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ual affairs: and thirty years experience
have shown her to be an able executor
and wise administrator They are glad
to follow one who has proved herself so
we'll fitted 10 lead. In the clear light OF
Truth Is 1t not evident then that instead
OF being an objection to the system. it Is
very much in its favor. that II has a leader
who has earned her place by long years
OF active service: a commander whom
every private soldier loves and houors
most important factor in the strength
and soldity of the movement. is in its
wise Leader. who has besn pruvidentili-
ly selected TO guide a worthy cause:
But says one she is 4 woman" Yes,
and so Is your mother. In u land that
has Graded Mary A. IivermoTe. Julia
Ward Howe. Harriet Beecher Stowe and
Will have fling at American woman
hood? Is II not corspicuousy true that
in charity, in phllanTophy. and in re-
lgion, the burden of the work rests up
on woman? Ia it not 4 fact THAI in sp!r-
itual perception and intuitivs power
woman Is the equal. certainly not the
inferior of man? Then must it not be
granted that To refuse the Investigation
nj Christian Science because It's d!scov-
erer founder and leader Is a woman. Is
to abandon reason for prejudice and to
forsake logic for lunacy?
MENTAL SCIENCE.
Stin another rnisconception is. that II
teaches that one personality may con-
troll another: that sickness is healed by
tho control OF the stronger will over the
weaker, II this were true. then might
you we'll object TO Christian Science
Infinitely better for the Yatirnt Is an
honest dragging doctor. than the mental
manipulation. Than the one plague %
mental quackery, better have the ten
plaques Of Egypt. In Christian Science
the less there is of personality the mor-
there is of the healing power. for this
power is God. and the change is wrought
by none other than infinite Mind. Tha,
which heals is Christian Science Is uot
the human will. II is rot the mortal
man. The healing power in Christian
Science is the ever-present Love. which
Is God.
I MENTAL THERAPEUTICS.
/ There are certain honest DIRECTORS to
this system OF mental therapeutics who
regard I as unreasonable and Illogical
They say as religion IL is all very well.
but as for attempting To heal the sick
without drugs. that is all very wrong.
No one knows better than myself the
high character OF Il large GLASS ~ our
physicians. No one more than myself
believes in their high moral purpose I'D
their devoted self-sacTihc.nE lives.
However. are physicians themselves
fully satisfied with their system of hesi.
ingr Not IL their words be taken as the
index OF their thought In an essay in
the New York Medical Journal. a prom
inent physician is quoted as saying II
have no confidence in the remedies We
give. They do not cure. There must b.
some other influence that cures disease"
In an essay published in the New England
Medical Gazette the author says. Il
W ~
gave absolutely no medicine and with M
Ill results to his large circle of patients"
From the Atlantic Weekly We quote 4
writer saying. III in the past people
have recovered in spite of treatment.
how do we know but they are doing so
yet."
When Christ Jesus began his healing
work, mankind had been using material
remedies for two thousand years. Yet
though II is said OF him. that he healed
al manner of disease. n never was
known to give a single drug. But is il
said that Jesus is the exception Yet his
disciples healed in like manner. Also
Paul and the Church for the first three
hundred years Of its existence. Chris
tian Science. in healing without drugs is
simply obedlent 10 the explicit command
Of the Master, Heal the sick: raise the
dead; cast out demons" To reject
Christian Science beCauss OF healing l.
to reject the commands Of Christ Jesus
II he Was right in refusing the use OF
drugs Christian Science can not 20
wrong In healing without them. To his
disciples he gave two explicit commands
Preach the gospel and Heal the
sick."' II those who only preach who
obey only one half the commands OF the
Master call themselves believers, by what
oSic are Christian Scientists who obey
the whole of his command called unbe-
heversr Said ;he founder OF Christian
ity. These signs shall follow them that
believe. They shall La hands ON the
sick and they shall recover" million
witnesses testify that Christian Scten-
lists have the signs. Therefore. they
are the believers according TO the stand
ard of Christ Jesus To deny this. is to
declare that Its founder could not de-
nne his Christianity. but no one will
deny 1t. Therefore. 1t Is confessed that
Christian Sci ence is that Christianity OF
Christ.
SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
The objection Is often made that reli-