BLIND and DEAF to Simple Truth

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 21, 4 December 1936, Page 54

BLIND and DEAF to Simple Truth

Specially Written by Dr.

Ulric

Williams

in New Zealand of public-spirited men and women? . Or are they all blind-and deaf to-simple truth? Rather over a, year ago, two of Mrs. P.’s small daughters-she has seven-were miserably ill. with "septic throats," catarrhal conditions of nose and chest, with bunches of enlarged glands in the neck. I had for some time wrestled with her scepticism and prejudice in the matter of correct feeding and healthy general habits. Now I insisted upon a fast, followed by a very simple diet of milk, fruit and vegetables, together with sun-bathing. rest and deep-breathing practice. | S there really such a scarcity as there appears to be Last. week Mrs..P. brought the two young people to see me. What a marvellous, transformation! Narrow, rickety chests had filled out; miserable thin sticks had become lovely, sturdy limbs;. pale, flabby, and almost functionless skins were pink and brown; thin, pinched, unhealthylooking faces with woebegone expressions ‘were ruddy, laughing countenances, wreathed in bright curls! .No coughs. ‘No catarrh, No enlarged glands,. Two pictures of ‘beautiful glowing health: God’s lovely laughing babes.

And Mrs, P. says they. are all the same! She has very restricted means but, indeed, has made ‘the: smost of what she has. ‘Mrs. P., I stand at the salute! I reverence your devotion and faith. You have gloriously. succeeded," where so many, better placed: for. success, have been too slow even to make the-attempt. I’m delighted with you; proud’ of you. You are right in the forefront of New Zealand mothers, . And as those. two tiny people: are tactfully trained .to self-control. and: becoming restraint, while relishing healthy fun and despising weakness* and_self-in-dulgence, and instructed in quiet reliance upon the adequacy of the great power within, what: splendid beings they will become! . We are ‘coricerned ‘at the rising insanity rate. and. may well wonder how many, of the miserable wrecks who find ‘their way into our ‘asylums began their degenerate decline in. just’ such a con‘dition as, until recently, menaced these’ infants. And-"how. "much erime .and" moral delinquency is attributable to similar. causes!

I am looking for the time. ‘when parents will see ‘their children’s. needs .are adequately supplied and when the betrayal of tlieir offspring by ignorance or carelessness: will be regarded as such a crime that no one will care to face the weight of public condemnation, . Signs of Awakening. Stein ite tm AM thankful: to say that on 1 all sides there’ are , ‘signs* of an awakening. ‘So it will, not. be: long now before: the incidence of disease will ‘be: rapidly on the decline in ‘this wonderful’ land; ° Many instances tiave ten Piven in the course of these, other articles: and..talks* of. the almost. miraculous efficiency . of Nature’s methods-when Nature. is ‘given her chance; But it: is not ‘tobe thought. that success is. the. invariable ‘rule. By no manner ‘of ‘means. . "Success must be earned, and can‘ be earned ‘fully; only by: faithful and — persevering obedience to all the requirements of healthy life,

One great trouble, with many, is that when the degenerative process that is disease has.progressed so far that its symptoms cause suffering or alarm, the afflicted one, not unnaturally, desires immediate relief. He doesn’t much care what is done to him or how much, in reason, it may cost. What he does not want is to be told that he has brought his miseries upon himself, and that nobody but. himself can make good the lost ground. It does not interest him to learn that, even if his symptoms are modified or removed, whether by physical or spiritual means, unless he will mend his mistaken ways, worse will sooner or later befall. In fact, what he demands is that something or somebody shall make him well in order that he may continue to do the things that are. making him ill. It isn’t the lack of spiritual. response that surprises me, where sickness is concerned; it’s the sheer absence of ordinary common sense. There's nothing we can’t give up, if we like; and no habit we can’t control-if we want a es

enouga, ANG, DAVINS Slveh UP LLUoe things that occasion ill-health, it is a matter of common experience that, so long we as keep our thoughts away from them, the appetite for them is dead. So why -kill ourselves, or languish in decrepitude or pain, in order to indulge our craving for assorted indulgences we neither need nor really desire? Fantastic Costs. : YeEtr, rather than make the effort to give these up, people: submit, at a cost often fantastic in wretchedness and expense, to a variety of expedients, the outcome of which, in the long run, is frequently to accelerate the decline while banishing for ever the last hope from reform. Obedience to very simple laws usually spells good health, long life, immunity from disease, increasing ‘spiritual response, better family,.social and business relationships, greater prosperity, With, very commonly, the disappearance of any symptoms of disease that had previously been present. , The power that heals is within. The faculty that sets it to work is faith. But the law, in relativity, is "according to

