Show J INFLUENCE OF OP MIND L L LY HEALING The special meeting of the Myton lyton Teacher Parent association last Friday Fri Iri day night was largely att attended attended Features of bf the musical program were piano solo Mrs R R. R c C. C Pike baritone s solo o. o A. A M. M Andreason male quartette A A. A ii M. M Andreason Andreas n A. A J. J Charles John Meeker I Frauds Francis Dauwalder The Speaker of this the evening Father D. D G. G Hunt of Vernal Ver Ver- nal who has for several months been in charge of ot Catholic wo work r. r k inor in the Uintah basin chose f for or his subject sub sub sub- subject Influence of ot the Mind iu in Healing Healing Heal Healing Heal Heal- ing It was a masterly address delivered In fine style Indeed it m made de such a lasting impression that it Is reproduced in brief briel as roll follows ws Mental healing is as old as tho human race Men Ien and women at all aU times have had physical ills and have cured them In part by the use of ot their minds Mental 1 healings has usually been by being called religion or magic or science The subject of oC mental mental healing presumes that man h has 8 a body anda and anda soul It that tl a presumes there ere is' is a body which may be affected by disease disease dis dis- ease case and it presumes furthermore that hat there is a mind which can influence in in- fluence luence the tho body This is the only only only- common solution of or the age ago old controversy between the mate materialist and add th the spiritualist The nia nia- oil oti the one ofle hand lurid have con con- tended ended that matter Is everything and and that hat there is no soul spul The spiritualists spiritual spiritual- nl- nl on the other hand have contend contend- c contended ed that there ther is a spirit world Some like ike the Christian Scientists have gone so far as s to say that there is no such things as matter and that soul and mind are everything The last century the tendency among the scholars of oC the world was towards extreme materialism Against this there has been a reaction which has taken the form of and Christian Science To just the degree degree degree de de- gree that Christian Science became influenced there will be another reaction reaction reaction tion back towards materialism for wherever one of two false extremes is asserted the human mind will seek a balance balanc in ill going towards yards theother tho the other extreme The simple truth Is that man moan has has- both a body and a soul Hence we are interested in mental healing i That the mind influences the body Is is known by Mind working improperly has been known to a actually actu tu- tu ally cause death People have died from fright without the least physical physical physical cal injury Diseases are sometimes caused exclusively by the mind Moreover 1 the mind working improperly improperly improperly im im- im- im properly intensifies many diseases that would otherwise be mild People People People Peo Peo- who in the midst of ot some sorrow sorrow- eat their meals as usual often orten suffer suffer surfer suf sur- fer from acute indigestion The organs organs organs or or- gans of the body do not function properly while the mind is preoccupied preoccupied preoccupied pre pied with sad thoughts If the mind can thus cause disease disease disease dis dis- dis- dis ease and intensify disease it is reasonable reasonable reasonable rea rea- to conclude that likewise the mind functioning properly can remove disease or 01 in any event minimize a disease already existing Hundreds of ot illustrations of this thia kind will occur to us Gone Coue t tells the stor story of ot how people at a banquet were vere made sick by being told suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly by the cook that he had in mistake mistake mistake mis mis- take put poison in their theil food fool When the cook later discovered that It was only a mistake these guests who had been suddenly made ill recovered recover recover- ed with equal promptness The thing that Is to be remembered is that they were really ill Their minds were so by the thoughts of sickness that they produced a physical physical cal condition which was really seri seri- ous oils The cause here was purely mental and so when the cause was removed the disease was removed It is known to athletic coaches that their men recover from injuries quickly when they are compelled to togo togo togo go out on tho the field and act as though they were well Football players improve improve improve im im- im- im prove their condition by appearing well and by trying to make their coach think that they are well Coue Couo insists that people inflicted with nosebleed can quickly cure the trouble by taking a watch in hand and insisting to themselves that within a certain number of or minutes minutes' the bleeding will VIII ce Here is the case of an an ailment which cinch in many cases at least has been ur- ur ed purely by the mind Cases have been known als also o where persons who ho were and who were t taken into a theater in wh wheel el chairs and tn there heard the cry of Fire have jumped to their feet and run out of the theater using their limbs limb for ll the he first time in many lUany years year 1 other cases will occur occur occur- to the ties reader from his own experience wherein the mind has produced cures of or orph ph physical ical ills Mental l cures are often mistakenly called religious Mr 11 DowIe Dowle in Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago cage dramatically announced lh flu tint t dt the he was the second Elijah and and he had come to restore the true religion religion religion ion and he claimed to D DP oa able to rare cure cureall all manner of diseases through simply simply simply sim sim- ply laying his hands on un the Hie heads of the diseased and praying for their recovery Thousands Thousands' I of people flocked ocI to Lo him and thousands were cured The fact tact Is not to be be overlooked overlook overlook- ed that many of them afflicted with serious ellous diseases were actu actually lly cured in this way Scores of other healers have done the same thing chief among them being Mrs Eddy and the Christian Science Unfortunately their cures have been labeled as religious cures They have allowed their deluded followers to think that God himself had performed perform perform- ed the cures through them when lh the truth of or tho the matter is that all or their cures were nothing more nor 1101 less tha than cures by hy the patients' patients own minds God hind had nothing to do with it These cures moreover were all within a certain denn definite te limit In Inno Inno Inno no case was sight restored to the blind or 01 hearing to the deaf In no- no case was a broken leg r Trended J JOn Ik Ii On Local Page |