Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-23
Dr. Tut GiUes Lecture
On christian Science;
The LeaUen OF Spirit

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the limitations of matter. was the Sci
ence of Christ Jesus; Christian theo-
lo8y. without scholastic Dogma. was
the religion OF Christ Jesus: Christian
healing, without materia medical was
the medicine Of Christ Jesus. \
1t will be understood that Christian
Science does not come to destroy sci
ence. theology, and medicine, but
rather tosleavsn the human concept of
them. It comes to purge out the old
lump, In the leavsning. science is
cleansed of the misconcepts OF creed
and dogma. and medicine is relieved
Of matter and properly related to
Mind. Thus STANDARDIZATION OF thought
raises the concepts Of science, thee.
logy, and medicine to. q higher basis.
reveals them to be in truth modes Of
divine Mind, and restores them in
human consciousness 8 to their riEhtful
place. from which material theories
have debased them. &
The Iaaaven In Medicine. %t;
Nowhere. Is the Kaleidoscope char
acter of the human mind to be OBJ
serve more strikingly than in the his
tory Of material medicine. In my senior
year in medical college, I was required
to devote much study to THE Prin-
ciples and Practice Of Medicine A
better term. for the subject would have
Medicine for 1900" Material medi-
cine has always been in a state Of lux,
because 1T has never of itself, risen. in
theory or practice, above matter.
Even when the matter physician dis
courses l%earnediy on mind and deals
with psycho-analysis, psycho-neurosia,
psycho-theropy, and psycho-what> not,
he deals none the less with matter,
for to the materialist, mind means
little else than brain matter. While
the materialist. has not yet learned
tina matter and moral mind are one,
nevertheless the healing art is draw
ing nearer the truth as revealed in
Christian Science. Progressive ply
sicians. in practice, are steadily reduc-
ing 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. l
clared that a pnysic and a pain-re-
lever comprised their entire materia
medica. 1t is evident that II one can
reduce the pharmacopoeia in practice
m or two remedies, he can take
the next step and eliminate the drug
entirely from medical practice.
It may be argued that God placed
here and endowed. them with
healing power. When did Spirit. God.
delegate to matter divine power ?
Material medicine did not qualify for
Christian healing in Jesus day. He
ignored it and turned instead to pure
ly spiritual means. Could Jesus in his
wisdom. consistently have chosen an
|,unscientific, and hence untrue, meth
cd with which to prove his wondrous
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 ase of healing by material
means. Even SC today material medi-
cine falls to qualify. 1t ia not the
Christ method Of healing. Nothing
spiritual can come out of q wholly
material system. and material medi-
cine is such. Indeed. not one spiritual
quality does it embody in it's theory
or require in its practice. The very
away from the spiritual. Who has
ever found soul or spirit in the dis
secting room. on the operating table,
or under the microscope? ! am aware
that many noble men! and women, true
Christians, are in the medical pro
fession. To them all honor and
respect! For it is obvious that these
are S0cn, not ecau3 or, but in spite
of their professional training
If you were to ask any medical en-.
Tthusiast 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 any
thing. to be medicine, must first be
regarded as such, medicine is mental
not material. Therefore preventive
medicine begins with Mind. Mrs. Eddy
was the first in this age to. proclaim
and to demonstrate hat health is q
state Of Mind, not a state Of matter;
that to produce and maintain q well
body, it is necessary first to have q
sound mind. She taught that all
sickness is based in thought-contam-
i%nation, that people who think cleanly
and correctly live that way and are
proportionately immune from disease
She taught true sanitation to be clean
Illness Of mind and body, true hygiene