The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-29
Go Operation of Religion and Medicine for Benefit of
 Mankind,
TWO GREATEST FORCES
Human Body Form of Mind--1hc Sub- Conscious Sclf--physiclan Has
 Double Influence.

has taken on special slEnlllranto m Us relation to the Christian church Whether 1t ls hailed on the one hand as a great and hlcssod revival, the re- acquisition by the church of the won, dorrul healing powers of Jesus and the early church, or whether on the other hand, lt is hailed as q dangerous fad,
 threatening 10 sidctrack the church and
 onGulf all other interests, it Is unmis
 takably present and vital issue
 1, What do we mean by the phrase
 religion and mediclne?' We mean
 the combination for the bencnt of man- | kind of two of the greatest forces
 known. that which ministers to the
 body and that which ministers to the
 soul Several years ago pr $. Weir
 Mitchell eminent physician said that
 religion and therapeutics ought to go | hand in hand and that fl they should
 the combination would prove invinci-
 blc President Mckenzie of Hartford 1 seminary in introducing tho recent course of lectures on psycho'herapy, expressed the hope that the two great 1 forces, thc ministry of healing and tho 1 ministry of preaching might be again
 brought together And Dr. Frederick
 IT, simpson. who gave inc first five lee l turcs, spoke Of the great value of the
 cooperation of minister and physician
 'Rolsjou and Medicine" then, does
 not mem religion as Q substitute for
 medicine. on even religion as a med- Icine: but 1t does mean the co operation
 of religion Nitn medicine religion fur Imshue tnc indispensable factors of i hope, courage confidence faith pa
 icnen peace without which nd mcii | cine Is fully effective lt means that rclpion and medicine aro two phases
 of what Is essentially oue ministry the ministry of the whole ira of man
 How IS thr combination of rolig
 ion and medicine possible? The phys- < clans ave not invariably religious men, and even when they arc they have lit-
 llo timc for ho study and application
 or religious principle iu thrir work 1 Nnd on thc other hand, thc minister ! has 1ud can have Httn spcialiacd Knowledge ol medicine tl hc possesses ant medical knoulodgo il s liable 10 represent that alhu, rarnus which l is dangerous thing Nevertheless | the combination of religion with medi- ! cine is possible because of certain modern conditions and tendencies
 It s possible drt because Of tha
 rcsut of modern psychology psy- eholog tho study of consciousness saek tp Np3m buWau motives and Impulses And t includes an such problems as thc effect of the mind lupou ths boIv and of the body upon | the mind lJ deals witl inc structure of t1o brain the action 1T tha mind Itha atruamr and junction of the ners ,oas system and lhat mysterious l thing which pe c9ll human personals |lN Nap what are ae results of modern psycholpgicol studies that point to tho possibility of combining Iroiet5u and madirine9
 oue result x that wc have learned
 to regard man as unit Nc no long
 or speak of sau ana ho3y f tbou
 were a great gulf or even a marked l division between hem 6r worse stIlt.
 as f thcy we've antagonists 10 each other
 4 Tho numan hody nay wcll he call ! rd, only form or mind but let us
 hear n our minds this important lis- ! tuetian When wo say that Inc body ] is q form of mind wo do not mean q
 form or an crror of Inc human mind, l bm 1 form that is an expression of ! lhu Divine mlud God has two forms 1 n which he expresses himself to us Iumd and matter. Why should we dc- ! libcratelt reject one oc thcso express sions" br. Worcester says conecrn- l ing this During the past generation 1 tho best thinkers of the world have
 been coming to a new conclusion in regard to man The substance of this | thought lg ifs recognition of Inc es- | sontal unity of humm nature. T.
 does not sacriGac Inc eoul to thc body l II does not eerk ln dtssipljn this com-
 pact and marvellous human frame Into
 norc ldca, like Christian Scioncc, nor to represent it as garment of tlc soul. like thc Now Thought Rut l il regards hodY and sold together as
 essential to tha integrity ol human nature"
 Another result of modern psychol-
 oef is our knowledge of the existence
 of what is called the suhcousrious self.
 When vo say the word 'myself" we
 mean generally the self of which we are conscious Rut tdero are many | things of which we are not conscious. | These compose what we call the sub
 conscious self. Who, for instance does | our breathing? What attends to the | beating of the heart the circulation
 of the blood, tbc opening and closing
 of valves and glands and pores, the | digestion of food, and many other
 constant and indispensable functions
 of the body" II certainly is not our
 conscious self Cror all these functions
 go on while we sleep or if we become
 unconsoiousl. It fig t0o subcous,ioUs
 self that performs all these activities
 for tis
 Now if is through tho two methods
 known as suggestion and self-sggca-
 ton that this subconscious self if
 reached and through it many great
 and beneficial results upon the health
 are effected. Here are som Of the
 results which actually have been
 achieved through suggestion to this
 subconscous self. as reported by q
 careful scientific observer ana stu- l d,rt, rrL, taD1D0railIrp of ih0 bndv ! has beon elevated or lowered, the pulse has been 0uiCbaned ar retarded, perapration has been produced in
 some forms of deafness the hearing | has been qHiekoncd, some forms of ! eczema have been removed, many l forms of pain have been hanished, l and parts or t1o body bae been ren- ! dorcd insousiho to paln Some forms
 of asthma have been checked al once,