PERFIDY AND SLANDER
9 What has an individual gained by losing his own self-
respect? or what has he lost when, retaining his own,
he loses the homage of fools, or the pretentious praise of
12

hypocrites, false to themselves as to others?

Shakespeare, the immortal lexicographer of mortals,
writes: -
15 To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
18 When Aristotle was asked what a person could gain
by uttering a falsehood, he replied, "Not to be credited
when he shall tell the truth."
21 The character of a liar and hypocrite is so contempti-
ble, that even of those who have lost their honor it might
be expected that from the violation of truth they should
24

be restrained by their pride.

Perfidy of an inferior quality, such as manages to evade
the law, and which dignified natures cannot stoop to
27

notice, except legally, disgraces human nature more than
do most vices.

Slander is a midnight robber; the red-tongued assas-
30

sin of radical worth; the conservative swindler, who

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1 sells himself in a traffic by which he can gain nothing.
It can retire for forgiveness to no fraternity where its
3 crime may stand in the place of a virtue; but must at
length be given up to the hisses of the multitude, with-
out friend and without apologist.
6 Law has found it necessary to offer to the innocent,
security from slanderers - those pests of society - when
their crime comes within its jurisdiction. Thus, to evade
9 the penalty of law, and yet with malice aforethought to
extend their evil intent, is the nice distinction by which
they endeavor to get their weighty stuff into the hands
12 of gossip! Some uncharitable one may give it a forward
move, and, ere that one himself become aware, find
himself responsible for kind (?) endeavors.
15 Would that my pen or pity could raise these weak,
pitifully poor objects from their choice of self-degrada-
tion to the nobler purposes and wider aims of a life made
18 honest: a life in which the fresh flowers of feeling blos-
som, and, like the camomile, the more trampled upon,
the sweeter the odor they send forth to benefit mankind;
21 a life wherein calm, self-respected thoughts abide in
tabernacles of their own, dwelling upon a holy hill, speak-
ing the truth in the heart; a life wherein the mind can
24 rest in green pastures, beside the still waters, on isles
of sweet refreshment. The sublime summary of an
honest life satisfies the mind craving a higher good, and
27 bathes it in the cool waters of peace on earth; till it
grows into the full stature of wisdom, reckoning its
own by the amount of happiness it has bestowed upon
30

others.

Not to avenge one's self upon one's enemies, is the
command of almighty wisdom; and we take this to be

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1 a safer guide than the promptings of human nature.
To know that a deception dark as it is base has been
3 practised upon thee, - by those deemed at least indebted
friends whose welfare thou hast promoted, - and yet
not to avenge thyself, is to do good to thyself; is to take
6 a new standpoint whence to look upward; is to be calm
amid excitement, just amid lawlessness, and pure amid
corruption.
9 To be a great man or woman, to have a name whose
odor fills the world with its fragrance, is to bear with
patience the buffetings of envy or malice - even while
12 seeking to raise those barren natures to a capacity for a
higher life. We should look with pitying eye on the
momentary success of all villainies, on mad ambition
15 and low revenge. This will bring us also to look on a
kind, true, and just person, faithful to conscience and
honest beyond reproach, as the only suitable fabric out
18

of which to weave an existence fit for earth and
heaven.

CONTAGION
21 Whatever man sees, feels, or in any way takes cog-
nizance of, must be caught through mind; inasmuch
as perception, sensation, and consciousness belong to
24 mind and not to matter. Floating with the popular
current of mortal thought without questioning the re-
liability of its conclusions, we do what others do,
27 believe what others believe, and say what others say.
Common consent is contagious, and it makes disease
catching.
30

People believe in infectious and contagious diseases,

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1 and that any one is liable to have them under certain
predisposing or exciting causes. This mental state pre-
3 pares one to have any disease whenever there appear the
circumstances which he believes produce it. If he believed
as sincerely that health is catching when exposed to con-
6 tact with healthy people, he would catch their state of
feeling quite as surely and with better effect than he does
the sick man's.
9 If only the people would believe that good is more
contagious than evil, since God is omnipresence, how
much more certain would be the doctor's success, and
12 the clergyman's conversion of sinners. And if only the
pulpit would encourage faith in God in this direction
and faith in Mind over all other influences governing
15 the receptivity of the body, theology would teach man
as David taught: "Because thou hast made the Lord,
which is my refuge, even the most High thy habitation;
18

there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague
come nigh thy dwelling."

The confidence of mankind in contagious disease would
21 thus become beautifully less; and in the same propor-
tion would faith in the power of God to heal and to save
mankind increase, until the whole human race would
24 become healthier, holier, happier, and longer lived. A
calm, Christian state of mind is a better preventive of
contagion than a drug, or than any other possible sana-
27

tive method; and the "perfect Love" that "casteth out
fear" is a sure defense.

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IMPROVE YOUR TIME

Success in life depends upon persistent effort, upon
3 the improvement of moments more than upon any other
one thing. A great amount of time is consumed in talking
nothing, doing nothing, and indecision as to what one
6

should do. If one would be successful in the future, let
him make the most of the present.

Three ways of wasting time, one of which is con-
9 temptible, are gossiping mischief, making lingering calls,
and mere motion when at work, thinking of nothing or
planning for some amusement, - travel of limb more
12

than mind. Rushing around smartly is no proof of ac-
complishing much.

All successful individuals have become such by hard
15 work; by improving moments before they pass into hours,
and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit
of pleasure. They spend no time in sheer idleness, in
18 talking when they have nothing to say, in building air-
castles or floating off on the wings of sense: all of which
drop human life into the ditch of nonsense, and worse
21

than waste its years.

"Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
24

Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."

THANKSGIVING DINNER
27

It was a beautiful group! needing but canvas and the
touch of an artist to render it pathetic, tender, gorgeous.

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1 Age, on whose hoary head the almond-blossom formed a
crown of glory; middle age, in smiles and the full fruition
3 of happiness; infancy, exuberant with joy, - ranged side
by side. The sober-suited grandmother, rich in ex-
perience, had seen sunshine and shadow fall upon ninety-
6 six years. Four generations sat at that dinner-table.
The rich viands made busy many appetites; but, what
of the poor! Willingly - though I take no stock in
9

spirit-rappings - would I have had the table give a
spiritual groan for the unfeasted ones.

Under the skilful carving of the generous host, the
12 mammoth turkey grew beautifully less. His was the
glory to vie with guests in the dexterous use of knife and
fork, until delicious pie, pudding, and fruit caused un-
15

conditional surrender.

