The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-01-29
MENTAL CONDITION.
Physical Health IS Dependent
Upon II.
Charles Brodie Patterson's L ctur. Before
Metaphysical Association.

Charles Brodie Patterson delivered n
lecture on Mental and Physical Health" :"
lasJ evening before Tie Rhode Island
Metaphy steal Association in Cottelle hall.
There was large attendance and before
the lecture there was we'll rendered
musical program.
At the outset Prof. Patterson outlined
his argument and followed IL out with u
concise and consecutive discussion. He
stated il TO be- q we'll established PROPOSE
tion that physical health depended on
mental condition. He quoted from many
forces to show that doctors could not
definitely determine disease, nor, there
fore.the remedy. he showed the inhu-
ence of the emotions on life. "All evil
comes from the outside. The good in life
comes from the centre OF things. Why
should this pep because man existed
as a spiritual being before he had phys
.oal existence.
There can be 70 evolution without
there being an inyolution. Man was first
a spiritual teIng anu afterwsrd took on
the image of his Maker. That was the
involution. Then we have the evolu-
ton: First. man as nm animal; then,
the thinking man; and, last the spirit
ual man.
"How docs man have mental dsoord
we nave man ON tlb lOWtr OF uDl-
mai. reaching up TO the higher plane
The habits of the lower plane tend TO
keep man down. but his better nature
keeps him reaching out for the higher
plane. Here is discord. Then in the
ascent there is a discord between the diff
ferent planes of his iexistence as evolu-
tion worksfout There is conflict between
the higher aspirations ot the socls and
the mental part of religion. All the
great truths come from the soul ana not
fiom oIeeds'
In referring TO the states which are
necessary, he referred 10 meditation and
concentration. BY meditation we shut
out the world and come into closer re-
lationship to God and make mental pic
lures that are uplifting by this medi-
tation we would shut out pictures of sor-
row and trouble. by the former pic
lures. and every thought contains q pic
ture, we will be benefited We have the
power to regulate these pictures by medi-
tating on the good and beautiful. and
this will be reflected in our health.
Continuing. the speaker said: AS re-
CARDS concentration 1t is dealing with one
Thing, and Of things ontside ourselves.
Now through concentration we 10 things
easily and we'll. BY It's use discord is
prevented.
If we should be we'll and strong we
must mediate and we m ust keep the mind
centred on the things we would do and
wa would be. But this IL not possible
when you allow your mind to wander
and pass from one thing Co another wa
must use concentration. Thec things Wa
must do If we would become well and
strong. Man has the power 10 regulate
his life lie can have health ana strength
by taking tho true way. lt IS the power
OF God in your own lite and using that
power in your own life -
At the close of his address he SAID that
the subject he had been speaking on was
n very large one, and he would he" glad
TO answer any questions that any ono
wished to ash. Thinking ana inedita-
tion, he said, were forms of prayer n
shutting oct tf ersor alty ard a renliz-
ing of the truer side Of liie.