Article April 8, 1939 Issue

Spiritual Healing Inseparable from True Christianity

OSCAR GRAHAM PEEKE

For many centuries mankind has been searching deeply in the realm of matter for ways and means both to prevent and to cure sickness and disease. In ancient times the curative methods were extremely crude; it is recorded, however, that in some cases where they were used the patients recovered. Also, in later times cures are said to have been brought about through the use of concoctions which today would be considered far more likely to cause disease than to cure it. All such cases indicate that the recoveries were due primarily to the patient's faith in the medicine, or in the doctor, or in both. In these present times it is pleasant to know that a great many medical doctors declare the less drugging the better. Medical theories, moreover, regarding the treatment of disease are constantly changing, and what may be considered efficacious today is likely to be regarded as ineffective tomorrow.

The foregoing should not be construed as an attempt to disparage the work of honest men and women in the medical profession. The unselfish labor and self-sacrifice of a large number of these people should not be lightly regarded. The world profits by all unselfish endeavors, for right motives help to lead thought upward to the higher realm where God is understood as the Father of all, and man is cognized as His perfect likeness, always expressing the divine nature.

It is highly significant that today some of the more noted physicians are given much thought to the mental causes of disease. Some are stating that, even in what are termed malignant cases, the malady was induced by hatred, jealousy, malice, or some other wrong condition of thought. Assuredly this is a forward step. It is only a question of time when it will be generally recognized that discordant conditions of whatever nature are effects of false material thinking, and that harmony can be rightly established only by a correct understanding of God and of His spiritual and perfect creation. Material methods of treating disease cannot reach the mental cause of disease. Is it not, therefore, wise to consider to what extent, if any, these methods are governed by fixed rule? If subject to constant change are they not for the most part experimental?

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