The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-18
WE KNOW IN PART
Dr. McLane, on Mental Healing, Declares We Mistake Part
 
 for Whole.
VALUE OF COMMON SENSE
Much Error Lies in Assuming That Rule in Few Instances Must
 Hold for All.

At Plymouth church Sunday morn ing the pastor, Rev. Dr. W. W. Me Lane preached a thoughtful sermon on "The Relation of the Soul to the Health of the Body" In the course of his talk he spoke of the limited knowl- edge which human beings have and the danger of mistaking a part for the whole. The sermon in full follows:
 For we know in part, and we proph- esy in part" l. Corinthians 1S:9, IT the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you" Romans S:11.
 On last Sunday morning l spoke to you on "The Religion of the Body and called your attention to certain reflex influences of bodily conditions on the soul This morning I propose to call your attention to the influence of cer- tain states of the soul on the body. These subjects have been in my mind for some time and these sermons are not preached for the purpose of at tacking or defending, any religious or any healing cult They are preached for the purpose of calling attention to certain valuable facts and for the fur ther purpose of warning against cer- tain errors. No articles which have been printed and no sermons which have been preached recently have been the occasion of these sermons, but they are preached by me because of the in- terest now existing in the subjects themselves.
 I have selected the first text, We know in part" because 1t calls atten- ton to the very important fact that our knowledge is limited. This Is true of our knowledge in every direction. We are frequently told that we must be scientific and that what is not sci entifc, i. e. what has not been veri- fled in what is included in the term science is not true. Science is simply as the word shows-what men know. But the limit of what any one man knows or of what all men know Is, probably. not the limit of all truth. We know In part"
 One of the most common errors in the world is that of taking the part for the whole. There are some persons who say that there Is nothing which affects what we call soul save states of the body, in fact, that what we call soul is only certain conditions and states of what we call matter. There are persons who say that what we call body is affected by nothing but by soul, in fact, that the body is nothing but states of soul regarded as exter- nal to the soul in our thinking.
 Now such is the vitality and value of truth that a great truth can carry with it a vast amount of error. There is, perhaps, no philosophical belief and no religious creed which has helo the confidence and controlled the con duct of any considerable body of men for any great length of time which has not in 1t great, vital, truth But with this truth. there Is frequently much error.
 Health is essential to human welfare and there are very many persons and societies now engaged in promoting health or in claiming so to do Most of these have a philosophy of the es sence of being and many of them have religious creed One of the most re. cent of these which I have noticed i! that of man by the name of McCon- nell who is lecturng to promote his system who .affirms that "The human body is a great voltaic battery anc that 'fElectricity cures all diseases. , Another movement which is growins and awakening interest is that of cer tain churches which are undertaking to cure some disorders by means O mental and spiritual treatment. A there are so many ways of treatint sickness and as so many persons ge forms of treatment, perhaps it nigh be well to conclude that man is 2 complex being who may be injured ant who may be benefited in many ways This would seem to be reasonable be lief.
 The second test which l have select ed affirms that if man has in hin the Spirit which raised up Jesus iron the dead, this Spirit will quicken tha mans mortal body. The context show, that in Paul's conception such a maI will conquer death and share the i'm mortality of Christ. But l have select ed the text because 1t affirms the fac that the spirit affects the body and may quicken or increase its vitalit, and implies-taken with the context that it may shape its ultimate form The spirit of man affects his body And that spirit inspired by the in dwelling of the Spirit of God-which il great fact of the Christian faith can give life to the body,
 The effect of the soul upon the bod, is most apparent. The brevity of sermon limits me to few illustra tions. A modest, diffident, self-con- scious, boy or girl will. blush in th' presence of strangers. The self-con- scious emotion will send the blood tG the surface and the blood flashes red through tbe skin Anger will spreat pallor over the face, the spiritual emo tion sending the blood from the sur face of the body. The changing emo tions of the soul express themselve visibly in the changing expressions 0 face. Pleasure will soften the face int a genial smile and a firm determine tion will knit it into hardness of fea