South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-03
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE

acter OF the human mind 10 be OBJ
served more strikingly than in the
history or material medicine In
my senior year IN medical college. I
was required 10 devote much study
To- THE Principles and Practice of
Medicine" a better term for the
subject would have been. THE
Principles and Practice OF Medicine
for 1900" Material medicine has al
ways been in = state Of flux because
10 has never Of itself risen. In theory
or practice. above matter Even
when the matter physician discour-
ses learnedly on mind and deals with
p s. o-auaiysis. psychO-neurOsis,
psycho-tnerapy. and psycho-what
not. he deals none the less with mat
ter for to the materiallst, 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 re-
vealed iu Christian Science. Pro-
grcssive physicians, in practice. are
steadily 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. 1 have even
known physicians who declared that
a physic and a paln-reliever COM
prised their entire materia medica.
It Is evident that If one can reduce
the pharmacOpOeia in practice to
one or two remedies. he can take the
next step and eliminate the drug en-
tireIy from medical practice.
II may De argued that God placed
drugs here and endowed them with
healing power When did Spirit.
God, delegate to matter divine pow
er? Material medicine did not quail
ify for Christian healing in Jesus
day. He ignored il and turned in
stead to purely spiritual means.
Could Jesus in his wisdom consist
entity have chosen an unscienufic.
and hence untrue method with
which 70 prove his wonderous power
20 heal2 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 healing by mater
ial means Even so today material
medicine fails 10 qualify. 1t is not
the Christ method Of healing. Moth
ing spiritual can come out OF a who'll
Is material system. and material
medicine is such. Indeed. not one
spiritual quality does II embody in
its theory or require in its practice.
The very study of material medicine
leads one away from the spiritual.
Who has ever found soul or spirit in
the dissecting room, on the operating
table, or under the microscope? I
am aware that many noble men and
women. true Christians. are in the
medical 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.
If you were 10 ask any medical
enthusiast to name the greatest sci
entific achievement OF the age,
doubtless he would say: Proven
tive medicine" Now with that
/ Christian Science agrees, but points
out that. since anything. TO be medi-
cine 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 DEM
Onstrate that health is a state OF
Mind, not a state OF matter; that TO
produce and maintain a we'll body.
! Il is necessary drst 10 have a sound
mind She taught that all sickness
is based in thought contamination
that people who think cleanly and
! correctly live that way and are pro-