water, but does not do an exact work for man until it is concentrated, held, and given direction by some mechanism which is the result of man’s inventive genius or discovery.
Love makes the truest, most successful healers, and wherever we find “natural healers” we find lovers of humanity. Their power has its source in the same spring whence flows every good, and it is because of their great love-nature that certain students are such powers for healing from their very entrance into life. Its warm radiance has been called “magnetism,” but when they turn from looking to their personal presence to do the healing and look to their word they find the quality that healed was mental, not physical.
whether the means used have been the relics of superstition or the skill of the All healing most advanced practitioner in medical from God. arts. We shall learn that the material means and other methods in which there is no recognition of God were but an interference, and caused the health to seem temporal instead of eternal, as it should be.
If we look into the secret causes of the success of worldly doctors and nurses we shall find them to be either love or faith, and generally both. The physician who grows old in a practice that is an honor to him is, deep down in his heart, an earnest lover of his fellowbeings, one whose love has caused him to make many a sacrifice of his own comfort and pleasure, and often to give faithful service where he knew there was no
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