15Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor
can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the sub‐
Health and
the senses ject of health. The Science of Mind-healing
18shows it to be impossible for aught but Mind
to testify truly or to exhibit the real status of man. There‐
fore the divine Principle of Science, reversing the testi‐
21mony of the physical senses, reveals man as harmoniously
existent in Truth, which is the only basis of health; and
thus Science denies all disease, heals the sick, overthrows
24false evidence, and refutes materialistic logic.

Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of
Truth, which invigorates and purifies.

9 The effect of this Science is
to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it
may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind.

12Experiments have favored the fact that Mind governs
the body, not in one instance, but in every instance. The
Practical
success indestructible faculties of Spirit exist without
15the conditions of matter and also without the
false beliefs of a so-called material existence. Working
out the rules of Science in practice, the author has re‐
18stored health in cases of both acute and chronic disease in
their severest forms. Secretions have been changed, the
structure has been renewed, shortened limbs have been
21elongated, ankylosed joints have been made supple, and
carious bones have been restored to healthy conditions. I

Great respect is due the motives and philanthropy of
9the higher class of physicians. We know that if they un‐
Intentions
respected derstood the Science of Mind-healing, and were
in possession of the enlarged power it confers
12to benefit the race physically and spiritually, they would
rejoice with us. Even this one reform in medicine would
ultimately deliver mankind from the awful and oppres‐
15sive bondage now enforced by false theories, from which
multitudes would gladly escape.

15The universal belief in physics weighs against the high
and mighty truths of Christian metaphysics.

21 The
human mind acts more powerfully to offset the discords
of matter and the ills of flesh, in proportion as it puts less
24weight into the material or fleshly scale and more weight
into the spiritual scale. Homoeopathy diminishes the
drug, but the potency of the medicine increases as the
27drug disappears.

Metaphysics, as taught in Christian Science, is the
next stately step beyond homoeopathy.

Homoeopathy takes mental symptoms largely
157:1into consideration in its diagnosis of disease. Christian
Science deals wholly with the mental cause in judging and
3destroying disease. It succeeds where homoeopathy fails,
solely because its one recognized Principle of healing is
Mind, and the whole force of the mental element is em‐
6ployed through the Science of Mind, which never shares
its rights with inanimate matter.

Christian Science exterminates the drug, and rests on
9Mind alone as the curative Principle, acknowledging that
The modus
of
homoeopathy the divine Mind has all power.

Holy inspiration
6has created states of mind which have been able to nullify
the action of the flames, as in the Bible case of the three
young Hebrew captives, cast into the Babylonian furnace;
9while an opposite mental state might produce spontaneous
combustion.

Christian Science destroys material beliefs through the
6understanding of Spirit, and the thoroughness of this work
determines health. Erring human mind-forces can work
only evil under whatever name or pretence they are em‐
9ployed; for Spirit and matter, good and evil, light and
darkness, cannot mingle.

398:1Sometimes Jesus called a disease by name, as when he
said to the epileptic boy, "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I
Naming
maladies 3charge thee, come out of him, and enter no
more into him." It is added that "the spirit
[error] cried, and rent him sore and came out of him, and
6he was as one dead," — clear evidence that the malady
was not material. These instances show the concessions
which Jesus was willing to make to the popular ignorance
9of spiritual Life-laws. Often he gave no name to the
distemper he cured.

To the sufferer with the withered hand
he said, "Stretch forth thine hand," and it "was restored
15whole, like as the other."

If the body is material, it cannot, for that very reason,
18suffer with a fever. Because the so-called material body
Remedy
for fever is a mental concept and governed by mortal
mind, it manifests only what that so-called
21mind expresses. Therefore the efficient remedy is to
destroy the patient's false belief by both silently and au‐
dibly arguing the true facts in regard to harmonious
24being, — representing man as healthy instead of diseased,
and showing that it is impossible for matter to suffer, to
feel pain or heat, to be thirsty or sick. Destroy fear,
27and you end fever.

30 To fear and admit
the power of disease, is to paralyze mental and scientific
demonstration.

377:1If your patient believes in taking cold, mentally con‐
vince him that matter cannot take cold, and that thought
3governs this liability. If grief causes suffering, convince
the sufferer that affliction is often the source of joy, and
that he should rejoice always in ever-present Love.

12 When an ac‐
cident happens, you think or exclaim, "I am hurt!"
Your thought is more powerful than your words, more
15powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury
real.

Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt
18and understand the reason why, and you will find the
ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your
disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine meta‐
21physics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures
declare Him to be.

3If we wish to follow Christ, Truth, it must be in the
way of God's appointing. Jesus said, " He that believeth
Loving God
supremely on me, the works that I do shall he do also."

12We must forsake the foundation of material systems,
however time-honored, if we would gain the Christ as
our only Saviour. Not partially, but fully, the great
15healer of mortal mind is the healer of the body.

The purpose and motive to live aright can be gained
now.

Working and praying with true motives,
21your Father will open the way.

The great spiritual fact must be brought out that man
is, not shall be, perfect and immortal.