THE CALL OF THE LAND 



the heart are the issues of life, not out of 

 the lungs. 



Rightly viewed even a physician's work 

 is religious in its way. In medieval times 

 man's salvation began with the soul. Clear- 

 ing the path of obstacles to this objective 

 involved endless flesh renunciations and 

 macerations. Fasting, the horsehair shirt, 

 ashes, the self-inflicted scourge, crawling 

 on knees to shrines, and various other 

 species of flesh abnegation were intended to 

 subdue and refine the physical body so the 

 spiritual light within might blaze forth. 

 The modern redeemer, working in the light 

 of biology, inverts this order. Basing his 

 practice on the principle of evolution, he 

 seeks not death but life and growth, begin- 

 ning with the material organism and await- 

 ing spiritual florescence to result in time. 

 His guide in this is the great Healer, who, 

 as prelude to or part of a gospel for souls, 

 fed the hungry, made the lame to walk and 

 the blind to see. That method of redemp- 

 tion, beginning with the flesh, a method 

 natural, rational and effectual, is the one 



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