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(Thought regarding death)
The act of describing disease - its symptoms, locality,
and fatality - is not scientific. Warning people against
death is an error that tends to frighten into
death those who are ignorant of Life as God.
Thousands of instances could be cited of health restored
by changing the patient's thoughts regarding death.
(Fallacious hypotheses)
A scientific mental method is more sanitary than the
use of drugs, and such a mental method produces permanent
health. Science must go over the whole
ground, and dig up every seed of error's
sowing. Spiritualism relies upon human beliefs and
hypotheses. Christian Science removes these beliefs and
hypotheses through the higher understanding of God, for
Christian Science, resting on divine Principle, not on material
personalities, in its revelation of immortality, introduces
the harmony of being.
Jesus cast out evil spirits, or false beliefs. The Apostle
Paul bade men have the Mind that was in the Christ.
Jesus did his own work by the one Spirit. He said: "My
Father worketh hitherto, and I work." He never described
disease, so far as can be learned from the Gospels,
but he healed disease.
(Mistaken methods)
The unscientific practitioner says: "You are ill. Your
brain is overtaxed, and you must rest. Your body is
weak, and it must be strengthened. You have
nervous prostration, and must be treated for it."
Science objects to all this, contending for the rights of intelligence
and asserting that Mind controls body and brain.
(Divine strength)
Mind-science teaches that mortals need "not be weary
in well doing." It dissipates fatigue in doing
good. Giving does not impoverish us in the
service of our Maker, neither does withholding enrich us.
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