SELF CULTURE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 830, 31 May 1910, Page 3

SELF CULTURE.

LECTUEE BY REV. M. WALKER. A lecture on the subject of "Healthy Minds and Classic Bodies: How to Obtain Them;" was delivered by the B-ev. M. Walker in the Masonic Hall last evening. The speaker said that there wore stages in the development of every good and useful system of thought, or discovery, or law. At first, people said that it was contrary to common sense, then they asserted that it was opposed to divine revelation,* and later they remarked, "It is all right; we knew it all the time." Mental science, so people "said, was opposed to reason, then it was opposed to the Bible, but now medical men said, "Wo.are indebted to mental healiug. We knew it was good,_and we want to take it for ourselves now." The third stage had been reached, and mental science was part of tho curriculum of every university. Thought was a powerful factor in tTio development of the human body; it was the very basis of occult development. Mind, heart, and spirit received impressions through the body. It was a sin not to develop one's body to the best of one's ability. Neglect of the body fostered evil.' Tho general belief had been that the frontal lobes of the brain were the chief seat of thought, but now it was held by mental healers that the pituitary body \ras the centre of thought. That organ was a perfect guide to health. It had been proved by a doctor in Philadelphia that the frontal convolutions of the brain might be removed, and . the patient might still live and be conscious. Doctors had wondered, also what vere the functions of the thyroid gland, enlargement of which meant goitre. It was now believed that the thyroid gland secreted a substance which ultimately formed the white cells, making up 70 per cent, of tho blood, constituting therefore a most powerful agent' for the resistance of disease. A sensation felt by the pituitary body was telegraphed to tho thyroid gland, and to the adrenal gland, whose secretions increased and waged war against the threatened disease. This knowledge meant a deathblow to the wholesale use of drugs, the unresponsiveness and weak condition of these important organs frequently being caused by overdosing with physic. There were, therefore, a doctor and a chemist in tho system, which, if : allowed to do their work, would keep the body perfectly ■healthy. Turning to matters of diet, Mr Walker expressed the opinion thai 999 people out of. 1000 ought to reduce themselves to two meals per day, and also reduce the quantity of food takon at these meals by at least one-halt". He advocated tho "no-breakfast" plan, and urged that less meat should be eaten, that children should be better cared for, that the principles of bathing, ventilation, and furnishing of sleeping apartments, mental preparedness for sleep, auto-suggestion, deep breathing, cultivation of the "health habit," and freedom from, worry. The. lecturer answered numerous questions on astrology, and memory- training, and other subjects.