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Preface to the First Edition
How to preserve and to improve health, how to prevent and to
treat sickness, are truly living, vital problems in the medical world
today. Never before in the history of the human family have these
great questions received the earnest, intensive, scientific study and
wide publicity that are being given them at the present hour. Medical
science in all its ramifications has made marvelous progress during
the last half century. It would require a volume to enumerate and
explain the discoveries, the development, and achievement, that have
been made in this great department of human interest and welfare.
The knowledge that has been gained in the exhaustive study of these
fundamental subjects has been given to the public in highly scientific
and technical volumes, and in simpler form in books, magazines,
newspapers, and lectures.
This volume, entitled
Medical Ministry
, is one more valuable
contribution to the world’s needs in the domain of physical, mental,
and spiritual well-being. It is unique in its scope. It recognizes and
commends the truly scientific in the causes and treatment of diseases.
It places strong emphasis upon the observance of all that relates to
the prevention of ailments. And still more, the writer of this volume
recognizes that sin, the transgression of divine law, is the primary
cause of disease, sickness, and death.
Believing that the transgression of moral law leads to the dis-
regard of physical and mental laws, the writer places very great
importance upon obedience to moral law as one of the primary con-
ditions necessary for perfect health. And obedience to moral law, it
is urged, can be rendered only through the acceptance of, and union
with, Christ, the redeemer of man ruined through transgression.
Hence it is claimed that the perfect remedy for the ills of mankind is
the combination, appreciation, and observance of the spiritual, the
mental, and the physical laws of our being.
It is this wide, all-inclusive scope of instruction set forth in
Medical Ministry
that commends it so highly to the public. This
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