ot only the blind received their
sight, the lame walked, the lepers were cleansed, the deaf heard, but
even the dead were raised up. No question of the mandate. He who went
about doing good was a physician of the body as well as of the soul, and
could the rich promises of the Gospel have been fulfilled, there would
have been no need of a new dispensation of science. It may be because
the children of this world have never been able to accept its hard
sayings--the insistence upon poverty, upon humility, upon peace that
Christianity has lost touch no less with the practice than with the
principles of its Founder. Yet, all through the centuries, the Church
has never wholly abandoned the claim to apostolic healing; nor is there
any reason why she should. To the miraculous there should be no
time limit--only conditions have changed and nowadays to have a
mountain-moving faith is not easy. Still, the possession is cherished,
and it adds enormously to the spice and variety of life to know that men
of great intelligence, for example, my good friend, Dr. James J. Walsh
of New York, believe in the miracles of Lourdes.(24) Only a few weeks
ago, the Bishop of London followed with great success, it is said, the
practice of St. James. It does not really concern us much--as Oriental
views of disease and its cure have had very little influence on
the evolution of scientific medicine--except in illustration of the
persistence of an attitude towards disease always widely prevalent,
and, indeed, increasing. Nor can we say that the medicine of our great
colleague, St. Luke, the Beloved Physician, whose praise is in the
Gospels, differs so fundamentally from that of the other writings of the
New Testament that we can claim for it a scientific quality. The stories
of the miracles have technical terms and are in a language adorned
by medical phraseology, but the mental attitude towards disease
is certainly not that of a follower of Hippocrates, nor even of a
scientifically trained contemporary of Dioscorides.(25)

(24) Psychotherapy, New York, 1919, p. 79, "I am convinced
that miracles happen there. There is more than natural power
manifest."

(25) See Luke the Physician, by Harnack, English ed., 1907,
and W. K. Hobart, The Medical Language of St. Luke, 1882.

CHINESE AND JAPANESE MEDICINE

CHINESE medicine illustrates the condition at which a highly
intellectual people may arrive, among whom thought and spec