Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1903 — Mental Healing. [ARTICLE]

Mental Healing.

“All biologioal prooeeoef (natural processes) are change* in living creations ooonning in oonformity with nttuxal laws—lags which grant note vow nor ask for obeervat ion or consideration by living creatures, laws which keep right on about their business, no matter whether the results of the natural prooeessee whioh they determine end in health, disease, or the death of the creature.” The mental, magnetio and divine healers, the Christian Boientist, faith onre and prayer oure are only different methods of applying the same law of healing. The preacher, the politician, the teacher Hnd the physician use suggestion. When the andienoe of the preaoher gives attention he says "the interest was intense,” the politician says "the people sere spell-bound,” the teaoher says, "the pupils were attentive,” while the physician or a better expression would be, suggestionist, says they were in a reoeption condition. We are all aware that a great variety of opinion exists ss to the method of operation in the heal* ing of disease. Every school of medicine, every variety of remedial praotioe claims for its particular kind all the virtue for the cure effected while the patients are under treatment Broad minded practitioners of all kinds know better. The more ignorant and narrow minded the individual, the more tenaoious he is of bis particular "pathio” or method. The faot is, in about 90 per cent of all cases of siokness the tendency is to health and they would recover, in time, if properly nursed and fed. There is also another faot and that is a great majority of cases would recover quicker than nature would cure, if the right treatment was used at the earliest possible time after the sickness is felt or recognized. Suggestion is used more or less by all who pretend to oure and it is the very beet and most successful method of mental healing.

I. B. WASHBURN.