Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-03

and You have taken away a percentage of
the source of sickness that would reduce
its aggregate to an amazing extent.
"But these are not all there is that pro-
duce sickness. Sorrow, grief, the multi
piled forms Of disappointment, discour-
agement and depres, ion, these mental
about many of the disorders and compli-
cations which are called physical diseases
"Other prolific causes of sickness are
the disorders arising from business worry
and disappointment. These are mental,
steal disturbance But the Christian
the cause of sickness. He is aware that
there are many other qualities of the hui
mind that are health destroying. / emu
merate these briefly as hatred, malice,
| revenge, jealousy, dishonesty, distrust,
anger, and kindred qualities. Remove
them and heaven has been brought vastly
nearer to earth, and an enormous work
| has been done toward establishing good
health.
"Now, my friends, let me ask you, can
these multiform mental causes of sick
ness be cured by any other than
spITlludl LuGdIs w Ill
material medicines reach and destroy
mental conditions and moral defects?
In other words, and more plainly, can
inanimate drugs destroy sin? The
soporific effect of drug may stupefy the
mind SO as to produce temporary relief,
but cure it cannot; heal. finally and effect
uallv, it does not, for it has dealt, at best,
only with effect it has not reached
root-cause.
'Nor can the surgeons knife cut out
mental conditions or moral defects The
utmost it can do is to remove the physical
effect of these.
''In say ing this wish to cast no rehec-
ton upon those who are practicing medi
cine and surgery. They are working up
to their highest standard of the healing
art. Their purpose and effort are to relieve
human suffering and stay the ravages of
disease. The question here submitted is:
Are they practicing the highest and best
methods Of healing? Have they reached
the true remedial standard if not, and a
better exists, then the trul V unselfish and
sincere of their class will welcome and
endorse that which is better, as soon as
they become convinced that there is a
better.
$50 far as Christianity has been sue
cessful in improving the world morally
and spiritually, just so far has it reduced
the percentage of all sickness which is the
result of sin. The preacher whose labors
have reduced the percentage of immor-
atty or wrong living in any form has COLI
tribnIed his part toward reducing The per-
centage Of all sickness resulting from such
wrong living. So with the temperance
reformer; and so with all who are labor
ing for better standard of life.
"And sayto on in conclusion that this
| God is you Physician. as well as mine.
We can 90 to him daily. hourly, momen-
tariIy, in sweet and silent prayer, and if
we pray Alright, lie will heal us of our
diseases and remove from us our infirm-
tiles. We can know, in the very depth
of our being, that lie is our Physician,
our Comforter. our Life, our Health, our
All-in-all, and in the fullest and most
absolute sense, very present help in
trouble; and that in HIN we live and
move and have our physical spiritual be-
ing.
MAY not, then, appeal to all good
people, Of every helief or sect, to aid us
in spreading this healing and saving
gospel May not deeply, earnestly, and
in the most fraternal spirit, ask yon TO
rejoice with us that God in these latter
dare, sending around tite world Il
mighty current Of healing truth, and may
| not ask yon to unite your voice with ours
in pleading for a higher and more general
recognitio of God a. all power, and OF all
that is nppnsed to Him as baseless and
impntpnt before His hlmightiness?