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recognizing the fact, it has begun to follow, however haltingly, the trail l she blazed. Can you doubt that the day will come when the last of scholasticism shall have disappeared from the leavened lump of theology? ? Then the Christian Science textbook may be read from orthodox pulpits even as it is not uncommonly eagerly read in pastors studies. Then ! Christian sermons will heal the sick. Then will end forever the division | into denominations and the Church | triumphant will appear. in the elini- nation of material theories and de- | pendencies. In that day of spiritual l predominance the church will under | stand what Mrs. Eddy meant when l she wrote: T love the orthodox | church; and, in time, that church will love Christian Science" (Mis., | p. Ill 25-27.)
 THE HEAVEN IN MEDICINE
 1 Nowhere is the kaleidoscopic char
 acter of the human mind to be ob- served more stri1ingly than in the history of material medicine. In my senior year in medical college, I was l required to devote much study to
 "The Principles and Practice of Med | icine." A better term for the sub i ject would have been, "The Principles | anu OI MtdlClllG lOI 4oON- 1 Material medicine has always been
 in a state of Aux, because 1t has 1 never of itself risen, in theory or | practice. above matter. Even when
 the matter physician discourses | learnedly on mind and deals with psycho- analysis, psyche neurosis, psycho- therapy, and psycho-what | not, he deals none the less with mat
 ter, for to the materialist mind
 means little else than brain matter. | While the materialist has not yet
 learned that matter and mortal mind i are one, nevertheless the healing art is drawing nearer the truth as re-
 vealed in Christian Science. Progress
 i've physicians, in practice, are steadi- ly reducing their legion of remedies.
 Many doctors admit that there Is
 no specific medicine. Many boast
 that they limit their practice to four
 or five drugs. I have even known physicians who declared that phys
 ic and a pain -reliever comprised their
 entire materia medica. It is evident
 that if one can reduce the pharma-
 copoeia in practice to one or two
 remedies. he can take the next step
 and eliminate the drug entirely from
 medical practice.
 It may be argued that God placed
 drugs here and endowed them with
 healing power. When did Spirit.
 God. delegate to matter divine power?
 Material medicine did not qualify for 1 Christian healing in Jesus day. lie
 ignored it and turned instead to pure
 ly spiritual means. Could Jesus in
 his wisdom consistently have chosen
 an unscientific, and hence untrue.
 method with which to prove his won
 derous power to heal? Moreover.
 Jesus was not alone in his Christian
 practice The Bible is full of the
 teaching and practice of spiritual
 healing, but you will search its pages
 in vain for an authentic case of heal
 ing by material means. Even so to-
 day material medicine fails to quail
 fy. It is not the Christ method of healing Nothing spiritual can come
 out of wholly material system, and material medicine is such. Indeed
 not one spiritual quality does it em- body in it's theory or require in its practice. The very study of material
 medicine leads one away from the
 spiritual. Who has ever found sou
 or spirit In the dissecting room, on
 the operating table, or under the
 microscope? I am aware that many noble men and women. true Chris tians, are in the medical profession
 To them all honor and respect! F'oi
 it is obvious that these are such, moi
 because of, but in spite of their pro- fessional training.
 If you were to ask any medical en-
 thusiast to name the greatest scien' tific achievement of the age, doubt
 less he you'd say: Preventive medi-
 cine" Now with that Christian Science agrees, but points out that since anything, to be medicine. mus first be regarded as such, medicine | fa1 1 far-iaI rThnTafnrf I preventive medicine begins witf , Mind. Mrs. Eddy was the first 1T 2 i this age to proclaim and to demon , strate that health is a state of Mind not a state of matter: that to pro duce and maintain a well body. 1t i. necessary first to have a sound mind, 9 She taught that all sickness is based - In thought t-contamination, that peo pie who think cleanly and correctl! . live that way and are proportionatelI 7 immune from disease. She taugh 3 true sanitation to be cleanliness O I mind and body. true hygiene to b' l. morality. true physiology to be spiri- . tuality. These she recognized uC 9 constitute public health. As for so- . called communicable diseases, Mrs ! Eddy required strict obedience t, ] quarantine regulations. respectini . not only the law of the land. but pub ! : knew that the only real germ is tn e germ of spiritual Truth, which whel h cultured in human consciousness y never ceases its growth till the whol e lump of material thought Is spiri tualized and mans true self hood ap p pears. This germ is highly infec Q tious and contagious, yet it produces not disease, but health. not discorC e but harmony, not death. but life. n But you say. how can one questio e the germ theory of disease when on n may readily see the actual germ un = der the microscope? The germ theory s. is not provable by the microscope an q more surely than a mirage of tn I, desert would be established as s. reality because seen through a tele IS scope. Neither magnifying nor min '- imizing error can make it true.
 o As to the germ theory of diseas -s there has arisen the usual failure '- the doctors to agree. A famous mil 2, itary surgeon recently is reporte
 to have said that the more bacteri
 one breathed, the less liable on
 would become to disease. because ( l. the immunity established through tn
 system becoming accustomed to for } conditions. In other words. to be
 come immune from disease, get O familiar terms with disease germ Ie Familiarity with bacteria, it seem >, breeds not only contempt hut i'm II nlunity Nevertheless, such immun = itv is not material, after all. bJ ~ mental. That would seem to |
 borne out by the fact that physi
 clans rarely take the diseases wit - which they are thrown. CThey al