Man's Redemption of Man

This organum was absent, and even in the art of medicine Hippocrates with all his genius did not get beyond highly trained observation, and a conception of disease as a process of Nature. The great Pergamon, Galen, did indeed realize that the bare fact was only preliminary to the scientific study of disease by experiment, and to the collecting of data, from which principles and laws could be derived. The gospel of his relation to the powers unseen has brought sometimes hope, too often despair. The gospel of his goods--of man's relation to his fellow men, is written in blood on every page of history. And the third gospel, the gospel of his body, which brings man into relation with nature. In the struggle for existence in which all life is engaged, disease and pain loom large as fundamental facts. The history of man is the story of a great martyrdom--plague, pestilence and famine, battle and murder, crimes unspeakable, tortures inconceivable, and the inhumanity of man to man has even outdone what appear to be atrocities in nature. Then add to this all the pain which has fallen and will fall upon our race through generations past and to come. Is there not then some great gulf fixed between us and the good God.