And the baby! Why, he made a big hole, with two
incisors, in a big pippin, and bit the finger presump-
18 tuously poked into the little mouth to arrest the peel!
Then he was caught walking! one, two, three steps, -
and papa knew that he could walk, but grandpa was
21 taken napping. Now! baby has tumbled, soft as thistle-
down, on the floor; and instead of a real set-to at crying,
a look of cheer and a toy from mamma bring the soft
24 little palms patting together, and pucker the rosebud
mouth into saying, "Oh, pretty!" That was a scientific
baby; and his first sitting-at-table on Thanksgiving Day
27 - yes, and his little rainbowy life - brought sunshine
to every heart. How many homes echo such tones of
heartfelt joy on Thanksgiving Day! But, alas! for the
30

desolate home; for the tear-filled eyes looking longingly
at the portal through which the loved one comes not, or
gazing silently on the vacant seat at fireside and board -

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1 God comfort them all! we inwardly prayed - but the
memory was too much; and, turning from it, in a bumper
3

of pudding-sauce we drank to peace, and plenty, and
happy households.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
6 This age is reaching out towards the perfect Principle
of things; is pushing towards perfection in art, inven-
tion, and manufacture. Why, then, should religion be
9 stereotyped, and we not obtain a more perfect and prac-
tical Christianity? It will never do to be behind the
times in things most essential, which proceed from the
12 standard of right that regulates human destiny. Human
skill but foreshadows what is next to appear as its divine
origin. Proportionately as we part with material systems
15 and theories, personal doctrines and dogmas, meekly to
ascend the hill of Science, shall we reach the maximum
of perfection in all things.
18 Spirit is omnipotent; hence a more spiritual Chris-
tianity will be one having more power, having perfected
in Science that most important of all arts, - healing.
21 Metaphysical healing, or Christian Science, is a de-
mand of the times. Every man and every woman would
desire and demand it, if he and she knew its infinite
24 value and firm basis. The unerring and fixed Principle
of all healing is God; and this Principle should be
sought from the love of good, from the most spiritual
27

and unselfish motives. Then will it be understood to be
of God, and not of man; and this will prevent mankind
from striking out promiscuously, teaching and practising

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in the name of Science without knowing its fundamental
Principle.
3 It is important to know that a malpractice of the best
system will result in the worst form of medicine. More-
over, the feverish, disgusting pride of those who call
6 themselves metaphysicians or Scientists, - but are such
in name only, - fanned by the breath of mental mal-
practice, is the death's-head at the feast of Truth; the
9 monkey in harlequin jacket that will retard the onward
march of life-giving Science, if not understood and with-
stood, and so strangled in its attempts.
12 The standard of metaphysical healing is traduced by
thinking to put into the old garment of drugging the new
cloth of metaphysics; or by trying to twist the fatal
15 magnetic force of mortal mind, termed hypnotism, into
a more fashionable cut and naming that "mind-cure,"
or - which is still worse in the eyes of Truth - terming
18 it metaphysics! Substituting good words for a good life,
fair-seeming for straightforward character, mental mal-
practice for the practice of true medicine, is a poor shift
21

for the weak and worldly who think the standard of
Christian Science too high for them.

What think you of a scientist in mathematics who finds
24 fault with the exactness of the rule because unwilling to
work hard enough to practise it? The perfection of the
rule of Christian Science is what constitutes its utility:
27 having a true standard, if some fall short, others will
approach it; and these are they only who adhere to that
standard.
30

Matter must be understood as a false belief or product
of mortal mind: whence we learn that sensation is not
in matter, but in this so-called mind; that we see and

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1 feel disease only by reason of our belief in it: then shall
matter remain no longer to blind us to Spirit, and clog
3 the wheels of progress. We spread our wings in vain when
we attempt to mount above error by speculative views
of Truth.
6 Love is the Principle of divine Science; and Love is
not learned of the material senses, nor gained by a culpa-
ble attempt to seem what we have not lifted ourselves
9 to be, namely, a Christian. In love for man, we gain a
true sense of Love as God; and in no other way can we
reach this spiritual sense, and rise - and still rise - to
12 things most essential and divine. What hinders man's
progress is his vain conceit, the Phariseeism of the times,
also his effort to steal from others and avoid hard work;
15 errors which can never find a place in Science. Empiri-
cal knowledge is worse than useless: it never has advanced
man a single step in the scale of being.
18 That one should have ventured on such unfamiliar
ground, and, self-forgetful, should have gone on to estab-
lish this mighty system of metaphysical healing, called
21 Christian Science, against such odds, - even the entire
current of mortality, - is matter of grave wonderment to
profound thinkers. That, in addition to this, she has made
24 some progress, has seen far into the spiritual facts of be-
ing which constitute physical and mental perfection, in
the midst of an age so sunken in sin and sensuality, seems
27

to them still more inconceivable.

In this new departure of metaphysics, God is regarded
more as absolute, supreme; and Christ is clad with a
30

so richer illumination as our Saviour from sickness, sin,
and death. God's fatherliness as Life, Truth, and Love,
makes His sovereignty glorious.

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1 By this system, too, man has a changed recognition
of his relation to God. He is no longer obliged to sin,
3 be sick, and die to reach heaven, but is required and em-
powered to conquer sin, sickness, and death; thus, as
image and likeness, to reflect Him who destroys death
6

and hell. By this reflection, man becomes the partaker
of that Mind whence sprang the universe.

In Christian Science, progress is demonstration, not
9 doctrine. This Science is ameliorative and regenerative,
delivering mankind from all error through the light and
love of Truth. It gives to the race loftier desires and new
12 possibilities. It lays the axe at the root of the tree of
knowledge, to cut down all that bringeth not forth good
fruit; "and blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended
15 in me." It touches mind to more spiritual issues, sys-
tematizes action, gives a keener sense of Truth and a
stronger desire for it.
18 Hungering and thirsting after a better life, we shall
have it, and become Christian Scientists; learn God
aright, and know something of the ideal man, the real
21 man, harmonious and eternal. This movement of thought
must push on the ages: it must start the wheels of reason
aright, educate the affections to higher resources, and
24

leave Christianity unbiased by the superstitions of a
senior period.

INJUSTICE
27

Who that has tried to follow the divine precept, "All
things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto
you, do ye even so to them," has not suffered from the

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1 situation? - has not found that human passions in their
reaction have misjudged motives?
3 Throughout our experience since undertaking the
labor of uplifting the race, we have been made the re-
pository of little else than the troubles, indiscretions,
6 and errors of others; until thought has shrunk from
contact with family difficulties, and become weary with
study to counsel wisely whenever giving advice on per-
9

sonal topics.

To the child complaining of his parents we have said,
"Love and honor thy parents, and yield obedience to
12 them in all that is right; but you have the rights of con-
science, as we all have, and must follow God in all your
ways."
15 When yielding to constant solicitations of husband or
wife to give, to one or the other, advice concerning diffi-
culties and the best way to overcome them, we have done
18 this to the best of our ability, - and always with the pur-
pose to restore harmony and prevent dishonor. In such
cases we have said, "Take no counsel of a mortal, even
21 though it be your best friend; but be guided by God
alone;" meaning by this, Be not estranged from each
other by anything that is said to you, but seek in divine
24

Love the remedy for all human discord.

Yet, notwithstanding one's good intentions, in some
way or at some step in one's efforts to help another, as
27

a general rule, one will be blamed for all that is not right:
but this must not deter us from doing our duty, whatever
else may appear, and at whatever cost.

