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Show i GAINING HEALTH BY NEWMETHODS Rev. Thomas Parker Boyd Explains the Mental and Spiritual Healing: of the Emmanuel Movement Bible, When Correctly Interpreted In-terpreted Conveys a Message of Health Germ Theory Has Been Overworked Rain Has Its Purpose Doctors Have Their Field L Common Sense an Essential. Yesterday morning the Ftev. Thorn-is Thorn-is Parker Boyd spoke to a large audience au-dience at the Church of the Good f, Shepherd. In the evening he spoke again at the Guild hall and every seat was taken. In the series of lectures on "The ; Fine Art of Being Well," he is care fully explaining the mental and spiritual spir-itual methods by which he heals, so lthat anyone who attends the lecture 'and applies the principles taught : there, can gain health, both for himself him-self and others He 6aid last night: "I do not expect people to become Episcopalians in order to gain health I have treated Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians and people of other faiths. I do not wish them to change the religion in which they were born It contains for them all that is necessary neces-sary for their welfare " Dr. Boyd will meet those who wish to consult him. morning from 10 to 12, in the afternoon at 3 o'clock, he will give special and minute instruction in-struction to members of the Emraanu j el clast and to all others who are interested; in-terested; and, in the evening, he will give a public lecture to which everybody every-body is Invited. There is no admls- ' i tion charge but a collection will oe taken. The meetings will all take place at the Guild Hall, at the corner of Twenty-fourth and Grant. m In his morning sermon he said, in part: r Morning Sermon, y In the third chapter of Exodus Is m a statement of fact, now called "New thought." In the psalms occur the ty, words, "Be still and know that I am k God." Did you ever think what a hard thing It Is to he still? In modern W times, there 1? much said concerning work, action, moement We spend u most of our time keeping machinery going; very little Is said about being still, yet how much more difficult f& be absolutely quiet than to move ! Stop every movement, be as quiet as you can. and you will notice your tongue moves James said. "The tongue cannot be contained." which means it cannot be kept still Yet "Be still and know that I am God " God did not appear in the midst ot .f the wind, the earthquake or the fira, but in the still small voice." The kingdom of heaven is within us. The point of contact with things of the spirit i6 within us; and, to approach the things of the spirit, we must be still It took Mose6 forty years to hear God speak Moses started In a s"ub-lime s"ub-lime egotist Everything centered about his personality He was the ,f son of the daughter of Pharaoh. Yet It was not until the voice spoke with- in, "I am that I am " that all things f came to him. When he needed wis dom, he stood still, and wisdom came When he needed power, the "still, small voice" gave power When the mountains rose on each 6ide and the sea rolled in front of them, Moses and his people "stood still" and saw the glory of God. ThlB is an age of egotism The United States Is a nation of egotists, the Westerners more so than the Easterners, while we find egotism gone to seed on the Pacific coast. Their each mao thinks himself a ver' itable Mt. Hood of civilization An egotist is one who considers himself as the center of activity while egotism is the philosophy which makes self the center of importance Moses found the solution of egotism when he heard, "I am that I am." The self-consciousness self-consciousness of "I am" must raerpe into the God-consciousness of "I am that I am." Man is to be Identified with God. "The FYither and I an ip." It Is the suprem"; dutj of life ij be? come conscious of this fact If 1 can make you feel th.-. I on and God are one, you will go From here with life having a new meaninc We slill look for God on Sunday In 'he sacred temple tem-ple We are content to come in contact with God once a week, or perhaps during our dallv prayers, or perhaps only once a year at a communion service. ser-vice. Every day Is holy; every place is holy; everv task or pastime is as much a part of life as saying prayers or going to church! When are we to learn that a man "diligent In his business," Is doing as much as the minister who preaches in the pulpit? We cannot measure up to toe personality per-sonality of Christ till we realize the meaning of The Father and 1 are one." The Master said. The Father and I are one; he that hath seen me hath seen the father " This consciousness Of God was the background of His j life How do we come to know God. only as we eee him expressed In flesh and blood. Loe of Gr,d is a dreamj ahstraction until we see It la love lavished by human beings. Di-vine Di-vine patience, or sacrifice, or any virtue mean9 nothing until we see it lived out in human form Your nigh DOT can know the meaning of divine love only as you manifest It The; Master was conscious of his one-1 ness wh God. Did he always have this consciousness; did he realize it In the temple or in the wilderness"' i It does not matter when or where he found that God dwelt in Him, but he prayed that we too might realize the God within us. He promised. Verily, verily I sa. unto ou, He that be-j lieveth in me, the work that I do ' Bhall he do also; and greater works phall be done." When the disciples could not cure the boy of epilepsy, It was because they did not have faith. In those days people, who had epilepsy and hysteria were said to be possessed of the devil. We think they act as if the w ere God offers salvation for body, soul, and spirit, but most of us accept It for the spirit only. The body 1b in possession of the medical fraternity When you hear the words ' preserve thy body and soul into everlasting life," do you think it means what It says? God gives health, and prosperity, prosper-ity, as well as salvation for the soul. The body is a holy thing. It Is one point of expression of tho infinite life You and I and every other person must express something of divinity. We must shake off an error of the dark ages that we are "poor worms of the dust " The ancient psalmist, answering his own question, "What is man"' exclaimed, "Thou has made him a little less than God," hut the translators were afraid to give man his true dignity, so they made it read, A little lower than the angels " And that action of the translators is in keeping with most of the acts In man's earthly career, for he was made with all created things under his feet but he promptly reersed