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"The highest qualification which a physician should possess is wisdom."-Paracelsus.

When new conditions arise it becomes necessary either to make new laws or to revise the statutes by amendment; otherwise, there could be no individual or national growth. We need frequently to recur to the fact that our government is for the whole people, and not for any favored class or organization. From the standpoint of the Government as a Unit, the One cannot discriminate against Itself. This is the essential principle of all judicial as well as ideal justice.

Indiscriminate denunciation invariably destroys the very germs of progress. progress. When Torquemada rushed into the presence of Ferdinand and Isabella and with fanatic fervor cried out: "Expel those who think! Compel those not to think who remain!" there followed the Inquisition, the burning of one hundred thousand volumes of Oriental literature, and eventually the downfall of Spain.

It has now become a self-evident fact that to think disease has increased the mortality. The mental practitioner claims the privilege of changing the mind and clothing it in the habiliments of health. Through this new disposition of thought metaphysics is recreating the world.

The freedom of choice and the wisdom of directing. thought into channels that are consciously selected is the key by which man, if he choose to do so, may coöperate with the

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Creator. It is very simple, so simple that "a child shall lead them," because innocence is the greater wisdom; but the working out of this ponderous problem of regeneration becomes very complex. As interest compounded upon degenerate conditions has created a degenerate world, so will interest compounded upon regenerate conditions create a regenerate world. This means not alone professing but living a regenerate life; not only theory but actual practise is obligatory before it is possible to acquire the healing power. Such practise involves

years of rigid, thorough, and systematic training. The grades of development should be classified as in any other profession, and the public should be protected from all uncertainty in the matter by some recognized standard of classification.

Mental therapeutics is the problem of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Its unit is the spark of divine Intelligence which inspires and animates all the operations of the human mind.

The power to think is the power that makes for civilization. The power to sustain a definite line of thought defines the difference between a weak mind and a strong mind. George Washington once said that "to think much of God is to become like God." All immortal minds have been developed by exercising their power to think. Intelligence utilized by thought and directed to a definite purpose has been the motive power of all science, discovery, and invention. To kindle the spark of intelligence in the human mind is "to light up the torch of divine revelation." When this spark of intelligence begins to play its wondrous powers upon the brain of any single individual, then we acknowledge a power that is more than human. God is not apart from the race but in the race, and the sacred fire of divine creative energy must be kindled and called forth. Then we recognize the Christ. The second coming of Christ is the recognition of a Principle, not a person; and to repudiate the power of that Principle is "the sin against the Holy Ghost;" while those who receive the outpouring of the Spirit are re

ceptive to the "peace that passeth all understanding.” This supreme standard of the Christ manifestation is the goal of attainment for the faithful metaphysician. The practise of mental therapeutics is therefore the intelligent exercise of the God-given faculties of the human mind; and let this be the test-that if the power be of God no legislation can stand against it, and if it be not of God it will fail.

The unwritten law is the ideal standard upon which all judicial justice is founded. The metaphysical principle of divine Intelligence and its activity as expressed in thought is an incontrovertible factor to the lawyer as well as to the physician; and the day is not far distant when the problem of administering justice will be solved by metaphysical methods, and the knotty question of human rights will be coöperatively untangled.

The tendency is for the doctor to become, as he was of old, a teacher and trainer of the mental capabilities. Until three hundred years after Christ the priest had the power to heal; but the "gift of healing" has since been lost to the Church, and from time to time any indications of its return have been met with bitter antagonism. The power and privilege of individual thought has been invariably condemned in order to preserve the authority of the institution. We find upon

the threshold of the modern institution a race of mental cowards. A soul that is starving for the nourishment of God's independent sunshine is a beggar, be he rich or poor, and such degenerates are sickly creatures whose bodies are like their souls. They are afraid of a draught, afraid of dampness, afraid of germs, microbes, contagions, and numberless invisible enemies that haunt the threshold of medical practise. use of drugs eventually becomes a form of idolatry. The compounding of love potions is a poor substitute for reality. We must remember that chemistry was derived from alchemy, and, however exact it may be as a science, its exactness has been established not so much by the power of the drug as by

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the popular confidence in the profession of medicine. No system of therapeutics was ever promulgated that was not first derived from and afterward sustained by mental action. It must follow, therefore, that the physician is greater than the means employed. The drug must assume comparative insignificance while the intelligence of the physician and the intent to heal become of supreme importance. According to Hahnemann, "the physician's high and only mission is to restore the sick to health."

Any system of therapeutics founded upon the classification of remedies can never become a science, for the obvious reason that such a system of dogmatic procedure invariably ignores the individual mind of both the patient and physician. A certain freedom of thought and receptivity to the promptings of divine Law must prepare the physician for his calling. The character of the physician-that is, the quality of his thought-is invariably the healing agency, as evidenced by the fact that cures are accomplished by directly opposite schools of practise; and when the intent to heal is lost to the profession there is a marked increase of doctors and diseases.

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Homeopathy minimized the drug to the uttermost. mental therapeutics the drug entirely disappears, while the intent to heal is regarded as of first importance and is systematically developed into a mental determination, an established habit, a pervading vital atmosphere, in which it is good to live and move and have one's being. Such a state of conscious being is maintained by wisdom, which means the knowledge and power of right resistance against the conditions that cause disease. To discriminate against the life of the patient by acknowledging his case to be hopeless would be equivalent to passing sentence of death. Life is the reward of wisdom. Life is both the physician and the remedy, and with renewed hope life ministers unto life in abundant supply. Hence the seriousness of pronouncing any disease incurable when the vital methods of healing have once been recognized.

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