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REFORMERS

The olden opinion that hell is fire and brimstone, has
3 yielded somewhat to the metaphysical fact that suffering
is a thing of mortal mind instead of body: so, in place
of material flames and odor, mental anguish is generally
6 accepted as the penalty for sin. This changed belief
has wrought a change in the actions of men. Not a few
individuals serve God (or try to) from fear; but remove
9 that fear, and the worst of human passions belch forth
their latent fires. Some people never repent until earth
gives them such a cup of gall that conscience strikes home;
12 then they are brought to realize how impossible it is to
sin and not suffer. All the different phases of error in
human nature the reformer must encounter and help to
15

eradicate.

This period is not essentially one of conscience: few
feel and live now as when this nation began, and our
18 forefathers' prayers blended with the murmuring winds
of their forest home. This is a period of doubt, inquiry,
speculation, selfishness; of divided interests, marvellous
21 good, and mysterious evil. But sin can only work out
its own destruction; and reform does and must push on
the growth of mankind.
24 Honor to faithful merit is delayed, and always has
been; but it is sure to follow. The very streets through
which Garrison was dragged were draped in honor of
27 the dead hero who did the hard work, the immortal work,
of loosing the fetters of one form of human slavery. I
remember, when a girl, and he visited my father, how a
30

childish fear clustered round his coming. I had heard

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1 the awful story that "he helped 'niggers' kill the white
folks!" Even the loving children are sometimes made
3 to believe a lie, and to hate reformers. It is pleasant,
now, to contrast with that childhood's wrong the reverence
of my riper years for all who dare to be true, honest to
6

their convictions, and strong of purpose.

The reformer has no time to give in defense of his
own life's incentive, since no sacrifice is too great for the
9 silent endurance of his love. What has not unselfed love
achieved for the race? All that ever was accomplished,
and more than history has yet recorded. The reformer
12 works on unmentioned, save when he is abused or his
work is utilized in the interest of somebody. He may
labor for the establishment of a cause which is fraught
15 with infinite blessings, - health, virtue, and heaven;
but what of all that? Who should care for everybody?
It is enough, say they, to care for a few. Yet the good
18 done, and the love that foresees more to do, stimulate
philanthropy and are an ever-present reward. Let one's
life answer well these questions, and it already hath a
21

benediction:

Have you renounced self? Are you faithful? Do
you love?

MRS. EDDY SICK

The frequent public allegement that I am "sick, unable
to speak a loud word," or that I died of palsy, and am
27

dead, - is but another evidence of the falsehoods kept
constantly before the public.

While I accord these evil-mongers due credit for their

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1 desire, let me say to you, dear reader: Call at the
Massachusetts Metaphysical College, in 1889, and judge
3 for yourself whether I can talk-and laugh too! I
never was in better health. I have had but four
days' vacation for the past year, and am about to com-
6 mence a large class in Christian Science. Lecturing,
writing, preaching, teaching, etc., give fair proof that
my shadow is not growing less; and substance is taking
9

larger proportions.

"I'VE GOT COLD"

Out upon the sidewalk one winter morning, I observed
12 a carriage draw up before a stately mansion; a portly
gentleman alight, and take from his carriage the ominous
hand-trunk.
15

"Ah!" thought I, "somebody has to take it; and what
may the potion be?"

Just then a tiny, sweet face appeared in the vestibule,
18

and red nose, suffused eyes, cough, and tired look, told
the story; but, looking up quaintly, the poor child said, -

"I've got cold, doctor."
21 Her apparent pride at sharing in a popular influenza
was comical. However, her dividend, when compared
with that of the household stockholders, was new; and
24

doubtless their familiarity with what the stock paid, made
them more serious over it.

What if that sweet child, so bravely confessing that
27 she had something that she ought not to have, and which
mamma thought must be gotten rid of, had been taught
the value of saying even more bravely, and believing
30

it, -

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1

"I have not got cold."

Why, the doctor's squills and bills would have been
3 avoided; and through the cold air the little one would
have been bounding with sparkling eyes, and ruby cheeks
painted and fattened by metaphysical hygiene.
6 Parents and doctors must not take the sweet freshness
out of the children's lives by that flippant caution, "You
will get cold."
9 Predicting danger does not dignify life, whereas fore-
casting liberty and joy does; for these are strong pro-
moters of health and happiness. All education should
12 contribute to moral and physical strength and freedom.
If a cold could get into the body without the assent of
mind, nature would take it out as gently, or let it remain
15

as harmlessly, as it takes the frost out of the ground or
puts it into the ice-cream to the satisfaction of all.

The sapling bends to the breeze, while the sturdy oak,
18 with form and inclination fixed, breasts the tornado. It
is easier to incline the early thought rightly, than the
biased mind. Children not mistaught, naturally love
21 God; for they are pure-minded, affectionate, and gen-
erally brave. Passions, appetites, pride, selfishness, have
slight sway over the fresh, unbiased thought.
24 Teach the children early self-government, and teach
them nothing that is wrong. If they see their father with
a cigarette in his mouth - suggest to them that the habit
27 of smoking is not nice, and that nothing but a loathsome
worm naturally chews tobacco. Likewise soberly inform
them that "Battle-Axe Plug" takes off men's heads; or,
30

leaving these on, that it takes from their bodies a sweet
something which belongs to nature, - namely, pure
odors.

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1 From a religious point of view, the faith of both youth
and adult should centre as steadfastly in God to benefit
3 the body, as to benefit the mind. Body and mind are
correlated in man's salvation; for man will no more
enter heaven sick than as a sinner, and Christ's Christi-
6

anity casts out sickness as well as sin of every sort.

Test, if you will, metaphysical healing on two patients:
one having morals to be healed, the other having a physi-
9 cal ailment. Use as your medicine the great alterative,
Truth: give to the immoralist a mental dose that says,
"You have no pleasure in sin," and witness the effects.
12 Either he will hate you, and try to make others do like-
wise, so taking a dose of error big enough apparently to
neutralize your Truth, else he will doubtingly await the
15 result; during which interim, by constant combat and
direful struggles, you get the victory and Truth heals him
of the moral malady.
18 On the other hand, to the bedridden sufferer admin-
ister this alterative Truth: "God never made you sick:
there is no necessity for pain; and Truth destroys the
21 error that insists on the necessity of any man's bondage
to sin and sickness. 'Ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free."'
24 Then, like blind Bartimeus, the doubting heart looks
up through faith, and your patient rejoices in the gospel
of health.
27 Thus, you see, it is easier to heal the physical than the
moral ailment. When divine Truth and Love heal, of
sin, the sinner who is at ease in sin, how much more should
30

these heal, of sickness, the sick who are dis-eased, dis-
comforted, and who long for relief !

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"PRAYER AND HEALING"

The article of Professor T- , having the above cap-
3 tion, published in Zion's Herald, December third, came
not to my notice until January ninth. In it the Professor
offered me, as President of the Metaphysical College in
6 Boston, or one of my students, the liberal sum of one
thousand dollars if either would reset certain dislocations
without the use of hands, and two thousand dollars if
9

either would give sight to one born blind.

