0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – Bk 6 – Retrospection and Introspection – Chpt 21 – Faith-Cure

                                          FAITH-CURE 

 1	    It is often asked, Why are faith-cures sometimes more
  	speedy than some of the cures wrought through Chris-
 3	tian Scientists? Because faith is belief, and not under-
  	standing; and it is easier to believe, than to understand
  	spiritual Truth. It demands less cross-bearing, self
 6	renunciation, and divine Science to admit the claims of
  	the corporeal senses and appeal to God for relief through
  	a humanized conception of His power, than to deny these
 9	claims and learn the divine way, — drinking Jesus' cup,
  	being baptized with his baptism, gaining the end through
  	persecution and purity. 
12	    Millions are believing in God, or good, without bearing
  	the fruits of goodness, not having reached its Science. 
  	Belief is virtually blindness, when it admits Truth with-
15	out understanding it. Blind belief cannot say with the
  	apostle, "I know whom I have believed."  There is danger
  	in this mental state called belief; for if Truth is admitted,
18	but not understood, it may be lost, and error may enter
  	through this same channel of ignorant belief. The faith-
  	cure has devout followers, whose Christian practice is far
21	in advance of their theory. 
  	    The work of healing, in the Science of Mind, is the most
  	sacred and salutary power which can be wielded. My
24	Christian students, impressed with the true sense of the
 
  
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 1	great work before them, enter this strait and narrow path,
  	and work conscientiously. 
 3	    Let us follow the example of Jesus, the master Meta-
  	physician, and gain sufficient knowledge of error to destroy
  	it with Truth. Evil is not mastered by evil; it can only
 6	be overcome with good. This brings out the nothingness
  	of evil and the eternal somethingness, vindicates the divine
  	Principle, and improves the race of Adam.SHOW ALL