ny a nervous illness and many a wretched
existence.

The happiness which is found in the recognition of kinship with God,
through the common things of life, in the experiences which are so
significant that they could not spring from a lesser source, the
happiness which is not sought, but which is the inevitable result of
such recognition--this experience goes a long way toward making life
worth living.

If we do have this conception of life, then some of the old, old
questions that have vexed so many dwellers upon the earth will no longer
be a source of unhappiness or of illness of mind or body. The question
of immortality, for instance, which has made us afraid to die, will no
longer be a question--we shall not need to answer it, in the presence of
God, in our lives and in the world about us. We shall be content finally
to accept whatever is in store for us--so it be the will of God. We may
even look for something better than mere immortality, something more
divine than our gross conception of eternal life.

This is a religion that I believe medical men may teach without
hesitation whenever the need shall arise. I know well enough that many a
blunt if kindly man cannot bring himself to say these words, even if he
believes them, but I do think that in some measure they point the way to
what may wisely be taught.

There is a practice of medicine--the common practice--that is concerned
with the body only, and with its chemical and mechanical reactions. We
can have nothing but respect and admiration for the men who go on year
after year in the eager pursuit of this calling. We know that such a
work is necessary, that it is just as important as the educational
practice of which I write. We know that without the physical side
medicine would fail of its usefulness and that disease and death would
reap far richer harvests: I only wish the two naturally related aspects
of our dealing with patients might not be so completely separated that
they lose sight of each other. As a matter of fact, both elements are
necessary to our human welfare. If medicine devotes itself altogether to
the cure and prevention of physical disease, it will miss half of its
possibilities. It is equally true that if we forget the physical
necessities in our zeal for spiritual hygiene, we shall get and deserve
complete and humiliating failure. Many men will say, "Why mix the two?
Why not let the preachers and the philosophers preach and the doctors
fo