Will the gentleman accept my thanks due to his gener-
osity; for, if I should accept his bid on Christianity, he
12

would lose his money.

Why?

Because I performed more difficult tasks fifteen years
15 ago. At present, I am in another department of Christian
work, "where there shall no signs be given them," for
they shall be instructed in the Principle of Christian
18

Science that furnishes its own proof.

But, to reward his liberality, I offer him three thou-
sand dollars if he will heal one single case of opium-eating
21 where the patient is very low and taking morphine powder
in its most concentrated form, at the rate of one ounce in
two weeks, - having taken it twenty years; and he is to
24

cure that habit in three days, leaving the patient well. I
cured precisely such a case in 1869.

Also, Mr. C. M. H - , of Boston, formerly partner
27 of George T. Brown, pharmacist, No. 5 Beacon St., will
tell you that he was my student in December, 1884; and
that before leaving the class he took a patient thoroughly
30

addicted to the use of opium - if she went without it

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1 twenty-four hours she would have delirium - and in
forty-eight hours cured her perfectly of this habit,
3

with no bad results, but with decided improvement in
health.

I have not yet made surgery one of the mental branches
6 taught in my college; although students treat sprains,
contusions, etc., successfully. In the case of sprain of the
wrist joint, where the regular doctor had put on splints
9 and bandages to remain six weeks, a student of mine
removed these appliances the same day and effected the
cure in less than one week. Reference, Mrs. M. A. F -,
12

107 Eutaw Street, East Boston.

I agree with the Professor, that every system of medi-
cine claims more than it practises. If the system is Science,
15 it includes of necessity the Principle, which the learner
can demonstrate only in proportion as he understands it.
Boasting is unbecoming a mortal's poor performances.
18 My Christian students are proverbially modest: their
works alone should declare them, since my system of medi-
cine is not generally understood. There are charlatans
21

in "mind-cure," who practise on the basis of matter, or
human will, not Mind.

The Professor alludes to Paul's advice to Timothy.
24 Did he refer to that questionable counsel, "Take a little
wine for thy stomach's sake"? Even doctors disagree
on that prescription: some of the medical faculty will
27 tell you that alcoholic drinks cause the coats of the stomach
to thicken and the organ to contract; will prevent the
secretions of the gastric juice, and induce ulceration,
30

bleeding, vomiting, death.

Again, the Professor quotes, in justification of material
methods, and as veritable: "He took a bone from the

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1 side of Adam, closed up the wound thereof, and builded
up the woman." (Gen. ii. 21.)
3 Here we have the Professor on the platform of Christian
Science! even a "surgical operation" that he says was
performed by divine power, - Mind alone constructing
6

the human system, before surgical instruments were
invented, and closing the incisions of the flesh.

He further states that God cannot save the soul without
9 compliance to ordained conditions. But, we ask, have
those conditions named in Genesis been perpetuated in
the multiplication of mankind? And, are the conditions
12 of salvation mental, or physical; are they bodily penance
and torture, or repentance and reform, which are the
action of mind ?
15

He asks, "Has the law been abrogated that demands
the employment of visible agencies for specific ends?"

Will he accept my reply as derived from the life and
18 teachings of Jesus? - who annulled the so-called laws of
matter by the higher law of Spirit, causing him to walk
the wave, turn the water into wine, make the blind to see,
21 the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and the dead to be
raised without matter-agencies. And he did this for man's
example; not to teach himself, but others, the way of
24

healing and salvation. He said, "And other sheep I have,
which are not of this fold."

The teachings and demonstration of Jesus were for
27 all peoples and for all time; not for a privileged class or
a restricted period, but for as many as should believe in
him.
30

Are the discoverers of quinine, cocaine, etc., espe-
cially the children of our Lord because of their medical
discoveries?

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1 We have no record showing that our Master ever used,
or recommended others to use, drugs; but we have his
3 words, and the prophet's, as follows: "Take no thought,
saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?"
"And Asa . . . sought not to the Lord, but to the phy-
6

sicians. And Asa slept with his fathers."

VERITAS ODIUM PARIT

The combined efforts of the materialistic portion of
9 the pulpit and press in 1885, to retard by misrepresen-
tation the stately goings of Christian Science, are giving
it new impetus and energy; calling forth the vox populi
12 and directing more critical observation to its uplifting
influence upon the health, morals, and spirituality of
mankind.
15 Their movements indicate fear and weakness, a physi-
cal and spiritual need that Christian Science should re-
move with glorious results. The conclusion cannot now
18 be pushed, that women have no rights that man is bound
to respect. This is woman's hour, in all the good tend-
encies, charities, and reforms of to-day. It is difficult
21

to say which may be most mischievous to the human
heart, the praise or the dispraise of men.

I have loved the Church and followed it, thinking that
24 it was following Christ; but, if the pulpit allows the people
to go no further in the direction of Christlikeness, and
rejects apostolic Christianity, seeking to stereotype infinite
27

Truth, it is a thing to be thankful for that one can walk
alone the straight and narrow way; that, in the words of
Wendell Phillips, "one with God is a majority."

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1 It is the pulpit and press, clerical robes and the pro-
hibiting of free speech, that cradles and covers the sins of
3 the world, - all unmitigated systems of crime; and it
requires the enlightenment of these worthies, through
civil and religious reform, to blot out all inhuman codes.
6 It was the Southern pulpit and press that influenced the
people to wrench from man both human and divine rights,
in order to subserve the interests of wealth, religious caste,
9 civil and political power. And the pulpit had to be
purged of that sin by human gore, - when the love of
Christ would have washed it divinely away in Christian
12

Science!

The cry of the colored slave has scarcely been heard
and hushed, when from another direction there comes
15 another sharp cry of oppression. Another form of inhu-
manity lifts its hydra head to forge anew the old fetters;
to shackle conscience, stop free speech, slander, vilify;
18

to invite its prey, then turn and refuse the victim a solitary
vindication in this most unprecedented warfare.

A conflict more terrible than the battle of Gettysburg
21 awaits the crouching wrong that refused to yield its
prey the peace of a desert, when a voice was heard
crying in the wilderness, - the spiritual famine of 1866,
24

- "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths
straight."

Shall religious intolerance, arrayed against the rights
27 of man, again deluge the earth in blood? The question
at issue with mankind is: Shall we have a spiritual Chris-
tianity and a spiritual healing, or a materialistic religion
30

and a materia medica?

