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be found living witnesses and monuments to the virtue
and power of Truth, as applied through this Christian
system of healing disease.
(The main purpose)
To-day the healing power of Truth is widely demonstrated
as an immanent, eternal Science, instead of a
phenomenal exhibition. Its appearing is the
coming anew of the gospel of "on earth peace,
good-will toward men." This coming, as was promised
by the Master, is for its establishment as a permanent
dispensation among men; but the mission of Christian
Science now, as in the time of its earlier demonstration,
is not primarily one of physical healing. Now, as then,
signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing
of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate
its divine origin, - to attest the reality of the higher
mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the
world.
(Exploded doctrine)
The science (so-called) of physics would have one believe
that both matter and mind are subject to disease,
and that, too, in spite of the individual's protest
and contrary to the law of divine Mind.
This human view infringes man's free moral agency; and
it is as evidently erroneous to the author, and will be to
all others at some future day, as the practically rejected
doctrine of the predestination of souls to damnation or
salvation. The doctrine that man's harmony is governed
by physical conditions all his earthly days, and that
he is then thrust out of his own body by the operation of
matter, - even the doctrine of the superiority of matter
over Mind, - is fading out.
(Disease mental)
The hosts of Aesculapius are flooding the world with
diseases, because they are ignorant that the human mind
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