East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-30


good? Men are cariRz Tess for docttlhs
and more for dseSs Material forms and
observances are becoming more ana more
secondary to spiritual -nderstanldng
witnessed in signs following. =" you
realize that progressive thought In :
churches today is accepting, by little anu
| by little, those ideals which zone
woman. a half century ago, proclaimed
10 an unheeding world? Then theolosy
| listened only to scoff and 10 persecutc'
| Today though not yet recognizing the
| fact, II has begun 70 follow, however
haltingly, the trail she blazed. Can you
| doubt that the day will come when the
| last Of scholasticism shall have disap-
| peared from the leavened lump OF the
Ology? Then the Christian Science text
book may be read from orthodox put
| pits. even as now it Is not uncomIaOny
| eagerly read in pastors studies: Insh
| Christian sermons viii heal the SICK.
Then will end forever the division INTO
denominations and the Chutcn ul-
umphant will appear, In the elimination
OF material theories and dependencies.
In that day Of spiritual predominanee
| the churches will understand what Mfs'
Eddy meant when she wrote: Il love
| the orthodox church. and, in time, that
church win love Christian Science.
| (AIis. p. Ill. 2j-27.)
THE LEAvEN IN MEDICINE.
Nowhere is the Kaleidoscope charac-,
ter OF the human mind to be observed
more strikingly than in the history OF
material medicine. In my senior year
| in medical college, l was required TO de,
vote much study to THE Principles anu
Practice OF Medicine" A better term
for the subject would have been, Ihe
Principles and Practice of Medicine Tor
1900" Material medicine has always
been in a state OF flux because 1t has
never OF itself risen, IN theory or prac-
tice, above matter Even when the mat
ter physician discourses learnedly on
mind and deals with psycho-analysIs;
psyche neurosis, psychO-therapy, ana
psyche what not, he deals none the less
with matter, for to the materialst. mind
means little else than brain-matter.
While the materialist has not yet learned
that matter and mortal mind are one,
nevertheless the healing art is drawing
nearer the truth as revealed in Chris
tian Science. Progressive physicians. IN
practice, are steadily reducing their le-
gion OF remedies. Many doctors edmlt
that there is no specific medicine, Many
boast that they limit ;GsiT practice to
four or five drugs ] have even known
physicians who declared that physlc
and a pain-reliever comprised their en-
tire materia medica. II is evident that
II one can reduce the pharmacopoela
in practice to one or two remedies. he
can take the next step and eliminate
the drug entirely from medical practlce;
II may be argued that God placed
drugs here and endowed them with neal
gate TO matter divine power? Material
medicine did not qualify for Christie :
| healing in Jesus cay. He ignored y
and turned instead TO purely spiritual
| means Could Jesus in his wisdom con-
| sistentIy have chosen an unscientiiic,
and hence untrue, method with which 10
prove his wonderous power TO neal !
| Moreover, Jesus was not alone IN ms
| Christian practice. The Bible is full oi
| the teaching and practice OF spiritual
hut naReS
| in vain for an authentic case Of healing
| BY material means. Even SO today ma =
terial medicine fails TO qualify. II IS
| not the Christ method Of healing. Noth-
| ing spiritual can come out Of a wholly
material system, and material medicine
| Is such. Indeed. not one spiritual auai-
| ity does IL embody in its theory or re-
| quire in its practice. The very study oil
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
| | am aware that many noble men and
| women, true Christians. are in the med
icai profession. To them all honor and
| respect For it is obvious that these
| are SUCH not because Of. but in spite
of their professional training.
! II you were to ask any medical en-
| thusiaSt TO name the greatest scientific
| achievement of the age, doubtless he
| would say: Preventive medicine" Now
| with that Christian Science agrees but
| points out that, since anything. to be
| medicine, must first be regarded as such.
medicine is mental. not material There
| fore preventive medicine begins with
Mind Mrs. Eddy was the first in TINS
age to proclaim and to demonstrate that
health Is a state OF Mind, not a state
of matter; that to produce and maintain
well body. it is necessary first TO
sickness is based in thought -contamina- :
ton, that people who think cleany and
correctly live that way and are proper
tionately immune from disease. She
taught true sanitation to be cleanliness
of mind and body. true hygiene TO be
morality. true physiology to be spiritual
ity. These she recognized to constitute
public health. As for sO-called com
municabe diseases, Mrs. Eddy required
strict obedience to quarantine regula-
tions. respecting not only the law of the
land, but public sentiment also. Never
theless she knew that the only real
germ is the germ of spiritual Truth,
which when cultured in human con-
sciousness, never ceases its growth till
the whole lump of mortal thought is
spiritualized and mans true sef-hood
appears. This germ is highly infectious
and contagious. yet IL produces, not dis
ease, but health, not discord, but mar
mony, not death, but life.
But you say, how can one question the
germ theory Of disease when one may
readily see the actual germ under the
microscope? The germ theory is not
provable by the microscope any more
surely than a mirage of the desert
would be established as a reality because
seen through a telescope. Neither mag
nifying nor minimizing error can make
il true
has arisen the usual failure of the doc
tors to agree. A famous military sur
geon recently is reported to have said
that the more bacteria one breathed, the
bcause the immunity established
through the system becoming accustomed
TO foul conditions. In other words TO
become immune from disease. get on IA
miliar terms with disease germs Fa-
miliaritv with bacteria, il seems. breeds
not only contempt hut immunity. New
ertheless, such immunity is not material
after all. but mental That would seem
to he borne out by the fact that ply
sicians rarely take the diseases with
which they are thrown. CThey almost
never take their own medicineD
Again. a class of investigators, NUM-
bering representatives of the Public
Health Service, and many scientists
from our great universities, enter
complete denial Of the germ theory, sub
stituting therefor the worm theory
These scientists aver that so-called germ
diseases are in reality worm diseases ana
already the lengthy list of vegetable
bacteria is paralleled by a repiacer set OF
animal worms There would seem to be
small choice between being consumed by
Germs or eaten by worms, but this mno-
We ton IN medical theories presents an
other realicnment OF the medical kaleid-
oscoue
The facts are that just as the atomic
theory gave place to changing thought,
embodied in the theory that matter Is
electricity or holes in the ether, and thus
prefiEurcd further and more nearly tinal
theories so has the germ theory OF DIS
ease begun to disntegate, under the
restfveness Of the material scientist
thirst for ultimate knowledge. \ short
time ago. it was considered folly to chai- /
lenge the germ theory To-day. We have
actually arrived at its breaking up.
Their are large ami gIoWing numoefs