The advancing faith and hope of Christianity, the
earnest seeking after practical truth that shall cast out

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1 error and heal the sick, wisely demand for man his God-
given heritage, both human and divine rights; namely,
3 that his honest convictions and proofs of advancing truth
be allowed due consideration, and treated not as pearls
trampled upon.
6 Those familiar with my history are more tolerant; those
who know me, know that I found health in just what I
teach. I have professed Christianity a half-century; and
9 now I calmly challenge the world, upon fair investigation,
to furnish a single instance of departure in one of my
works from the highest possible ethics.
12 The charges against my views are false, but natural,
since those bringing them do not understand my state-
ment of the Science I introduce, and are unwilling to be
15 taught it, even gratuitously. If they did understand it, they
could demonstrate this Science by healing the sick; hence
the injustice of their interpretations.
18 To many, the healing force developed by Christian
Science seems a mystery, because they do not understand
that Spirit controls body. They acknowledge the exist-
21 ence of mortal mind, but believe it to reside in matter
of the brain; but that man is the idea of infinite Mind,
is not so easily accepted. That which is temporary
24 seems, to the common estimate, solid and substantial.
It is much easier for people to believe that the body
affects mind, than that the body is an expression of
27

mind, and reflects harmony or discord according to
thought.

Everything that God created, He pronounced good.
30

He never made sickness. Hence that is only an evil belief
of mortal mind, which must be met, in every instance,
with a denial by Truth.

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1 This is the "new tongue," the language of them that
"lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover," whose
3 spiritual interpretation they refuse to hear. For instance:
the literal meaning of the passage "lay hands on the sick"
would be manipulation; its moral meaning, found in the
6

"new tongue," is spiritual power, - as, in another Scrip-
ture, "I will triumph in the works of Thy hands."

FALSEHOOD
9 The Greeks showed a just estimate of the person they
called slanderer, when they made the word synonymous
with devil. If the simple falsehoods uttered about me
12 were compounded, the mixture would be labelled thus:
"Religionists' mistaken views of Mrs. Eddy's book, 'Sci-
ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' and the
15

malice aforethought of sinners."

That I take opium; that I am an infidel, a mesmerist,
a medium, a "pantheist;" or that my hourly life is prayer-
18 less, or not in strict obedience to the Mosaic Decalogue, -
is not more true than that I am dead, as is oft reported.
The St. Louis Democrat is alleged to have reported my
21

demise, and to have said that I died of poison, and be-
queathed my property to Susan Anthony.

The opium falsehood has only this to it: Many years
24 ago my regular physician prescribed morphine, which I
took, when he could do no more for me. Afterwards,
the glorious revelations of Christian Science saved me
27

from that necessity and made me well, since which time
I have not taken drugs, with the following exception:
When the mental malpractice of poisoning people was

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1 first undertaken by a mesmerist, to test that malprac-
tice I experimented by taking some large doses of mor-
3 phine, to see if Christian Science could not obviate its
effect; and I say with tearful thanks, "The drug had
no effect upon me whatever." The hour has struck,
6

- "If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt
them."

The false report that I have appropriated other people's
9 manuscripts in my works, has been met and answered
legally. Both in private and public life, and especially
through my teachings, it is well known that I am not a
12 spiritualist, a pantheist, or prayerless. The most devout
members of evangelical churches will say this, as well as
my intimate acquaintances. None are permitted to re-
15 main in my College building whose morals are not un-
questionable. I have neither purchased nor ordered a
drug since my residence in Boston; and to my knowledge,
18

not one has been sent to my house, unless it was something
to remove stains or vermin.

The report that I was dead arose no doubt from the
21 combined efforts of some malignant students, expelled
from my College for immorality, to kill me: of their mental
design to do this I have proof, but no fear. My heavenly
24

Father will never leave me comfortless, in the amplitude
of His love; coming nearer in my need, more tenderly to
save and bless.

LOVE

What a word! I am in awe before it. Over what
worlds on worlds it hath range and is sovereign! the un-

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1 derived, the incomparable, the infinite All of good, the
alone God, is Love.
3 By what strange perversity is the best become the most
abused, - either as a quality or as an entity? Mortals
misrepresent and miscall affection; they make it what
6 it is not, and doubt what it is. The so-called affection
pursuing its victim is a butcher fattening the lamb to
slay it. What the lower propensities express, should be
9 repressed by the sentiments. No word is more mis-
construed; no sentiment less understood. The divine
significance of Love is distorted into human qualities,
12

which in their human abandon become jealousy and
hate.

Love is not something put upon a shelf, to be taken
15 down on rare occasions with sugar-tongs and laid on a
rose-leaf. I make strong demands on love, call for active
witnesses to prove it, and noble sacrifices and grand
18 achievements as its results. Unless these appear, I cast
aside the word as a sham and counterfeit, having no ring
of the true metal. Love cannot be a mere abstraction, or
21 goodness without activity and power. As a human quality,
the glorious significance of affection is more than words:
it is the tender, unselfish deed done in secret; the silent,
24 ceaseless prayer; the self-forgetful heart that overflows;
the veiled form stealing on an errand of mercy, out of a
side door; the little feet tripping along the sidewalk; the
27

gentle hand opening the door that turns toward want and
woe, sickness and sorrow, and thus lighting the dark
places of earth.

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ADDRESS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY AT PLEASANT VIEW,

CONCORD, N. H., BEFORE 2,500 MEMBERS OF THE

MOTHER CHURCH, 1897

My beloved brethren, who have come all the way from
the Pacific to the Atlantic shore, from the Palmetto to the
6

Pine Tree State, I greet you; my hand may not touch
yours to-day, but my heart will with tenderness untalkable.

His Honor, Mayor Woodworth, has welcomed you to
9 Concord most graciously, voicing the friendship of this
city and of my native State - loyal to the heart's core to
religion, home, friends, and country.
12 To-day we commemorate not only our nation's civil
and religious freedom, but a greater even, the liberty of
the sons of God, the inalienable rights and radiant reality
15 of Christianity, whereof our Master said: "The works
that I do shall he do;" and, "The kingdom of God cometh
not with observation" (with knowledge obtained from
18

the senses), but "the kingdom of God is within you," -
within the present possibilities of mankind.

Think of this inheritance! Heaven right here, where
21 angels are as men, clothed more lightly, and men as angels
who, burdened for an hour, spring into liberty, and the
good they would do, that they do, and the evil they would
24

not do, that they do not.

From the falling leaves of old-time faiths men learn a
parable of the period, that all error, physical, moral, or
27

religious, will fall before Truth demonstrated, even as
dry leaves fall to enrich the soil for fruitage.

Sin, sickness, and disease flee before the evangel of
30

Truth as the mountain mists before the sun. Truth is

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1 the tonic for the sick, and this medicine of Mind is not
necessarily infinitesimal but infinite. Herein the mental
3 medicine of divine metaphysics and the medical systems
of allopathy and homoeopathy differ. Mental medi-
cine gains no potency by attenuation, and its largest
6

dose is never dangerous, but the more the better in every
case.

Christian Science classifies thought thus: Right thoughts
9 are reality and power; wrong thoughts are unreality and
powerless, possessing the nature of dreams. Good thoughts
are potent; evil thoughts are impotent, and they should
12 appear thus. Continuing this category, we learn that
sick thoughts are unreality and weakness; while healthy
thoughts are reality and strength. My proof of these
15

novel propositions is demonstration, whereby any man
can satisfy himself of their verity.

Christian Science is not only the acme of Science
18 but the crown of Christianity. It is universal. It ap-
peals to man as man; to the whole and not to a por-
tion; to man physically, as well as spiritually, and to all
21

mankind.

