FAITH AND MIRACLES

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14582, 3 February 1921, Page 2

FAITH AND MIRACLES

RATANA CHAMPIONED. A FUTURE FREE OF DISEASE. All down the ages man has been fascinated by true and false faiths, for which he has been ready to live or die. His faith in himself has steadily developed, and at the present time is being widely employed for his own upliftmenL. The work of RaUina, popularly known as the Maori miracle man. is at the moment the most conspicuous Illustration of the influence of faith, and the opinion of Mr P. 11. .McEwen was Sought by an Otago Times representative. Mr .McEwen is well known professionally as the Great McEwen; but he is' also recognised as an authority upon auto-suggestion and hypnosis by leading psychological research societies, and is quoted extensively by many leading authorities on auto-sug-gestion and the science of hypnosis. Mr MdEwen gives one the impression of Intense earnestness and sincerity when discussing such vital questions as man and his faith. Man, in his view, is capable of ascending the heights and remaining enthroned amid perfect health and sublime, happiness if he will have faith and obey natural law. He must have faith in himself and God. The reporter asked Mr McEwen to give ids interpretation of the fundamentals in modern healing, generally spoken of as miracles. He was emphatic. “They are Christ manifestations proven by the modern science of hypnosis, in which the duality of the mind or brain is recognised. The physical and spiritual force of suggestion is recognised when placed under the principles governing the law of suggestion. This proves the trulli of the Maori healer’s work, and of many others, in this present day of faels instead of fiction. It is all simply a part of the fulfilment of the promise which Christ left—that we would some day do even greater than He. No one who j recognises Hie true character of Christ could gay that He was ever I known to utter an idle remark, and if i we believe Hie Bible and the Biblical manifestations we must believe that what was clone in His time can lie clone In onr lime. "The Maori’s work is real. Intuitively I know it and believe it,” said Mr McEwen. “I have been the means of | curing 30 people in one day, among I whom were people afflicted with para- j lysis, rheumatism in its various forms, and almost every nerve trouble.” "Yes,” he said in answer to a question, "plenty fail. It is partly a ques- ' Ron of confidence in suggestion. The production of faith is spiritual and will at all times predominate over Hie physical. That truth is proven by Christ’s remark; ’Dost thou believe 1 can do this—l Master? According then to thy own faitli bo it unto yon.' Christ claimed no miraculous power. The woman touched the hem of His Garment and was instantly cured. 'Go thy way . in peace,' said Christ; ‘lh\ faith has made thee whole.’ ” “Take the law of suggestion and its weight,” he continued. "No man can be hypnotised against Ids will, and the hypnotised subject really does more to produce the condition than the operator. This is the age of aviation, tele- j palby, and hypnosis, each in itself a j science. All men have a part of the Until, but not all the truth.” And then Mr McEwen spoke very seriously. "The height of my ambition Is to get people to grasp the truth, knowing that when once they do Ibis disease will be harder to create Ilian it t« at the present day lo cure. Every law of the universe was made for man’s freedom. We believe in a just God. and we do not possess this freedom because we break His laws. Every man is the possessor of his own spiritual individuality which will at all times predominate over the physical senses snd control the actions of all necessary functions. Therefore (he possibility exists at all times of a therapeutic value In the suggestions accepted under Hi? intensified form of the law of suggestion or hypnosis.”