WHEN will men, especially those whose ostensible purpose it is to conserve the health of the race, lay hold upon the simple, scientific fact that through sin death entered into the world, and that disease is therefore but the physical aggregate of antecedent wrong thinking on the part of the human family, which ultimates in material dissolution? It follows that the only radical cure for wrong thinking must lie in right thinking, comprehended in a general righteousness, and wrought out in daily living through intelligent observance of spiritually scientific postulates.
These are days of intensive medical exploitation on the part of certain autocratically inclined followers of the old school, despite the fact that epidemics and their stay are alike problematical to these gentlemen, and the so-called incurable diseases are still the bête noire of the profession. It is a bit exasperating, therefore, to have sent to one, nolens volens, the literature of a "Life Extension Institute," founded largely if, indeed, not entirely on a material conception of man and his well being.
The suggestion to establish "some central institute or organization," to quote from the propagandist advertisement at hand, is one which is persistently brought before the minds of the people by means of press and forum. The chief functions of such an institution, it would appear, would lie in impressing on the public the unseen, imminent danger, from a medical viewpoint, in which every man, woman, and child moves and has his being—Paul and the ever widening experience of attested Christianity to the contrary notwithstanding—and the molding of this same public for the prepared ministrations of the institute and its votaries.
