
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From Miller's Psychometric Circular.
Healing by the Laying On of Hands.
Healing by the laying on of hands, al
though practiced all through the past, is
unfortunately but little understood in our
day. T here is a v ast amount of ignorance
and superstition regarding its claims and
philosophy; Christians in all of the various
church organizations believe Jesus healed
the sick by the laying on of hands, claim
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said there would those follow after him
who would perform even greater works,
show ing conclusively th at he did not re
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gift. Thousands of instances through the
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