The Christian doctrine of health : a handbook on the relation of bodily to spiritual and moral health / by the author of "Pro Christo et ecclesia."

  • Dougall, L. (Lily), 1858-1923.
Date:
1916
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The Christian doctrine of health : a handbook on the relation of bodily to spiritual and moral health / by the author of "Pro Christo et ecclesia.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1. To love is power with God and man. 2. To love is the equipoise of all the powers of a man in serene and benevolent energy. 3. To love is health of mind and body. 4. To hate is to be separated from God and estranged from man. 5. To hate is to be in a condition of perturbation and inner conflict. 6. Hatred tends to destroy the hater’s mind and body. C. Medical psychology corroborates the purest ethics concerning the all-importance for a good life of love to man and the love of goodness, which implies trust in some Force of goodness. 1. What we call ‘righteous anger’ inhibits vital force as much as does unrighteous anger. 2. A good man’s anger poisons the nerve centres as does a bad man’s anger. 3. Fret in a good cause is as wearing as in a bad cause. Just because we are in this world to be efficient, we ought not to spend time, attention and money upon the diseases of the body. To the end of efficiency we ought to cultivate goodwill—the spirit of charity— and we ought not to acquiesce in tempers and activities which are incompatible with physical health. D. W e must constantly turn to Him who has power by the finger of God to cast out the devil of ill-will or hatred from our hearts and fill them with the enthusiasm of love to God and man. Some years ago, in a western town of America, there was a girl bedridden with many ailments, fretful, self- regarding and unlovely. The doctors had given up