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(Judge Medicine charges the jury)
The testimony for the plaintiff, Personal Sense, being
closed, Judge Medicine arises, and with great solemnity
addresses the jury of Mortal Minds. He analyzes
the offence, reviews the testimony, and
explains the law relating to liver-complaint.
His conclusion is, that laws of nature render disease
homicidal. In compliance with a stern duty, his Honor,
Judge Medicine, urges the jury not to allow their judgment
to be warped by the irrational, unchristian suggestions
of Christian Science. The jury must regard in such
cases only the evidence of Personal Sense against Mortal
Man.
As the Judge proceeds, the prisoner grows restless. His
sallow face blanches with fear, and a look of despair and
death settles upon it. The case is given to the jury. A
brief consultation ensues, and the jury returns a verdict
of "Guilty of liver-complaint in the first degree."
(Mortal Man sentenced)
Judge Medicine then proceeds to pronounce the solemn
sentence of death upon the prisoner. Because he has
loved his neighbor as himself, Mortal Man has
been guilty of benevolence in the first degree,
and this has led him into the commission of the second
crime, liver-complaint, which material laws condemn as
homicide. For this crime Mortal Man is sentenced to
be tortured until he is dead. "May God have mercy on
your soul," is the Judge's solemn peroration.
The prisoner is then remanded to his cell (sick-bed),
and Scholastic Theology is sent for to prepare the frightened
sense of Life, God, - which sense must be immortal,
- for death.
(Appeal to a higher tribunal)
Ah! but Christ, Truth, the spirit of Life and the
friend of Mortal Man, can open wide those prison doors
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