A Last Word About Christian Science. 



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Esquimaux retain health by incantations, as effectually as civilized 

 practitioners by their modus operandi (171). 



"If the case to be mentally treated is consumption, take up the lead- 

 ing points included (according to belief) in this disease. Show that it 

 is not inherited; that inflammation, tubercles, hemorrhage, and decom- 

 position, are beliefs, images of mortal thought, superimposed upon 

 the body (295).— If the truth of being, while destroying error, 

 causes chemicalization (as when an acid and alkali meet), then one 

 must neutralize the other, for the purpose of forming a higher com- 

 bination. This fermentation should be as painless to man as to a 

 fluid, for matter has no sensation, and mortal mind only sees and feels 

 materially. If an aggravation of symptoms sets in, you may some- 

 times treat the patient less for the disease, and more for the fermenta- 

 tion, and abate the symptoms by removing the belief that chemicaliza- 

 tion produces pain (296).— Eemember that all is mind, and there is 

 no matter. You are only seeing and feeling a belief, whether it be 

 cancer, deformity, consumption or fracture, that you deal with (297).— 

 Realize that the evidence of the senses is not to be accepted in the 

 case of sickness, any more than it is in the case of sin (322).— You 

 cause bodily sufferings, and increase them, by admitting their 

 reality and continuance, as directly as you enhance your joys by be- 

 lieving them to be real and continuous (335).— Disease is a fear 

 expressed not so much by the lips as the functions of the body. 

 Mitigate the fear, and you relieve the oppressed organ, and the in- 

 flammation, decomposition, or deposit will abate (337). 



" God cannot mistake when He selects one for His service who has 

 grown into such fitness for it, as renders any abuse of her mission an 

 impossibility. A simple statement of Christian Science, if demon- 

 strated by healing, contains the proof of all that I have said of it. If 

 one of my statements is true, every one must be true, for I never 

 depart from my principle and rule (470).— It is this perception of 

 Scripture that lifted me out of disease and death, and inspires my 

 writings (471). — It is related that a father, anxious to try an experi- 

 ment, plunged his infant babe, only a few hours old, into water for 

 several minutes, and repeated this operation daily, until the child 

 could remain under water twenty minutes, moving and playing 

 without harm, like a fish. Parents should remember this, and so 

 learn how to develop their children properly on dry land " (478, 479). 



In the » Glossary " of Mrs. Eddy's book, man is defined as follows: 

 m "Man is the infinite idea of infinite spirit, the spiritual image and 

 likeness of God; the full representation of mind; the idea of principle, 

 not person; the compound idea of God, including all other ideas; the 



