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let one of them raise the dead and
then there will be some foundation for
the claim.
When Accidents Never Happen.
On page 421 of Science and Health,
Mrs. Eddy says: Under Providence
there can be no accident, since there
is no room for imperfection in per-
lection" And yet strange TO say, she
gives us on page 396 instructions in re-
gard to accidents. Her words are:
When an accident happens you think
or exclaim, L am hurt Your thought
is more powerful than your words,
more powerful than the accident itself,
to make the injury real. Now reverse
the process. Declare you are not hurt,
and understand the reason why; and
you will find the ensuing good effects
to be in exact proportion to your dis
belief in physics, and your fidelity to
God as all which the scriptures have
declared Him to be-"
This is the kind Of philosophy to
which some socalled intelligent people
subscribe. If as a result of runaway
you are lying on the street with a bro
ken leg, a cash in your head, and your
life blood gushing from a severed ar
terry. all you have to do is simply to
declare you are not hurt, and know
the reason why" If you are so far
some accommodating Scientist will say
it for you.
BOils, and How to Get Rid Of Them.
On page 46 Mrs. Eddy gives instruc-
lions for the removal Of a boil; she
says: You say a boil is painful: but
that is impossible, for matter without
mind is not painful Now administer
mentally to your patient a high attenua-
ton of truth on this subject and it will
Va hni1 no Mrc d
dy's remedy, but it is very different to
the remedy employed by Isaiah, one of
Gods own prophets. Then HeZekiah
was sick with a boil. Isaiah did not ig-
more the disease; he did not say: Now,
Hezekiah, you just stop your grunt-
ing, you have, no pain, you only think
you have. Nor did he expect that God
would cure the patient by means of a
miracle; nor did he mentally admins
ter a high attenuation of truth. No,
Isaiah took q lump of figs-which was
the method in those days of Fastening
the swelling and supperation-and laid
it upon the inflamed place. And then
Hezekiah turned his face to the wall
and prayed for health. That is the
Bible way. 1t is the Christian way.
1t is the common sense way.
"My Neighbour"
You will remember that on one oc-
casion man asked our Lord: Who is
my neighbor? And this question called
from the lips of the Great Teacher one
Of his wonderful parallels. In order TO
show the man that a true neighbor
must exercise common sense as well as
a spirit of compassion, he related the
parable known as the Parable of the
Good Samaritan" You are doubtless
familiar with the story-how the trav-
eler on the road to Jericho was way
men, And in this pitiable condition he
was found by a Samaritan who took
compassion upon him and dressed his
wounds. pouring in oil and wine, the
common remedies in those days for
cleansing and modifying. 1t would
seem from this that our Savior was not
averse to the use of remedies whic,:
had a tendency to relieve and restc7e e.
In this case the Good Samaritan gave
evidence % his compassion, not by
administering a high attenuation of
truth" but by bathing the mans
wounds in oil and wine. 1 presume
Mrs. Eddy would have us believe that
what the Samaritan poured in was
neither oil nor wine, for liz her GIGS
sary to which I have referred, she
defines oil as 'gentleness; prayer" and
wine she defines as error, forniea-
ton" According to Mrs. Eddy the Sa-
maritan poured in a mixture of gem
tleness, prayer, error and fornication
Now / am very strongly of the opinion
that if such a concoction as this had
been poured in, the poor man would
never have lived to reach the wayside
inn. Compared with such treatment.
the cruelty practiced by the highway
robbers would seem like an exhibition
of tender mercy.
We have viewed it from the point of
selfishness and criminal negligence at
least in the death of so many little
children neglected and deprived Of