We have a beautiful idea of this word health, as the old Saxons spell it wholth, meaning, wholesoundness. Thus we see Jesus' meaning, where he so often uses the term, "Thy faith hath made thee whole." His healing was mental, moral, physical and spiritual; and as he demonstrated, for our example, "Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, take up thy bed and walk?" This plainly shows that the healer of the mind is the healer of the body.
Health must be one of the evidences of a Christian people, a church or community. Health obtained in this ethical manner is one of the most happy and heavenly states pertaining to Christianity, and how many we see when we visit their homes daily who do not possess this great blessing. There has been more talents and money used in the solution of this question and efforts to obtain this most desirable condition, Health, than for most other things. Many good and great men (to say nothing about the charlatans) have tried to throw light upon what they have made a difficult subject, namely, the cure of disease. And all because the healer of the physical was not the healer of the mental. Many of those earnest seekers have now found their light was darkness. The honest searchers after Truth have at last denounced their god of the healing art.
Dr. John Mason Good, late learned Professor of London, says, "The science of medicine is an unintelligible jargon, and the effects of our drugging medicine on the human system is in the highest degree uncertain, except, indeed, that it has already destroyed more lives than war, pestilence, and famine combined." While doctors are questioning and experimenting in the misty art, their passive patients are looking longingly up to them for advice and relief; but many are complaining like one of old, "I have suffered many things of many physicians and am nothing better," but rather grow worse; and their doctor replies, "I only gave them drugs to satisfy the patient's friends that they were having something done for them." How much better it would be if the humane physician, who would relieve human suffering, and has the lives of our dearest friends in his care, would accept the truth of mental healing, which is curing thousands who have availed themselves of it. What says the suffering victim of AEsculapius who has been a traveling apothecary and taken nearly every medical nostrum extant? Simply this, "How can I get well by your invisible, silent action of Mind, without any outward ceremony, or something that I can see or take with a spoon?" Yes, dear reader, but we can cure them; for the hour has come "when no sign shall be given" you.