the order and put them all over his head, and he has been trying to climb out ever since We should look to God for all things When you sing "Mv Father is Rich in houses and lands, etc.," and at the next prayer meeting call vourself 'a poor, weak worm of the dust," you denv by wholesale what you claim by retail We shall be i ashamed to magnify poverty See the ! otner side and think the other side Be ready for prosperity and gain it I by following its law by being "dill-j "dill-j gent in business, serving the Lord.' j No one ever followed that law and ! failed I There are some people who. by some sort of an intellectual somersault, somer-sault, declare the bodv is not real, that pain is only an error of the mor' tal mind But I never saw any one who could go more than forty days without food, a few days without water, wa-ter, and a few seconds without air Our bodies are the dwelling plac3 of God They are material and God promises material as well as spiritual benefits. (Continued on Page Eight.) oo GAINING HEALTH BY NEWMETHODS (Continued from Page Five Let us take our place in life dl-vlm dl-vlm life translated In terms of human hu-man flesh and human character. The Bible Is a sealed book until it goes out with two eyes, two feet, two hands, and a mouth to express In human hu-man terms its divinity. The church j may go on with its services but it can become effective onlv by it6 people peo-ple being the reincarnation of a di-Tine di-Tine life. Evening Lecture, rhe evening lecture was an introductory intro-ductory explanation of jome of the rhief features ol the Emmanuel movement Dr Boyd proceeded as follows-The follows-The work in California is a revival I of the custom and usage of the apos tolic tlme3. There is notbins; new j about It, but it sanity and common cense When we refer to spiritual I sources concerning the matter of : health, the fine art of being well, wp find from the earliest, ages that God I ha? always been Interested In the welfare of his people No man can expect to he in perfect per-fect health and violate the laws of j health, sanitation and hygiene. There is a law of the spirit as wall as of the body. This is Gods world and it is administered by law. Truth is not a final thine. We I must build line upon hue. precept upon precept, gathering here a little I and there a little. When we begin to thiuk of the Bible as the histor of an Inspired people, we will have the correct Idea. Truth was not delivered de-livered once and for all. but Is subject sub-ject to the law of evolution. It will go on unfolding until It reaches the level of the Divine God did not speak to the race in its childhood in the same terms as he speaks to it in Its manhood Men who thought the earth was Bquare could not give h final account of geography, or of the nature of God We had not dreamed of the fatherhood father-hood of God till ihe Master came Bach generation must fight out its own faith. God has been looked to as the source of healiug power as long as time has been. All people believ.- in an outside spiritual force ihat brings .in health This believed in in a blind way is superstition. The Indian who tries to scare the devil of sickness out of a baby with enough noise to scare it out of a grown person, succeeds in making the baby well Is it the noise, or the faith or the mental concentration thai cures the baby? No doubt some' healing force was set in motion. It's not the philosophy but. the result we are after When Namon bathed as directed by Elisha he was cured of the leprosy Health came from God upon compliance compli-ance with certain suggested conditions condi-tions but it came through the word of a man Every man who has risen to the! consciousness of his oneness with God may speak the word of salvation salva-tion and healing to any man Jesus fulfilled the rive conditions of messianic prophecy. He healed the sick, made the lame to walk, the blind to see, and the deaf to hear, and some people thought ho was possessed of a devil, even as some of m patients pa-tients carry out the same thought concerning me Some diseases cannot be cured by rental means alone. Epilepsy can-I ii"' be cui d until its physical basjfl has tir?t been removed The mesfl tal habit" of r-pllepsj may hp cursH Laws of health may be adminllj tcrod in many ways, and heald '-omi's in obedience to '.ne laws of Ujfl I body, of the mind and of the spirit. A man who in.-is's upon precrlb-J Ing the same diet lor all men is a dangerous crank One maa's meat It another man's poison." The body is a holy thing, thl : temple of the Holy Spirit, aud th I only Instrument through which Go( speaks We no longer consider thl i. ii washed, long-haired saints of thl dark ages as objects of admiratiol and emulation. Some pepole turn an intellectual somersault and strike health, but nS j mental science will cure tuberculosis I though it may and docs inhibit tin pain of the disease Nothing, I bs- lieve. will takf place of fresh ad cenerous diet and rest in the treat) i ment of this disease. I ;m not sure that thP medical proi ft BSlon added anything toward I ucement of the world when the' discovered the germ thoon Thl I germ theory has been overworked. ! ! genial disposition can take germ baked, boiled, fried or alive and suffe ! no harm, We can't stop to boil wats and worry, besides we mav kill son! good health germs that we need 1 on frii nd , bul critical term with New Though' and Vhrlstli Science. : so called Thev have thl truth in them Man cannot hold twJ ideas of opposite kind In his mlndi j ,nc saniP "me. I: ,,u c. hnramei "I" ur.til i; Is .rronge than the idea of pain, the pain wll dlsappe i here is, however, a grei daiic.r in Inhibiting pain which is thl - gnal that something Is drstroylttl the inherit; of th. lis, up Ir is'thl province of the physician to hssl; when organic disease is preseflH Sometimes, however, after the organlm disturbance has been adjusted tbtjl pain persists. This pain Is the resulffl of a men'. I I ibit iblished during the organic trouble, and such paisK ma; be In tied by the mental healSM The body may need material help. UfH mind mental help, and the spirit splNB ilual help to banish pain. There arp enough doctors and medl-J cines to keep the whole world welLB If mental science were right taersfl would be no pain. there Is faith 1 enough to heal aJl. yet people StftV continue to suffer It may be neces-B sary to combine two or all three ofB these methods to effeel a cure W'itall physical, sane mental and sane aplr-H Itua) methods the great majoritv off us could live in health. Vfter the lecture Dr Ro . d callssfl explained thsj method used In the cure of seversH specific cases. |