Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1910 — The Power of Faith. [ARTICLE]

The Power of Faith.

The British Medical Journal says that a patient who believes that nothing can save him helps to seal his own doom. That is to say, all the skill and experience of the physician are of little avail unless they are augumented by the faith of the patient. The popularity of the various forma of faith-healing is thus not hard to understand. The body is the slave of the mind. To imagine yourself ill is actually to be ill. To wi 11 yourself well Is often to become well. It has now been made an open question whether the presence and the drugs of the physician are not ot importance primarily because they excite faith. We know that broken legs are not set by faith, or a decayed tooth removed by the mere desire to have good teeth. But It is certain that faith —so acutely defined by the Apostle Paul as "the substance ol things hoped for" —can actually cause certain physical pains to disappear, and that, joined to common sense, its power is almost limitless. Ther power of aspiration and- the power ot faith do not act as directly on the body as they do on the character. They are hampered by grosser conditions and limitations. But, nevertheless, their power Is great There are innumerable examples of the sickly man, actuated dv n keen ambition to be strong, becomlfig almost miraculously robust-healed by faith In the feasibility of la throwing ufi hla ills. Be wise and temperate, learn the benefits of fresh air and exercise, and believe that there is nothing much the matter, and you will be well. Faltb may remove motuvaalns. Certainly then it can remove the woes of the hypochondriac end the Jumpy neurotic.— Pittsburg Press.