The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-17

mind. there is no imagination. A cat
has no imagination"
"Then she had q real paint"
81 have already told you there is nc
such thing as real pain"
ut is strange and interesting. dc
wonder what was the matter with the
cat. Because there being no such
thing as a real pain, she nos being able
to imagine an imaginary one. it woul1
seem that God in his pity has com
pensated the cat with some kind of a
mysterious emotion disable when her
tail is trodden on, which, for the mo
ment, joins cat and Christian in one
common brotherhood Of"
She broke in with an irritated-
peace! The cat feels nothing, the
Christian feels nothing. Your empty
and foolish imaginings are profana
tion and blasphemy and can do you an
injury. It is wiser and better and no
lier to recognize and confess that there
is no such thing as disease or pain oE
DEATH"
al am full Of imaginary tortures,'
said, "but l do not thing l could be
any more uncomfortable if they were
real ones. What must I do to get rid
of themR"
There is no occasion to get rid of
them, since they do not exist. They
are illusions propagated by matter,
and matter has no existence; there is
no such thing az matter"
ut sounds right and clear, but yet
it seems in a degree elusive; it seems
to slip through, just when you think
you are getting a grip OF it."
Explain"
"Well, for instance: if there is no
such thing as matter, how can matter
propagate things9"
In her compassion she almost smiled.
She would have emiled if there we're
any such thing as q smile.
1T is quite SIMPLE" she said; the
fundamental propositions of Christian
Science explain it, and they are sum
married. in the four folio wing self
evident pro positions: 1 God is All il
all. 2 God ia good. Good is Mind
3. God, Spirit. being all, nothing is
matter. 4 Life, God, omnipotent
Good, deny death, evil, sin, disease.
There now-you see."
It seemed n%ebulous; it did not seem
to say anything about the difficulty in
hand-how non existent matter can
propagate illusions. said, with some
h%esitancy:
"Does-joes it explainG"
Doesn't itG Even il read back
ward il will do it."
With a budding hope, I asked her TO
do 1t backward.
"E3ry well. Disease Elm evil death
deny Good omnipotent God life mat
ter is nothing all baiUg Spirit Cd
Mind is Good good is God All is God.
There-do you undo sand nova
''It-it-well, it is palmer than it
was before; still-"
"Wel.9'
Gould you try it some more waysG'
"As many as you like; it always
means the same. Interchanged in any
way you please it cannot be made to
mean any thing different from what it
means WhCn put in any other way"
What is the origin of Christian
s. ienCt9' 1 asked.
"Ln a sers9 it is a gift Of God, but
the credit of discovering the gift is due
to an American lady. The history
and nature of the discovery are SET
down in the book here, and"
Did the lady write the bookQ"
Yes, she wrote it all herself. The
title is Science and Health, with key
to the Scripture, for she explains the
Scriptures; they we're not understood
before. Not even by the twelve dis
ciples. she begins thus-I will read it
to you."
But she had forgotten her glasses.
"But I will leave the book with you
and will go, now but give yourself no
uneRsiness-I will give you absent
treatment from now till 1 go to bed"
III.
Under the powerful influence of the
near treat uent and the absent treat
ment together, my bones were grad.
ually Tetreating inward and disap
pearing from view. The good work
took a brisk start, now, aud went on
quite swiftly. Ny body Yves diligently
straining and stretching, this way and
that, to accommodate the processes Of
restoration, and every minute or two l