It has one God. It demonstrates the divine Principle,
rules and practice of the great healer and master of meta-
24 physics, Jesus of Nazareth. It spiritualizes religion and
restores its lost element, namely, healing the sick. It
consecrates and inspires the teacher and preacher; it
27 equips the doctor with safe and sure medicine; it en-
courages and empowers the business man and secures
the success of honesty. It is the dear children's toy and
30

strong tower; the wise man's spiritual dictionary; the
poor man's money; yea, it is the pearl priceless whereof
our Master said, if a man findeth, he goeth and selleth

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1 all that he hath and buyeth it. Buyeth it! Note the
scope of that saying, even that Christianity is not merely
3 a gift, as St. Paul avers, but is bought with a price, a great
price; and what man knoweth as did our Master its
value, and the price that he paid for it?
6 Friends, I am not enough the new woman of the period
for outdoor speaking, and the incidental platform is not
broad enough for me, but the speakers that will now ad-
9

dress you - one a congressman - may improve our
platforms; and make amends for the nothingness of
matter with the allness of Mind.

WELL DOINGE IS THE FRUITE OF DOINGE WELL

HERRICK

This period is big with events. Fraught with history,
15

it repeats the past and portends much for the future.

The Scriptural metaphors, - of the woman in travail,
the great red dragon that stood ready to devour the child
18 as soon as it was born, and the husbandmen that said,
"This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the in-
heritance may be ours," - are type and shadow of this
21

hour.

A mother's love touches the heart of God, and should
it not appeal to human sympathy? Can a mother tell
24 her child one tithe of the agonies that gave that child
birth? Can that child conceive of the anguish, until she
herself is become a mother?
27

Do the children of this period dream of the spiritual
Mother's sore travail, through the long night, that has
opened their eyes to the light of Christian Science? Cherish

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1 these new-born children that filial obedience to which the
Decalogue points with promise of prosperity? Should not
3 the loving warning, the far-seeing wisdom, the gentle en-
treaty, the stern rebuke have been heeded, in return for
all that love which brooded tireless over their tender
6 years? for all that love that hath fed them with Truth, -
even the bread that cometh down from heaven, - as the
mother-bird tendeth her young in the rock-ribbed nest of
9

the raven's callow brood!

And what of the hope of that parent whose children
rise up against her; when brother slays brother, and
12 the strength of union grows weak with wickedness?
The victim of mad ambition that saith, "This is
the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance
15 may be ours," goes on to learn that he must at last
kill this evil in "self" in order to gain the kingdom
of God.
18 Envy, the great red dragon of this hour, would obscure
the light of Science, take away a third part of the stars
from the spiritual heavens, and cast them to the earth.
21 This is not Science. Per contra, it is the mortal mind
sense - mental healing on a material basis - hurling
its so-called healing at random, filling with hate its
24 deluded victims, or resting in silly peace upon the
laurels of headlong human will. "What shall, therefore,
the Lord of the vineyard do? He will come and de-
27

stroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto
others."

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LITTLE GODS

It is sometimes said, cynically, that Christian Scien-
3

tists set themselves on pedestals, as so many petty deities;
but there is no fairness or propriety in the aspersion.

Man is not equal to his Maker. That which is formed
6 is not cause, but effect; and has no underived power.
But it is possible, and dutiful, to throw the weight of
thought and action on the side of right, and to be thus
9

lifted up.

Man should be found not claiming equality with, but
growing into, that altitude of Mind which was in Christ
12 Jesus. He should comprehend, in divine Science, a
recognition of what the apostle meant when he said:
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that
15

we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ."

ADVANTAGE OF MIND-HEALING
18

It is sometimes asked, What are the advantages of your
system of healing?

I claim for healing by Christian Science the following
21

advantages: -

First: It does away with material medicine, and rec-
ognizes the fact that the antidote for sickness, as well
24

as for sin, may be found in God, the divine Mind.

Second: It is more effectual than drugs, and cures
where they fail, because it is this divine antidote, and
27

metaphysics is above physics.

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1 Third: Persons who have been healed by Christian
Science are not only cured of their belief in disease, but
3

they are at the same time improved morally. The body
is governed by Mind, and mortal mind must be corrected
in order to make the body harmonious.

A CARD

While gratefully acknowledging the public confidence
manifested in daily letters that protest against receiving
9 instruction in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College
from any other than Mrs. Eddy, I feel, deeply, that of
necessity this imposes on me the severe task of remain-
12 ing at present a public servant: also, that this must pre-
vent my classes from forming as frequently as was an-
nounced in the October number of the Journal, and
15 necessitates receiving but a select number of students.
To meet the old impediment, lack of time, that has oc-
casioned the irregular intervals between my class terms,
18

I shall continue to send to each applicant a notice from
one to two weeks previous to the opening term.
MARY BAKER G. EDDY

SPIRIT AND LAW

We are accustomed to think and to speak of gravita-
tion as a law of matter; while every quality of matter,
24

in and of itself, is inert, inanimate, and non-intelligent.
The assertion that matter is a law, or a lawgiver, is
anomalous. Wherever law is, Mind is; and the notion

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1 that Mind can be in matter is rank infidelity, which either
excludes God from the universe, or includes Him in every
3 mode and form of evil. Pantheism presupposes that
God sleeps in the mineral, dreams in the animal, and
wakes in a wicked man.
6 The distinction between that which is and that which
is not law, must be made by Mind and as Mind. Law is
either a moral or an immoral force. The law of God is
9 the law of Spirit, a moral and spiritual force of immor-
tal and divine Mind. The so-called law of matter is an
immoral force of erring mortal mind, alias the minds of
12 mortals. This so-called force, or law, at work in nature
as a power, prohibition, or license, is cruel and merciless.
It punishes the innocent, and repays our best deeds
15 with sacrifice and suffering. It is a code whose modes
trifle with joy, and lead to immediate or ultimate death.
It fosters suspicion where confidence is due, fear where
18 courage is requisite, reliance where there should be
avoidance, a belief in safety where there is most
danger. Our Master called it "a murderer from the
21

beginning."

Electricity, governed by this so-called law, sparkles
on the cloud, and strikes down the hoary saint. Floods
24 swallow up homes and households; and childhood, age,
and manhood go down in the death-dealing wave. Earth-
quakes engulf cities, churches, schools, and mortals.
27 Cyclones kill and destroy, desolating the green earth.
This pitiless power smites with disease the good Samari-
tan ministering to his neighbor's need. Even the chamber
30

where the good man surrenders to death is not exempt
from this law. Smoothing the pillow of pain may infect
you with smallpox, according to this lawless law which

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1 dooms man to die for loving his neighbor as himself, -
when Christ has said that love is the fulfilling of the
3

law.

