The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-07

to faith and understanding, and thoughts
acquaint themselves intelligently with
God. Her very words"
1T is elegant And it is a fine thought,
too-marrying religion to medicine, in
stead of medicine to the undertaken in
the old way; for religion and medicine
properly belong together, they being the
basis OF all spiritual and physical health.
What kind of medicine do you give for
the ordinary disease, such as
I'VE never give medicine in any cir
cumstances whatever! We
But, madame, it says
Il don't care what it says, and I don't
wish to talk about it,
Il am sorry if l have offended but you
see the mention seemed in some way in
consistent, and
There are no inconsistencies in Chris
tian Science. The thing is impossible, for
the Science is absolute. 1t cannot be
otherwise, since it proceeds directly from
the All-in-all and the Everything-in-
Which, also Soul, Bones. Truth, one of a
series, alone and without ecual It is
Mathematics purified from material dross
and made spiritual
Il can see that but
ut rests upon the immovable basis OF an
Apodistical Principles"
The word 1attened itself against my
mind in trying to get in and disordered
me a little, and before l could inquire into
its pertinency she was already throwing
the needed light:
This Apodistical Principle in the abso-
lutte Principle of Scientific Mind healing
the sovereign Omnipotence which delivers
the children Of men from yain. disease
decay, and every i'll that flesh is heir to.
Surely not every i'll, every decay
Every one; there are no exceptions;
there is no such thing as decay-it is an
unreality it has no existence.
But without your glasses your failing
eyesight does not permit you to-
My eyesight cannot fail; nothing can
fall the Mind is master. and the Mind
permits no retrogression.
She was under the inspiration of the
Third Degree, therefore there could be no
profit in continuing this part OF the sub
ject. l shifted to other ground and in
quired further concerning the Discoverer
OF the Science.
Did the discovery come suddenly, like
Klondike, or after long study and calcula-
tion, like America"
The comparisons are not respectful,
since they refer to trivialities-but let it
pass. ! VIII answer in the DISCOVERIES s
own words: God had been graciously
fitting me, during many years, for the
reception of final revelation of the abso-
lutte Principle of Scientific Mind heal
Fin"
Many years. How many?"
Eighteen centuries!"
"AH-God, God good, goodGod, Truth,
Bones. Liver. one of a series. alone and
without eGual-it is amazing!"
You may well say it, sir. Yet it is but
the truth. This American lady. our re-
vered and sacred Founder. is distinctly
referred to and her coming prophesied. in
the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse; she
could not have been more plainly indicated
by ST. John without actually mentioning
| her name.
How strange, how wonderful"
| Il will quote her own words, from her
! Key to the Scriptures: The twelfth chap
! ter of the Apocalypse has a special sug-
gestiveness in connection with this nine
| teenth century, There-do you note
| that? Think-note well.
"But-what does i mean?"
Listen, and you will know | quote
| her inspired words again: In the opening
of the Sixth Seal, typical OF six thousand
years since Adam, there is one distinctive
feature which has pecial reference to the
present age. Thus
Revelation xii. l. And there ap-
peared a great wonder in heaven-s
! woman clothed with the sun, and the moor
under her feet. and upon her head {
crown of twelve stars
THAT is our Head, our Chief, our Dis
coverer of Christian Science-nothing car
be palmer, nothing surer. And note this
Revelation xii 6. And the woman 1et
into The wilderness. where she he'd ,
place prepared of God
1 THAT IS Boston
Il recognize it, madame. These ar'
sublime things. and impressive; l neyel
understood these passages before; please
go on with the-wish the proofs.
Very well. Listen:
And I saw another mighty angel come
down from heaven. clothed with cloni
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