Editorial September 18, 1909 Issue

"THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME"

John B. Willis

The average Christian believer has no difficulty in recognizing that there can be no element of evil in that infinite good which men call God, though he often fails to perceive that the manifestation of Spirit with the asserted power of matter is equally incongruous and impossible under any divine order. It has thus come about that the belief of the copartnership of the spiritual and the material has desecrated human thought since the time when Adam and Eve were assured by the serpent that the knowledge of this admixture would make them godlike.

The habit of consenting to the asserted fellowship of concepts which are opposed or even antagonistic to each other, exhibits itself in many ways, and nowhere with greater significance to human happiness than when it insists upon bringing drugs to the aid of Truth in order that the healing work which Christ Jesus instituted and demonstrated may be accomplished in our day. Progressive and truly humanitarian physicians have always been on the qui vive for any new remedial agency, but even they are balking at the idea that infinite Spirit should be classified with arsenic, belladonna, etc., as one of many available remedies.

In a medical journal which lies before us, the editor calls attention to some phases of the incongruity of that clerical effort which essays to weld the spiritual and material into a homogeneous therapeutic system. Respecting the inevitable clash between the two, he says:—

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