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the English poet, and there is truth in his sentiment. The
action of mortal mind on the body was not so injurious
before inquisitive modern Eves took up the
study of medical works and unmanly Adams
attributed their own downfall and the fate of their offspring
to the weakness of their wives.
The primitive custom of taking no thought about
food left the stomach and bowels free to act in obedience
to nature, and gave the gospel a chance to be seen
in its glorious effects upon the body. A ghastly array of
diseases was not paraded before the imagination. There
were fewer books on digestion and more "sermons in
stones, and good in everything." When the mechanism
of the human mind gives place to the divine Mind, selfishness
and sin, disease and death, will lose their
foothold.
Human fear of miasma would load with disease the
air of Eden, and weigh down mankind with superimposed
and conjectural evils. Mortal mind is the worst foe of
the body, while divine Mind is its best friend.
(Diseases not to be classified)
Should all cases of organic disease be treated by a
regular practitioner, and the Christian Scientist try
truth only in cases of hysteria, hypochondria,
and hallucination? One disease is no
more real than another. All disease is the
result of education, and disease can carry its ill-effects
no farther than mortal mind maps out the way. The
human mind, not matter, is supposed to feel, suffer,
enjoy. Hence decided types of acute disease are quite as
ready to yield to Truth as the less distinct type and chronic
form of disease. Truth handles the most malignant contagion
with perfect assurance.
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