llow their own ways?" For the most part this may have to be the
arrangement, but the doctor who can see and treat the spiritual needs of
his patient will always be more likely to cure in the best sense than
the doctor who sees only half of the picture. On the other hand, the
philosopher is likely to be a comparatively poor doctor, because he
knows nothing of medicine, and so can see only the other half of the
picture. There is much to be said for the religion of medicine if it can
be kept free from cant, if it can be simple and rational enough to be
available for the whole world.

III

THOUGHT AND WORK

I wish I had a trade!--It would animate my arms and tranquilize
my brain.
SENANCOUR.

"Doe ye nexte thynge."--_Old English Proverb_.

Since our minds are so constantly filled with anxiety, there would seem
to be at least one sure way to be rid of it--to stop thinking.

A great many people believe that the mind will become less effective,
that life will become dull and purposeless, unless they are constantly
thinking and planning and arranging their affairs. I believe that the
mind may easily and wisely be free from conscious thought a good deal of
the time, and that the greatest progress and development in mind often
comes when the thinker is virtually at rest, when his mind is to all
intents and purposes blank. The busy, unconscious mind does its best
work in the serenity of an atmosphere which does not interfere and
confuse.

It is true that the greatest conceptions do not come to the untrained
and undisciplined mind. But do we want great conceptions all the time?
There is a technical training for the mind which is, of course,
necessary for special accomplishments, but this is quite another matter.
Even this kind of thought must not obtrude too much, lest we become
conscious of our mental processes and so end in confusion.

One of the greatest benefits of work with the hands, or of objective and
constructive work with the mind, is that it saves us from unending hours
of thinking. Work should, of course, find its fullest justification as
an expression of faith. If we have ever so dim a vision of a greater
significance in life, of its close relationship to infinite things, we
become thereby conscious of the need of service, of the need of work. It
is the easy, natural expression of our faith, the inevitable result of
a spiritual contact with the great working forces of the wo