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EOSICEUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
other hand, she points to the floor and exclaims, "Oh, dear,
how you hurt that poor floor, why that is too bad kiss it !"
the child will be very sorry it hurt the floor, thinking not at
all of its own lesions.
In a similar manner the physician influences his patient,
and it is criminal for a physician to enter the sickroom with
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mien, asking the patient to make his will, telling
him that he has not long to live. Those things act upon
the patient in a manner far greater than realized, and many
a physician has thus killed those whom he might have
saved. On the other hand, if he is cheerful and comes into
the sickroom with a smile and an encouraging word, if he
gives a harmless cure and a good suggestion the patient is
apt to recover where otherwise he might succumb to the dis-
materia medica. The
ease. Thus, suggestion is far beyond
faith which the patient has in the physician will work
wonders, either for good or for evil, and faith was the
method which Christ used in his healing. If the inquirer
will look up the instances where the Christ healed the sick
in the Bible, he will find that there was always a question
concerning the faith of the one seeking healing. To each
applicant the Christ said, "According to thy faith, be it
unto you."
That skepticism destroyed even His power is, perhaps,
most evident from the passage where we are told that He
journeyed to His native city and found that a prophet is
not without honor save in his own country. This story is
told in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew, also by Mark,
and it is significant that the last verse in the thirteenth
chapter of Matthew says that He did not do many mighty
works because of their unbelief. Mark tells us that be-
cause of their skepticism He was only able to heal a very few
people by laying His hands upon them.