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A Last Word About Christian Science. 



one erring mind controlling another (through whatever medium) 

 is not Science governed by God, the unerring mind. The great facts 

 of omnipresence and omnipotence, of Spirit possessing all power and 

 filling all space, these thoughts contradicted forever, to my under- 

 standing, the notion that matter can be actual. These facts also 

 revealed to me primeval existence, and the radiant realities of good; 

 and there was present to me, as never before, the awful unreality of 

 evil. The vision announced the equipollence* of God, consecrated 

 my affections anew, and revealed the glorious possibilities — 1 Thy 

 kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven ' (Chap. I., first paragraph). 



'Tor three years I sought day and night the solution of this prob- 

 lem of healing. I searched the Scriptures, and read nothing else, 

 not even a newspaper. I kept aloof from society, and devoted my 

 time and energies to discovering a positive rule. I knew the princi- 

 ple of all harmonious mind-action to be God, and that cures were 

 produced according to primitive Christian healing, by a holy, uplifting 

 faith; but I must know its science, and I won my way through dis- 

 covery, reason and experiment. I had no human aid. The revela- 

 tion of truth to the understanding came, as to all, through divine 

 power. This is the origin of Christian Science in this century. 



" My medical researches and experiments had prepared the way for 

 metaphysics. Every material dependence had failed, and I can now 

 understand why; for I see the means by which mortals are divinely 

 driven to a spiritual source for help, happiness and Life. My experi- 

 ments in Homoeopathy had made me sceptical as to material curative 

 methods. The drug is attenuated to such a degree that not a vestige 

 of it remains; and from this I learn that it is not the drug that cures 

 the disease, or changes one of the symptoms. I have attenuated common 

 table-salt until there was not a single saline property left. The salt 

 had 'lost it savor;' and yet with one drop of that attenuation in a 

 goblet of water, and a teaspoonful of the water administered at inter- 

 vals of three hours, I have cured a patient sinking in the last stages of 

 typhoid fever. The highest attenuation of Homoeopathy, and the 

 most potent, steps out of matter into mind; and thus it shall be seen 

 that mind is the healer, or metaphysics, and that there is no efficacy 

 in the drug. 



"A case of dropsy given up by the faculty, fell into my hands. 

 It was a terrible case. Tapping had been employed, and the patient 

 looked like a barrel as she lay in the bed. I prescribed the fourth 

 attenuation of nitrate of silver, with occasional doses of high attenua- 

 tion of sulphur. She improved perceptibly. Believing then in the 



