MEDICINE AND MORALS 



adopted by this great evangelical agency the 

 medical profession. 



The scientific spirit, which, we have said, 

 physicians as a class possess in an eminent 

 degree, is itself a species of piety. We have 

 ceased to think. God a power outside of his 

 world, fingering, pushing, managing, as a 

 weaver his loom or an engineer his machine. 

 The physical world is the Godhead's living 

 robe. The universe is not a mass of God's 

 old works, finished, geared and wound up 

 six thousand or six million years ago; the 

 universe is a display of God's fresh works, 

 created moment by moment here and now. 



"There was never any more inception than there is now, 



Nor any more youth or age than there is now, 



And will never be any more perfection than there is 



now, 

 Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now." 



The creation of the world and the sus- 

 tenance of the world are identical acts. Of 

 course, Spirit is greater than matter. God 

 and world are no equation, not two mere 

 names for the same thing, like common salt 

 and chloride of sodium. Creator transcends 



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