Show the NEWS THE POWER OF FAITH the remarks in the NEWS about shenew the new york herald ridi ridiculing eulin culin the healing of the sick by the power of faith and the laying on of hands bands call to my ray mind some come reflect reflections eions on this mysterious power which perhaps may nou not bo be out of timo and place in the course of my ray experience I 1 have at times hid occasion to ask individuals skeptically i 1 coined to believe and have faith in jesus christ la in order that they might arrive at a state of knowledge essential to their eternal salvation such individuals have replied that my request was unreasonable that before they could 0 such a thing they would have to enslave their minds and restrain their freedom of thought 45 not believing bei tel feving leving in the dl divinity in at 0 christ and thal thai such an act a as unworthy a bane sane minded person that it might have answered in the dark ages but to a person basking in the resplendent out edt light cf the nineteenth ventury en tury such euch a thing was waa iid ild ridiculous culous now we would think that this tem tern of or reasoning would apply with much greater force if reversed since since gince the nineteenth century is noted for its advance in the domain of natural iben Ihen phenomena omena omeda and slid buch such is the diversity and multiplicity of discoveries that it would seem as though we e ought to ba be I repaired rep ired to be leve leva anything but such is s not the case care the refe refer referred red ired to strictures of shenew york herald bho pho show w a profound f inq ina ignorance ignot t in the attempt to cr a sut suje je t which apparently it knows absolutely nothing of for though psychology maybe may be said to be jn in its early ID infancy fancy faney there are certain known facts wh ch are becoming centralized by the en thinking and intelligent men and in time we may expect generalizations which will tend to coi cot firm the truth of the gospel of jesus christ the relations which the body and spirit fc ustain to one another lre are ire fraught wi h interest to the thinking maud and many have been the specula speculation tio s upon the subject yet if it jn in of the very nature of the subject we may never in this life solve its real difficulties nud aud ascertain the the ultimate cause wo we can hope as in in chemi chemistry try and other branches top tor each a knowledge of the minor laws which are connected therewith the reader of the holy scripture is altuch with the importance that is at attached to faith as a means of obtaining the highest alegree of intelligence pow power er and happiness that it id is possible for the human mind to con c ive of and if what is bald eald concern ing jug la Is true ia is a very desi deti desirable rable rabie A great many strange and miraculous things are said eald to nave have been performed ahr ugh this mysterious power and though people may aist alieve these thebe statement they cannot disprove th m ridicule proves notting except it be the mane malle or ignorance inorante of the person using it we wo can reasonably believe a fact though wo we know nothing of jt its causes and I 1 may ask is thelo these a anything more wonderful about these reputed miracles than mully nlaly of the phenomena of matuie that we are constant witnesses to but nut it la only in connection with religion that faith la Is ridic wied ulta otherwise its power is acknowledged though unexplained I 1 iho be hidden forces of nature aro arc but little understood and man posse possesses ses bes inherent powers of abi h be he is utterly unconscious thank be to the wisdom of the great creator for unless the knowledge of a certain thing is gen gin eral we aro ate liable to be in urea urca by y evil minded pr sons zons how is it that persons who are remark remarkably abio ablo for the poverty of their physical developments are under certain circum Stance 13 i sibie able to lift we chich but few or ot the strongest men can do richard bichard A proctor in on this subject fas ae tas the explanation of if this and the preceding eases cases cannot be mistaken mis mi staven by ph phy apologists and ia is very important in its bearing on the phenomena of generally at once involving an interpretation of the whole senies series of phenomena and suggesting other relations not as yet illustrated ex experimentally peri perl mentally it is well known that in our ordinary na ry use of any muscle we employ but a a mail small part of the muscle at any given moment what the mu do CIO ia is actually capable 11 is shown in convulsive conti contractions actions in f far tar more force ia is put lor tor h than the strongest efrost of the tile will could call int play we explain esp lalu laiu then the increase or strength in any bet act of muscles during the hypnotic state as us due to the concentration of the subjects will lu in an au normal abnormal manner or to an abnormal degree on that bet set cf of mu muscles eeles in a fil til milar wa the great greas increase in Ju crebo creise of certain powers of perception may be explained as aa dete dele to the con en ration nation or the will up ou on the corresponding parts ot of the nervous system sy stein stern here mere we eee tee ee those errant about mesmerism magnetism etc generalized erali zed r th e head had of con en of wih win chica is probably as far as we can reach in ti at direction now no w what is concentration of wiil will but faith it is generally inferred that faith can cau only be possessed by a it c certain ertain clas clasi of persons where excellence cell cel lence ienco eutee ettee and moral virtue s ahm above tiie tile aver ge yet in this we are no doubt wrung wrong laitu is au occult and as other powe powers ra may be post possessed essed or acquired by the good or the bad Is here anything any thing more strange about L seating eal ling chesick the bick sick by the laying kayin on of hands than the feats performed by pe sons in the hypnotic and other states I 1 trow not though as remarked by we the NEWS the fact tact of t e being bring healed healea does nut not es ers cablish the truth or divinity of any nay creed but it cert cero duly july goes goed a little way in jn estabi skiing the authority of the loi toi y it IL ia in said that know knowledge ledge is po power bu buon t in regard to 10 fal tat h we may hay ray nat bat power i knowledge and as the maxim works b th ways we can wn say buy that it is a no go d one when a person id Is a hed bed to hav have faith i e is not waked some thing un ea but simply to exercise exer eibe cipe a latent power within him much liht i e beat tsai d on his hid subject but not wishing to trespass upun upon a newspaper newe paper I 1 will brinig thim thia com corn Mun leation to a close and another ti e may hage hege h ve something more tu tir say sty on thib this most lug jug eu meet W B R MAY bowers mr lter ITer alitt G pratt N X baker B hunt bunt I 1 laL 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