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to heal. When his students brought to him a case they
had failed to heal, he said to them, "O faithless generation,"
"implying that the requisite power
to heal was in Mind. He prescribed no drugs,
urged no obedience to material laws, but acted in direct
disobedience to them.
(The man of anatomy and of theology)
Neither anatomy nor theology has ever described man
as created by Spirit, - as God's man. The former explains
the men of men, or the "children of
men," as created corporeally instead of spiritually
and as emerging from the lowest, instead
of from the highest, conception of being. Both
anatomy and theology define man as both physical and
mental, and place mind at the mercy of matter for every
function, formation, and manifestation. Anatomy takes
up man at all points materially. It loses Spirit, drops the
true tone, and accepts the discord. Anatomy and theology
reject the divine Principle which produces harmonious
man, and deal - the one wholly, the other primarily
- with matter, calling that man which is not the counterpart,
but the counterfeit, of God's man. Then theology
tries to explain how to make this man a Christian, - how
from this basis of division and discord to produce the concord
and unity of Spirit and His likeness.
(Physiology deficient)
Physiology exalts matter, dethrones Mind, and claims
to rule man by material law, instead of spiritual. When
physiology fails to give health or life by this
process, it ignores the divine Spirit as unable
or unwilling to render help in time of physical need.
When mortals sin, this ruling of the schools leaves them
to the guidance of a theology which admits God to be
the healer of sin but not of sickness, although our great
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