ABSENT HEALING.

 

"Believe in the reality of all that is good, even in the fleeting forms of life. 'A glass of water given in my name shall deserve eternal life,' said the great Initiator." "Absent in body yet present in spirit." Who is able to prove that we are ever.in spirit absent from where we want to be • We are not in the body. The body is in us as a tiny projection of our interior life. We, the spirit has no space limitations. These belonging only to sense. "Absent" refers only to the sensible organism: and it is not that which does the treating and healing. Absent treating is therefore only a name for spirit presence without the body, and for the action of the spirit in healing power it is solicited and elects to be and to operate for good. There is therefore a great and present reality and a profound philosophy in the doctrine and practice designated as -absent treatment." It is not imaginary. It is not merely a subjective operation and influence.

This philosophy is well supported by facts, by excellent evidences and testimonies from all quarters. Like most other laborers in this work, I have seen very manifest effects from it, perhaps as clear and striking as those which flow from present treatment.

Therefore this absent treatment, so-called, so far as it is real, is one of the noblest and most beautiful phenomena that can be contemplated. It was always deemed sacred to pray for the absent. This treatment in its best form and spirit covers that, and adds more. It contains an element of spiritual science which the manner of prayer in the past has wanted; and implies an intellectual exercise in which that was defective. It is an intelligent and philosophical laying hold of eternal Life for the benefit of others. May this power lie mightily developed. It is destined to become an unspeakable blessing to mankind.

We personally know a lady, a healer and teacher of Christian Science in this city, who has been the instrument used for healing cases of consumption, deafness, dropsy, and catarrh, in the past year by absent treatment. Many of the patients she h as never seem, but they report themselves as healed and rejoicing in the truth. That is the glory of Christian Science. It heals the mind. Our bodies to-day are showing the thoughts tin; mind has held in. the past, either in sickness or health. Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health says, "The physical effects of fear illustrates its bad influence on the body. Gazing long and, helplessly at a l i on ready to spring upon you, would you not: suffer and feel weak. You should know that the body is. no more effected by animal fear than it is by images of disease held before the mind."  M

MODERN THOUGHT. KANSAS CITY, MO., APRIL, 1889

It became Unity a year later