Show Jludern Marvels The subject of healing without doctors and without drugs is again to the front This time it has bean brought into prominence prom-inence through the reported miracles of a preacher in the east who it is stated works great wonders by the laying on of hands Local tfisputanta have taken part in the contention and one expounder of some prominence has avowed his disbelief in the genuineness of any case of healing I outside of the ordinary methods The testimony as to the cures alleged to be wrought through the ministrations of tho newest claimant to these extraordinary powers is of a very positive character and while there may be some exaggorations due to the enterprising reporter and tho imaginative press dispatches there seems to be no good reason to doubt the fact tbat some very remarkable restorations of the sick to health have resulted from his endeavor en-deavor It Is well not to be over credulous it Is just as well not to be stubbornly skeptical skep-tical When evidences of certain facts arc clear and unimpeachable it is not wise to reject them because they do not comport with preconceived notions or long existing prejudices That remarkable effects have proceeded from causes that are variously named and but little understood cannot be truthfully denied Nor are they confined to any particular par-ticular church or society It is true that most of the religious bodies reject the idea of healings and miracles as possible in modern times but the phenomena are not exclusively found in those religious bodies that proclaim them as part of their creed The Mormons claim that the same remarkable re-markable manifestations which are related in the scriptures as common in the early Christian church and as occurring in more remote periods aro not only possiblein this ago but are frequently enj oyed among them today Healing by faith and the laying on of hands is a constituent part of their doctrine Christian scientists as they call themselves claim that cures of all kinds are effected by the power of mind over matter Or rather they assert that pain and disease have no real existence and that when this fact is established in the mind or spirit the ideas of pain and disease are expelled and the individual is freed from them The Catholic church has claimed for centuries that miracles aro wrought and marvels that seem to reach the impossible are actual verities in that body Without attempting to argue as to the authenticity of these assertions or theories the-ories it seems well established that persons per-sons outside of those organizations possess the power of effecting a change in the minds or bodies or botb of afflicted people that it amounts to a cure and tbat this has I been done without resorting to drugs or to I S professional physicians and though these phenomena may be more markedrat cor lain i periods tbantat others It appears that they I are not confined to any particular age or I I country I The ause of these effects is and will be much disputed But it seems strange that there should be any conflict of opinion upon i it among avowed believers in the Christian religion and in tho book which forms the foundation of its principles and establishment establish-ment Nothing Is more clearly and positively posi-tively set forth therein than tho theory that those manifestations of an unseen force are brought about through faith All things are possible to them that believe be-lieve is a Christian annunciation It comes from the author of Christianity Go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole was his admonition to tho sick who were healed at his word No matter what name may be given to the method call it mind cure imagination imagina-tion spiritual science miracle mesmerism hypnotism or by any other title the evidence seems to be clear that in all ages simple and unswerving faith has been the motive power upon a spiritual force that produces material effects And it is reasonable to believe I that this is governed by laws as fixed as those that rule the physical world as natural as attraction as sure as gravitation gravita-tion although those laws may yet be largely hidden from human comprehension Miracles that is to say marvels in violation viola-tion of the laws of tho universe may well be rejected by the rational mind But well attested phenomena which cannot be accounted ac-counted for by the limited knowledge of imperfect man ought not to be classed as miraculous unless a different meaning is attached to the term than that which it commonly conveys |