Editorial May 16, 1901 Issue

Religion and Health

Editor

IN a recent sermon on the above subject a minister in a western city said:—

"The The relation of the mind to the body is very great, and often a willingness on the part of a person relieves him from a supposed illness, which in reality was only an hallucination. Back of this lies the fact that God acts through the mind upon the body. Therefore, there can be no higher purpose for the church than to help men to help themselves. The physician who renders the most good for his community is the one who goes about his work scientifically and religiously."

If it be true that "the physician who renders the most good for his community is the one who goes about his work scientifically and religiously," what shall be said of that teaching and practice which seeks to impress upon sick and sinful humanity, the eternal fact that God—divine Mind—is able to save to the uttermost? Is it not readily apparent that the greatest need of the world to-day, individually and collectively, is a more definite idea of what are to be regarded as the legitimate results of Christian living upon the health and morals of men ?

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