your faith be it unto you." Few realise the negative implications of this law. Faith in good is constructive-and heals. Faith in evil is destructive, and causes disease. Just as inevitably as confidence, courage, cheerfulness, determination and perseverence tend towards recovery and well-being do fear, pusillanimity, pessimism, weakness‘ and yacillation tend toward decline and -ill-chance. People must realise: the might of the power within. It. is a terrifically potent force and, negatively directed, will drive you ‘as inevitably to hell as it will tend towards deliverance when positively aligned. Mr. A. is a chronic dyspeptic. His pale, dejected countenance, screwed, .up.in a whine of* perpetual protest, advertisés his aggressive pessimism. His only. happiness consists in making himself and everybody else miserable. He is continually whining: ‘about -hiS symptoms. and ‘talks of nothing else. In fact, he enjoys ill-health;; He is continually consulting mietical mén and healers of every kind. Not because he wants to get well- (Continued on next page.)

such a prospect would fill him with dismay. He is merely buying an audience. He refuses to admit that his unlovely exterior is merely the reflection of the man he has chosen to be. He is what he is making himself. Cancer is his probable fate-for he is cancerous already in mind. How did Christ heal such a ‘one? By the clarity of His perception: of the truth-that the appearance being presented to the world ‘was false: that the real Mr. A. is perfect, as God’s picture of him must ever be. The influence of Christ’s love and the intensity of his consciousness of the true nature of Mr. A. reStored Mr. A.’s faith in good and his faith in himself.

Error was corrected and healing instantaneous. The delivered man went on his way rejoicing. Agonised Apprehension. © LADY similarly afflicted, continually complains that it-is because. of the assorted aches and pains, because of her flatulence and palpitation, © because. of her’ neuritis and stiffened joints that she is so miserable and ill. She points out, with pride, that when the pains don’t trouble her she feels happy and well. This is not true, She ig never happy or well. Her spells of freedom from discomfort are periods of agonised apprehension lest, when her wretchedness returns, she suffer

more acutely than before. She is always despondent, ,except when some outward .event deflects her ; j attention, temporarily, from herself. .She is a vietim of fear. She wails that«she has no faith. But it is negatively directed; and, consequently, is directing the vital dynamic within. to her own undoing. Like the world to- day, she is fear ridden. She has a perfectly pathetic faith in evil. If she had onetenth of the faith in good and its unchallengeable power, that she is evidencing to-day in its oppo~ site, her recovery weald be reckoned ‘a miracle. 4 (Continued on page 57). .

Blind And Deaf

(Continued from page 55), Such a patient; though she will be -set free by declaring the truth, must be instructed in the physical laws of health because of the importance of . the part these play. There are many . who say: "It doesn’t matter what you’ eat." To whom I would say: "Would you dine off a putrid steak, or a stinking fish? No? Well, don’t try to live upon’ excessive quantitiés of refined and adulterated food substitutes, in unsuitable combination. For it might be healthier to eat dead bodies in an advanced state of decomposition, They would probably make you immedintely sick." — If, then, you are ailing and wish to get well, this is what you must do: first, accord every requirement of health your implicit obedience; sec: ond,. knowing the presence’ of the Heal- . ing Power within, and its nature and source, ACCEPT, without the slightest reserve, the assurance that "to

him that believeth, all things are -possible" "Believe that you HAVE RE- ~ CEIVED, and you shall have." (Not necessarily at once; nor in a week, or 2 mouth, or a year even.) God’s Spirit heals through the working of His Law.Therefore; third, when any acute’ dis-’ turbance of health appears, be prepar-: ed to fast until it subsides. : Remember that the acute illness is. generally Nature’s way of ridding the system of toxic accumulations which. very frequently, are the reason for ill. ° health, "s NEVER, whatever befall, or twhateyer any may say, allow doubt or fear in your mind, You can’t have it both. ways. Hither you will trust to the uttermost and get well, or give way to uncertainty or fear, and go under, °