Gunnison news-champion., 1914-10-23
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street wno-e great sadsssos hae panssd
into prosere. Thsre wese shsss q
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famous through their genius. Eh.ss1is-
he'd with the eoacstIou Vt thsugs ss0uDd
them, they procesded to petsssoe fusas-
meut, aud IN their iaaasbse suxSety -
record the greatness Of ther psussst.
they announced themselves shs~. ''Ue,
the people Of England.
A generation, ss Lord hAcassay
might have said. which has accepted ~
statements Of the medical schools st
their face value, can afford to listen 10
an o.d-worid proverb. The thsSs
taiiors of Tooiey street assumed thssr
identity with the people of England for
the purpose of substsntiating the pro
priety of their appeal The medical
schools speak with equal assurance ef
health conservation and other ssch
terms for the purpose of convincing TIE
public that health conservation is sya-
onymous with the practice of medicine.
The insistsnce of sartorial Tooley street.
would have been unsnswersble had the
population of England been circum-
scribed by the three shops in question
The confidence of the medical scheDls
would be Justified if the practise of
medicine were indisputahly the prise
factor in the conservation of heabeA.
Unfortunately for the argument, the
one postulste is almost as polemicsl -
the ether.
The practice of medicine is ~ Old ~
the worship of Apollo, and that is say
ing q good deal. In all these centuries
the conservation Of health has hsen
assiduously pursued by means of reme-
dies which have been exalted by Vne
generation only to be disowned by a.
other The fifteenth century placed its
faith in cloths of red. The sixteeRtk
century rejoiced in powders made from
mummies. In the seventeenth ter
water rose, like the rocket, to be the
universal panacea, only to fall, like
the stick, TO the level of the humblest
drug in the phsrmacopoeia- Even in
the nineteenth century industrioss
efforts he'd to be made to compel the in
jectiea Of calf lympA, ssd 70 render
illegal inoculation end arm-to-a arm vac
cinstion by means of which earlier gen
erstions he'd been copulsorily healed.
Nov the physicians of the fifteenth
and following centuries were not more
certain that ''health conservation" was
dependent on red wool or mummy
powders, on tar water or inoculation,
thsn those Of the twentieth century are
that it is dependent on vsccines and
serums. Yet there 10 no security that
vscclnes will not 60 the way of red
cloth and serums the way Of tar water.
As . matter Of fact, everybody knows
quite well that doctors are already dis
agreeing on the question of the value of
both these remedies. In these circum-
stances it might be wiser not to beg the
question of what constitutes Health
conservation" too uncompromisingly.
Nineteen hundred years ago there
came, if there is any truth in Christian
ity at all, over the Galilean hills and
along the Jordol valley, the greatest
healer the world has ever seen, the
healer of Gennesaret. Disease and
death vanished before his word, and he
declared that they would vanish, during
all time, at the word of those who un-
derstood his teaching and walked in his
steps. In the mid nineteenth century
there came New England woman
teaching and proving the lesson that the
promises of the Galilean hillsides were
indestructible. Whether il is easier,
Jesus demanded, to say thy sins be for
given thee, or to say, arise and walk.
Jesus, writes Mrs. Eddy on page 2l0
of Science and Health, ''healed sin and
sickness by one and the same meta
physical process. That process is the
one and only scientific process of
''health conservation. 1t is, to ''let
this mind be in you. which was also in