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The effect of idleness upon the will, of a discouraging and unlovely health 

 resort on the spirits, of an empty outlook for the future — all these have been 

 largely disregarded. Put him in the open air, and fatten him up, we say, — 

 so far, so good. But he has a mind, as well as a body; a future, as well as a 

 present — and neither element can be neglected." 



Then, too, the study of the treatment and means of prevention of 

 the infections and degenerations, and the brilliancy of its results, have 

 tended to make us impatient with the less prompt response of the 

 neurotic. We medical men have been tempted to speak sternly, as did 

 the King in Alice in "Wonderland, who told the poor hatter, who was 

 trembling before the throne : " Don't be nervous, or I'll have you exe- 

 cuted on the spot." So we have been tempted to say to the unduly 

 nervous patient : " You are not sick ; don't be nervous, or you'll make 

 yourself sick " — good advice, but, like much that we have to listen to, 

 badly given. 



We must look deeper into the causes of the nervousness, and suggest 

 something to take their place. The profession is already awakening 

 to this defect in its practise, and one of the benefits of christian science 

 and the later movement is the stimulus which it has given the medical 

 profession, to take up again, in its new light, a work which it always 

 used to do, and which still is a part of its duty; a part of its very 

 raison d'etre. 



A recent editorial in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal says : 



That the profession at large needs instruction in the practise of psycho- 

 therapy we are willing to admit; we believe that such instruction should be 

 given at medical schools, to the end that the limitations as well as the possi- 

 bilities of mental treatment should be laid down, so far as our present knowl- 

 edge permits. 



The University of Wisconsin has already established a chair of 

 psychology and medicine; the Phipps fund of $500,000 will soon be 

 available for a similar course in the Johns Hopkins University, and 

 Dr. Morton Prince offers a course in psychotherapy this winter at the 

 Tufts Medical School. In the great field of hospital and dispensary 

 practise much has been accomplished in the same direction by the 

 introduction of the social-service department, as at the Johns Hopkins, 

 the New York Post-graduate and the Massachusetts General Hospitals. 



From these considerations I think there can be no doubt but that 

 the doctor has, can and ought to do this work; the next question is, 

 in how far it can and ought to be done by the church. We all agree 

 that the underlying causes in very many of these functional nervous 

 disorders are moral causes. We all recognize the strong religious side 

 in human nature. We have all seen in our own experience, or that of 

 some of our friends, the peace and satisfaction of mind to be derived 

 from a strong religious faith. 



It is a powerful force for the uplifting of man, mentally and morally. 



