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Rh them for medical use, then why did Jesus not employ them and recommend them for the treatment of disease? Matter is not self-creative, for it is unintelligent. Mortal mind confers the only power a drug can ever possess.

Narcotics quiet mortal mind, and so reach the body but leave both mind and body the worse for this

submission. Christian Science impresses the entire mental strata, namely, mind and body, and brings out the proof that Life is continuous and harmonious. Science both amputates error and destroys it. Mankind is the better for this sincere and profound surgery.

The profession of medicine originated in idolatry, with pagan priests, who besought the gods to heal the

sick, and designated Apollo as the God of Medicine. He was supposed to dictate the first prescription, according to the History of Four Thousand Years of Medicine. It is here noticeable that Apollo was also regarded as the sender of disease. Hippocrates turned from image-gods to vegetable and mineral drugs for healing. This was deemed progress; but really, it only introduced another form of mythology and pagan worship. The future fate and history of material medicine will correspond with that of its material god, Apollo, who was banished from Heaven, and endured great sufferings on earth.

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine Mind, and its

power to heal. It is pitiful to lead men into temptation through the byways of physiology and materia medica, — to victimize the race with