Evening star., 1921-03-09
MATERIAL CURES
CALLED OBSOLETE
Christian Science Preacher
! Advocates Clean Thought
! to SuppIant Medicine.

Nowhere is the Kaleidoscope charac-
ter of the human mind to be observed
more strikingly than in the history of
material medicine. said DR.. John NJ.
Tut, member of the board of lecture
ship of the mother church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist. in Boston,
Mass, in a lecture on Christian Science
at First Church Of Christ, Scientist last
evening.
IN my senior year in medical col
lege I was re. uired. the lecturer add
ed. Ito devote much study to 'TnN frin-
ciples and Practice of Medicine. y
better term for the subject would have
been The Principles and Practice or
Medicine for 1909. Material medicine
has always been in state OF lux. be
cause it has never Of itself risen IN
theory or practice, above matter. Even
when the matter physician diScourSeS
learned'y on mind and deals with pSy-
oanalySis. pSyCho-neurosis, psyche
therapv and pSyCho-what not. he deals
with matter for the materlalISt mind
means littI" else than brain matter,
continued DR. Tut.
The abandonment Of the germ theory
will mark the end of the fear of con-
tagion and preventive medicine and pub
lie health Will he established TO be
cleanliness Of thought and action, the
only way To health and holiness. Ihe
hour will come for all. even as II is
now come with many when the divine
Mind win supplant matter in the treat
ncnt Of the sick. Even now. the neal
ing art is impregnated with the leaVen
OF Spirit.
Christian Science is illustrating the
inevitable reunion Of religion ana medl-
cine which must come 20 pass as both
advance into more spiritual latitudes.
There Will come Il day when the unity
of health and holiness VIII appear.
Then religion at the Sickbed VIII no
longer be helpless then the pastor MAX
ing his rounds will no longer delegate
half his office to the medical practi-
toner. Then Christ will be seen to be
not only the head of the church. as
Paul declares. but also. as he goes on
to say. the Savior of the body
what shall we say of the discoverer
of Christian Science, OF the founder oil
the movement, of her who is today, as
she has been from the beginning. its
inspired leader? What shall We say of
that good and pure woman, that Mary
who echoed the cry of the prophet Of
old: Revive thy work. O Lord in the
midst Of the years make known
Through her inspiration and devotion:
to multitudeS the way of health and
holiness has been made known. in desc
late hearts the work of righteousness
has been revived. Mary Baker Eddy,
frail of body. though strong in spirit, at
the age OF forty-five, viewed not her life
in retrospect, but with forward vision
entered with eagerness upon life of
unremitting toll in the service of hu-
manity.
Because of ignorance. the earliest
concepts of God involved fear. taboo
and penalty. The basis of scholastic
theology was God as a punisher OF man.
Whatever the concept of God. He was
always a terrible Being to be feared and
hence 10 be, if possible. appeased.
Because of the prescription of love.
some of the biackest crimes of love,
some of the blacl;est crimes in history
have been committed in the name of
Deity. The practice of religion has al
ways tended toward discipline. toward
the citation to love. obey and serve God
through the exercise of fear of punish
ment In consequence of this false be-
lief of Deity, men have had little faith
in good in health and well being as the
natural sequence of events under God
care and government. but have shown
unbounded and ever present expectation
of evil
"Why do not people expect naturally
the unfoldment of good in their expe-
rience? II is because of the human
minds educated belief that the supreme
power. God. is a wreaker of vengeance.
visitor OF iniqCity.'
DR. Tut who spoke under the aus
pices of the First Church of this city.
.. was introduced by Mrs. Harriet Hitch
cock, second reader of that church.