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| topsy shows that neither the disease
nor the ether killed him, but that he
| died OF fear--in such a case which Is
In what sense is the Christian Scien-
proven most potent. medicine or mind?
| list pest Is II because he minds
his own business more than the aver
age man, is not a brawler, an alcohol
| drinker, a tobacco user, "a profane
swearer, an adulterer, n fornicator, nor
a dishonest politician or business man ?
Or Is IL because he is the very antipode
OF all these? In what sense Is the
! Christian Scientist a charlatan? Is IL
| because he heals the sick without
drugs? Well. our best exemplar. the
Nazarene Prophet. healed through
mind. and commanded His followers TO
do likewise. The Prophets and Apost-
les and Christians in the first centu-
ries healed the sick as a token OF their
Christianity. Has Christianity inn
proved upon its earlier records. or has
IL retrograded? Compare the lives of
its present professors with those of it's
followers at the beginning of the
Christian era and you have the correct
answer.
AS pertinent illustration OF this
general subject under discussion, /
viii cite a modern phase of medical
practice namely. the homeopathic sys-
TEN. To which the old school has be-
come reconciled. Here i speak from
experience. In homeopathy the high
est attenuations of medicine have not
an iota of the drug left i'm them. and
the lower attenuations have so little
that a vial full OF the pellets are swal
lowed without harm and without ap-
preciabe effect. whereas the homeo-
pathist administers half a dozen or less
of these same globules. and tells you.
and you will believe him. that there
with he heals the sick. This, however.
does not disprove the efficacy of the
system II enhances il, for IL identi-
fies it with mind, not matter, I'm the
grooves of God in the hands of Omni-
potence. And say, q petty scorner OF
the Infinite! canst thou mock His mir
acles or scatter His shade who "Abid =.
eth under the shadow of the AL
vighty?'
The homeoDathist handles i'm his
practice, and is supposed TO heal. the
most violent stages of organic infiam-
matory disease. To stop decomposition,
to remove enteritis. gastritis, gastral-
gia, hyperemia, pneumonia, diptheria
and ossification-the effects of calca-
reoussats formed by carbonate and
sulphate of lime; and the homeopathic
physician succeeds in healing his cases
without drugs equally with the allo-
path. who depends upon drugs. Then
is mind or matter the intelligent factor
in pathology? If matter. / challenge
matter 10 act apart from mind and
II mind, I have proved bepond cavil
that the action of mind is curative and
potent I'm proportiah as ii acts untram-
melled by matter. Hence our Masters
saying. THE flesh profiteth nothing"
The difference between metaphysics in
homeopathy and metaphysics i'm
Christian Science consists In the for
chile fact; the former enlists faith in
the pharmacy of the human mind and
the latter couples faith with under
standing, and is based on the divine
mind, knowing that this mind is omnip-
otent, is infinite. is alI--nence IL is the
sovereign appeal. and there is nothing
therein TO attenuate. The more OF this
mind the better for both physician and
patient
We have scholarly Christian scien-
fists that can compete with men Of
letters. But. and If the faculty is 10
healing by classics what Of your good
Mr.. Moody. and what OF the blind Tom
from whose unlettered head flow to his
fingers strains sweetest music?
Ignorance. slang and malice touch
not the hem OF the garment OF Christ
ian scientists, for once touching IL they
would be destroyed. To be stoned for
that whereby our Master sought ito
designate His best works, saying For
which OF these works do We stone Me?"
is thereby 10 make known the best
work Of Christian scientists.
MARY BAKER G.. EDDY.
New York DeCelnber IL