A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 
To those who reject the Bible account of man’s creation, 
the necessity of medicine must be an enigma. Why, if man 
is now in the condition that God made him, did He make him 
subject to disease and death? The Bible alone explains what 
would be to us an inscrutable mystery. It tells us that God 
formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into 
his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul; 
then he had the perfection of innocence, and enjoyed the 
blessedness of walking with his Maker, who is the true source 
of happiness. How long he continued in this primeval state 
we do not know, but in an evil hour he disobeyed God, who 
expelled him from Eden’s happy bowers. Just here a 
disputed point of theology comes up, namely, was man made 
mortal or immortal, or has he an immortal soul. We believe, 
from a careful study of the Scriptures, that he was created 
mortal, that the tree of life would have constantly renewed 
his life if he had not sinned. Our reason for not believing in 
the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul, is because 
it is not said in any part of the Bible that the soul is immortal, 
but it very distinctly says in several parts that the soul can 
and will die. "We do not intend to discuss the point further, 
but if any of our readers desire it, we shall be happy to supply 
abundant proof for our belief inthe mortality of the soul. One 
thing is certain, that sin and suffering came into our world ; 
this being so, we have reason to thank God for giving us the 
means of cure. It may be affirmed that, notwithstanding 
man’s fallen condition in the primitive times, sickness was 
seldom felt ; the reason why is because he lived closer to nature 
and was free from hereditary taint. Previous to the deluge 
human life averaged ten times its present limits, but the 
written doom came at last and man returned to the dust out 
of which he was taken. A sad and gloomy prospect indeed 
if we had not the Divine assurance that though ‘‘a man dic 
yet shall he live again. The doctrine of a resurrection to an 