Our great Ensample, Jesus of Nazareth, met and abol-
ished this unrelenting false claim of matter with the
6 righteous scorn and power of Spirit. When, through
Mind, he restored sight to the blind, he figuratively and
literally spat upon matter; and, anointing the wounded
9 spirit with the great truth that God is All, he demon-
strated the healing power and supremacy of the law of
Life and Love.
12 In the spiritual Genesis of creation, all law was vested
in the Lawgiver, who was a law to Himself. In divine
Science, God is One and All; and, governing Himself,
15 He governs the universe. This is the law of creation:
"My defense is of God, which saveth the upright in
heart." And that infinite Mind governs all things. On
18 this infinite Principle of freedom, God named Him-
self, I AM. Error, or Adam, might give names to itself,
and call Mind by the name of matter, but error could
21 neither name nor demonstrate Spirit. The name, I
AM, indicated no personality that could be paralleled
with it; but it did declare a mighty individuality,
24 even the everlasting Father, as infinite consciousness,
ever-presence, omnipotence; as all law, Life, Truth, and
Love.
27 God's interpretation of Himself furnishes man with
the only suitable or true idea of Him; and the divine
definition of Deity differs essentially from the human.
30

It interprets the law of Spirit, not of matter. It explains
the eternal dynamics of being, and shows that nature
and man are as harmonious to-day as in the beginning,

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1 when "all things were made by Him; and without Him
was not any thing made."
3 Whatever appears to be law, but partakes not of the
nature of God, is not law, but is what Jesus declared
it, "a liar, and the father of it." God is the law of Life,
6 not of death; of health, not of sickness; of good, not
of evil. It is this infinitude and oneness of good that
silences the supposition that evil is a claimant or a claim.
9 The consciousness of good has no consciousness or knowl-
edge of evil; and evil is not a quality to be known or
eliminated by good: while iniquity, too evil to conceive
12

of good as being unlike itself, declares that God knows
iniquity!

When the Lawgiver was the only law of creation, free-
15 dom reigned, and was the heritage of man; but this
freedom was the moral power of good, not of evil: it
was divine Science, in which God is supreme, and the
18 only law of being. In this eternal harmony of Science,
man is not fallen: he is governed in the same rhythm
that the Scripture describes, when "the morning stars
21

sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy."

TRUTH-HEALING

The spiritual elevator of the human race, physically,
24 morally, and Christianly, is the truism that Truth dem-
onstrates good, and is natural; while error, or evil,
is really non-existent, and must have produced its own
27

illusion, - for it belongs not to nature nor to God. Truth
is the power of God which heals the sick and the sinner,
and is applicable to all the needs of man. It is the uni-

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1 versal, intelligent Christ-idea illustrated by the life of
Jesus, through whose "stripes we are healed." By con-
3 flicts, defeats, and triumphs, Christian Science has been
reduced to the understanding of mortals, and found able
to heal them.
6 Pagan mysticism, Grecian philosophy, or Jewish reli-
gion, never entered into the line of Jesus' thought or
action. His faith partook not of drugs, matter, nor of
9 the travesties of mortal mind. The divine Mind was
his only instrumentality and potency, in religion or medi-
cine. The Principle of his cure was God, in the laws
12

of Spirit, not of matter; and these laws annulled all other
laws.

Jesus knew that erring mortal thought holds only in
15 itself the supposition of evil, and that sin, sickness, and
death are its subjective states; also, that pure Mind is
the truth of being that subjugates and destroys any sup-
18

positional or elementary opposite to Him who is All.

Truth is supreme and omnipotent. Then, whatever
else seemeth to be intelligence or power is false, delud-
21 ing reason and denying revelation, and seeking to dethrone
Deity. The truth of Mind-healing uplifts mankind, by
acknowledging pure Mind as absolute and entire, and
24

that evil is naught, although it seems to be.

Pure Mind gives out an atmosphere that heals and
saves. Words are not always the auxiliaries of Truth.
27 The spirit, and not the letter, performs the vital func-
tions of Truth and Love. Mind, imbued with this Science
of healing, is a law unto itself, needing neither license
30

nor prohibition; but lawless mind, with unseen motives,
and silent mental methods whereby it may injure the
race, is the highest attenuation of evil.

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1 Again: evil, as mind, is doomed, already sentenced,
punished; for suffering is commensurate with evil, and
3 lasts as long as the evil. As mind, evil finds no escape
from itself; and the sin and suffering it occasions can
only be removed by reformation.
6 According to divine law, sin and suffering are not
cancelled by repentance or pardon. Christian Science
not only elucidates but demonstrates this verity of be-
9 ing; namely, that mortals suffer from the wrong they
commit, whether intentionally or ignorantly; that every
effect and amplification of wrong will revert to the wrong-
12 doer, until he pays his full debt to divine law, and the
measure he has meted is measured to him again, full,
pressed down, and running over. Surely "the way of
15

the transgressor is hard."

In this law of justice, the atonement of Christ loses
no efficacy. Justice is the handmaid of mercy, and show-
18 eth mercy by punishing sin. Jesus said, "I came not to
destroy the law," - the divine requirements typified in
the law of Moses, - "but to fulfil it" in righteousness,
21 by Truth's destroying error. No greater type of divine
Love can be presented than effecting so glorious a purpose.
This spirit of sacrifice always has saved, and still saves
24 mankind; but by mankind I mean mortals, or a kind
of men after man's own making. Man as God's idea
is already saved with an everlasting salvation. It is im-
27 possible to be a Christian Scientist without apprehend-
ing the moral law so clearly that, for conscience' sake,
one will either abandon his claim to even a knowledge
30

of this Science, or else make the claim valid. All Science
is divine. Then, to be Science, it must produce physical
and moral harmony.

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1 Dear readers, our Journal is designed to bring health
and happiness to all households wherein it is permitted
3 to enter, and to confer increased power to be good and
to do good. If you wish to brighten so pure a purpose,
you will aid our prospect of fulfilling it by your kind
6

patronage of The Christian Science Journal, now enter-
ing upon its fifth volume, clad in Truth-healing's new
and costly spring dress.

HEART TO HEART

When the heart speaks, however simple the words,
its language is always acceptable to those who have
12

hearts.

I just want to say, I thank you, my dear students, who
are at work conscientiously and assiduously, for the good
15 you are doing. I am grateful to you for giving to the
sick relief from pain; for giving joy to the suffering and
hope to the disconsolate; for lifting the fallen and strength-
18 ening the weak, and encouraging the heart grown faint
with hope deferred. We are made glad by the divine
Love which looseth the chains of sickness and sin, open-
21 ing the prison doors to such as are bound; and we should
be more grateful than words can express, even through
this white-winged messenger, our Journal.
24 With all the homage beneath the skies, yet were our
burdens heavy but for the Christ-love that makes them
light and renders the yoke easy. Having his word, you
27

have little need of words of approval and encouragement
from me. Perhaps it is even selfish in me sometimes to
relieve my heart of its secrets, because I take so much

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1 pleasure in thus doing; but if my motives are sinister,
they will harm myself only, and I shall have the unself-
3

ish joy of knowing that the wrong motives are not yours,
to react on yourselves.

