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Then comes the question, how do drugs, hygiene, and
animal magnetism heal? It may be affirmed that they
do not heal, but only relieve suffering temporarily,
exchanging one disease for another.
We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or
Mind can heal, and this Mind must be divine, not human.
Mind transcends all other power, and will ultimately supersede
all other means in healing. In order to heal by
Science, you must not be ignorant of the moral and spiritual
demands of Science nor disobey them. Moral ignorance
or sin affects your demonstration, and hinders its
approach to the standard in Christian Science.
(Terms adopted by the author)
After the author's sacred discovery, she affixed the
name "Science" to Christianity, the name "error" to
corporeal sense, and the name "substance" to
Mind. Science has called the world to battle
over this issue and its demonstration, which
heals the sick, destroys error, and reveals the universal
harmony. To those natural Christian Scientists, the ancient
worthies, and to Christ Jesus, God certainly revealed
the spirit of Christian Science, if not the absolute letter.
(Science the way)
Because the Science of Mind seems to bring into dishonor
the ordinary scientific schools, which wrestle with
material observations alone, this Science has
met with opposition; but if any system honors
God, it ought to receive aid, not opposition, from all thinking
persons. And Christian Science does honor God as
no other theory honors Him, and it does this in the way
of His appointing, by doing many wonderful works
through the divine name and nature. One must fulfil
one's mission without timidity or dissimulation, for to be
well done, the work must be done unselfishly. Christianity
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