DRUGS AND FAITH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 12

DRUGS AND FAITH.

• I ['■ 'v : The Bjshop of- Carlisle. ijrcached lately In Liverpool. to' R lurgc. congregation .of toedical men, lie lamented tho severance* betweoti psy- , ohology:and : physiology, and' ventured' to say that the cult, called > Christian. Scicfic6 would never; have been possible, at leastvfrmong-sober and .-.thoughtful as distinct ■ fronKsensfttional hiid shallow wmnu. if both Christiohity and scicnco had ful died their and, had not .fallea lamentably. short 'of their highand noblo ciillinif; Christian Scie'nte- procliiimed l a fact, though in a' foolish,'frivolousdistorted, fashion, the - fact of tho 'almost .lmmonsurablo .influence of;mind oyer matter, of 'tho tliirit •over tho body.;:' By". its very I caricature of this ,fact. Christian Science had startled'it into ircsh i? fc this powerful fact that both tho Christian;; CiiUrch ,and..tho m ( dical profession had;,too. long'. neglected' or ighoud ■ The, flvoripokod its mission,to the bodies. of, meiy-and the medical piofession bad . been too materialistic: it-had dniipmfr,l too. niucb on drugs arid too lfttlo on- fchsonabla ia.th. Tho caricatures of Christian Scienbs. would not have been placed in'vain before th« yOl Id if pastor,s. and physician, Mould only earn to di.tinguish in thu„e , PIV the lineaments of the great undoiljiug though much ncglccted tilth that m u lO } lul ° nn matter was not only largely- controlled'but Was also; jntorponetrated. by ■ tho mind,- and that par .cu arfy m tho treatment of sickness the incdiral nan could and ought to b6 assisted hrst. by his; own pr,avers. ' . Ho behoved the prajor of faith nns nn lmiy aid of immense ya m- m tllo K .' f the sick. Let emy doctoj, therefore, and eien nuiso begin-and end cAeh day, cach consultation, each .opciation 111 th c h t mi t aud power ot prayer.. • • .