These two words in Scripture suggest the sweetest
6 similes to be found in any language - rock and feathers:
"Upon this rock I will build my church;" "He shall
cover thee with His feathers." How blessed it is to
9 think of you as "beneath the shadow of a great rock in
a weary land," safe in His strength, building on His
foundation, and covered from the devourer by divine
12

protection and affection. Always bear in mind that His
presence, power, and peace meet all human needs and
reflect all bliss.

THINGS TO BE THOUGHT OF

The need of their teacher's counsel, felt by students,
especially by those at a distance, working assiduously for
18

our common Cause, - and their constant petitions for
the same, should be met in the most effectual way.

To be responsible for supplying this want, and poise
21 the wavering balance on the right side, is impracticable
without a full knowledge of the environments. The
educational system of Christian Science lacks the aid
24 and protection of State laws. The Science is hampered
by immature demonstrations, by the infancy of its dis-
covery, by incorrect teaching; and especially by unprin-
27

cipled claimants, whose mad ambition drives them to
appropriate my ideas and discovery, without credit, ap-
preciation, or a single original conception, while they

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1 quote from other authors and give them credit for every
random thought in line with mine.
3 My noble students, who are loyal to Christ, Truth, and
human obligations, will not be disheartened in the midst
of this seething sea of sin. They build for time and eter-
6 nity. The others stumble over misdeeds, and their own
unsubstantiality, without the groundwork of right, till,
like camera shadows thrown upon the mists of time, they
9

melt into darkness.

Unity is the essential nature of Christian Science. Its
Principle is One, and to demonstrate the divine One,
12

demands oneness of thought and action.

Many students enter the Normal class of my College
whom I have not fitted for it by the Primary course.
15 They are taught their first lessons by my students; hence
the aptness to assimilate pure and abstract Science is
somewhat untested.
18 "As the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." As mortal
mind is directed, it acts for a season. Some students
leave my instructions before they are quite free from
21 the bias of their first impressions, whether those be cor-
rect or incorrect. Such students are more or less subject
to the future mental influence of their former teacher.
24 Their knowledge of Mind-healing may be right theo-
retically, but the moral and spiritual status of thought
must be right also. The tone of the teacher's mind must
27 be pure, grand, true, to aid the mental development of
the student; for the tint of the instructor's mind must
take its hue from the divine Mind. A single mistake in
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metaphysics, or in ethics, is more fatal than a mistake in
physics.

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1 tionally offers his own thought, and gives me as authority
for it; if he diverges from Science and knows it not, or,
3 knowing it, makes the venture from vanity, in order to
be thought original, or wiser than somebody else, - this
divergence widens. He grows dark, and cannot regain,
6 at will, an upright understanding. This error in the
teacher also predisposes his students to make mistakes
and lose their way. Diverse opinions in Science are
9 stultifying. All must have one Principle and the same
rule; and all who follow the Principle and rule have but
one opinion of it.
12 Whosoever understands a single rule in Science, and
demonstrates its Principle according to rule, is master
of the situation. Nobody can gainsay this. The ego-
15 tistical theorist or shallow moralist may presume to
make innovations upon simple proof; but his mistake
is visited upon himself and his students, whose minds
18 are, must be, disturbed by this discord, which extends
along the whole line of reciprocal thought. An error
in premise can never bring forth the real fruits of Truth.
21 After thoroughly explaining spiritual Truth and its ethics
to a student, I am not morally responsible for the mis-
statements or misconduct of this student. My teachings
24 are uniform. Those who abide by them do well. If
others, who receive the same instruction, do ill, the fault
is not in the culture but the soil.
27 I am constantly called to settle questions and disaf-
fections toward Christian Science growing out of the
departures from Science of self-satisfied, unprincipled
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students. If impatient of the loving rebuke, the stu-
dent must stop at the foot of the grand ascent, and there
remain until suffering compels the downfall of his self-

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1 conceit. Then that student must struggle up, with bleed-
ing footprints, to the God-crowned summit of unselfish
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and pure aims and affections.

To be two-sided, when these sides are moral oppo-
sites, is neither politic nor scientific; and to abridge a
6 single human right or privilege is an error. Whoever
does this may represent me as doing it; but he mistakes
me, and the subjective state of his own mind for mine.
9 The true leader of a true cause is the unacknowledged
servant of mankind. Stationary in the background, this
individual is doing the work that nobody else can or will
12 do. An erratic career is like the comet's course, dash-
ing through space, headlong and alone. A clear-headed
and honest Christian Scientist will demonstrate the Prin-
15

ciple of Christian Science, and hold justice and mercy as
inseparable from the unity of God.

UNCHRISTIAN RUMOR
18 The assertion that I have said hard things about my
loyal students in Chicago, New York, or any other place,
is utterly false and groundless. I speak of them as I feel,
21 and I cannot find it in my heart not to love them. They
are essentially dear to me, who are toiling and achieving
success in unison with my own endeavors and prayers.
24 If I correct mistakes which may be made in teaching or
lecturing on Christian Science, this is in accordance with
my students' desires, and thus we mutually aid each other,
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and obey the Golden Rule.

The spirit of lies is abroad. Because Truth has spoken
aloud, error, running to and fro in the earth, is scream-

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1 ing, to make itself heard above Truth's voice. The
audible and inaudible wail of evil never harms Scientists,
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steadfast in their consciousness of the nothingness of
wrong and the supremacy of right.

Our worst enemies are the best friends to our growth.
6 Charity students, for whom I have sacrificed the most
time, - those whose chief aim is to injure me, - have
caused me to exercise most patience. When they report
9 me as "hating those whom I do not love," let them re-
member that there never was a time when I saw an op-
portunity really to help them and failed to improve it;
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and this, too, when I knew they were secretly striving
to injure me.

VAIN GLORY
15

Comparisons are odorous. - SHAKESPEARE

Through all human history, the vital outcomes of
Truth have suffered temporary shame and loss from
18 individual conceit, cowardice, or dishonesty. The bird
whose right wing flutters to soar, while the left beats its
way downward, falls to the earth. Both wings must be
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plumed for rarefied atmospheres and upward flight.

Mankind must gravitate from sense to Soul, and human
affairs should be governed by Spirit, intelligent good.
24 The antipode of Spirit, which we name matter, or non-
intelligent evil, is no real aid to being. The predisposing
and exciting cause of all defeat and victory under the
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sun, rests on this scientific basis: that action, in obedi-
ence to God, spiritualizes man's motives and methods,
and crowns them with success; while disobedience to

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1 this divine Principle materializes human modes and con-
sciousness, and defeats them.
3 Two personal queries give point to human action: Who
shall be greatest? and, Who shall be best? Earthly
glory is vain; but not vain enough to attempt pointing
6 the way to heaven, the harmony of being. The imaginary
victories of rivalry and hypocrisy are defeats. The Holy
One saith, "O that thou hadst hearkened to My com-
9 mandments! then had thy peace been as a river." He
is unfit for Truth, and the demonstration of divine power,
who departs from Mind to matter, and from Truth to
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error, in pursuit of better means for healing the sick and
casting out error.

The Christian Scientist keeps straight to the course.
15 His whole inquiry and demonstra