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smile the serene smile of the Neministically Healed and Menti- 

 physically Perfect Soul.' 



"The little card read: 



" ' ]S[. ]Sr. K. The body says, " I am ill." The reports of Sick- 

 ness may form a coalition with the reports of Sin and say, " I am 

 Malice, Lust, Apj)etite, Envy, Hate." Treat a belief in sickness 

 as you would sin — with sudden dismissal. If it were not for what 

 the human mind says of the body, the body would not be weary 

 any more than an inanimate wheel. Nihil nemini nocet.' 



" On the sixth day the president gi'eeted me with her serenest 

 smile. 



" ' "VVe liaA'e now reached the point, my dear,' she said, ' when 

 we must abandon Pharmaceutics and take up Ontology, the science 

 of Abstract Being. In this we have many rivals who echo the 

 cry, " Why art thou, NEMIXISM, come hither to torment us be- 

 fore our time ? " Among the systems that thus cry out are many 

 whom this world deems successful. Animal Magnetism, Atheism, 

 Spiritualism, Theosophy, Agnosticism, Pantheism, and Infidelity 

 are antagonistic to Mentiphysics and fatal to the demonstration 

 thereof, and of iSTeminism, its noblest culmination; and so,' she 

 continued, ' are some other systems.' 



" She warned me especially against Pantheism, ' the worship 

 of the sylvan god Pan,' a cult reputed to be especially rife among 

 the members of our club at Alcalde. 



" I tried to explain to her the difference between Pantheism 

 and Sciosophy, but I did not succeed very well, for she grew impa- 

 tient. In her judgment, I discovered, Sciosophy was grossly im- 

 practical, and the views of Mr. Abner Dean would take the bread 

 from the mouths of better men than he. ' I am told,' she said, 

 ' that Mr. Dean actually signed that wicked paper * of those "VVash- 



* In this document it is asserted that Neministic Science and Astral Health with a 

 Key to the Stars " and all of the inspired writings shall be free — i. e., free from the love of 

 the lust of gain and that the charging of three dollars for Science and Health, etc., when it 

 can be printed and sold for less than fifty cents per copy, is wrong in principle, and, in 

 effect, shuts the doors of this beautiful truth upon the poor by thus putting a prohibitive 

 price upon it. . . . 



" We hold that in the giving of class instruction the teacher is entitled to a reasonable 

 compensation, and give our opinion that such compensation should be ten dollars, and we 

 do condemn the present practice when they charge one hundred dollars for a series of 

 twelve lessons. Take a class of thirty — which is not unusual — the teacher receives ebout 

 $258 per day for two hours' work. This is unjust, and especially so, because many of these 

 teachers are unable and unfit for teaching. 



" In the matter of healing, when the healer gives the proper time to the work, one dollar 

 per treatment ought not to be excessive, but the practice of some of charging before the 

 patient is received into the room and then heavily charged for the treatment, is an outrage, 

 . . . and should be prohibited." — See full tctf, Washington News Letter, September 6, 1S99 ; 

 Editor. 



