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12	    At this date, 1883, a newspaper edited and published
  	by the Christian Scientists has become a necessity. Many
  	questions important to be disposed of come to the Col-
15	lege and to the practising students, yet but little time
  	has been devoted to their answer. Further enlight-
  	enment is necessary for the age, and a periodical de-
18	voted to this work seems alone adequate to meet the
  	requirement. Much interest is awakened and expressed
  	on the subject of metaphysical healing, but in many
21	minds it is confounded with isms, and even infidelity, so
  	that its religious specialty and the vastness of its worth
  	are not understood. 
24	    It is often said, "You must have a very strong will-
  	power to heal," or, "It must require a great deal of faith
  	to make your demonstrations." When it is answered
27	that there is no will-power required, and that something
  	more than faith is necessary, we meet with an expression
  	of incredulity. It is not alone the mission of Christian
30	Science to heal the sick, but to destroy sin in mortal
 
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 1	thought. This work well done will elevate and purify
  	the race. It cannot fail to do this if we devote our best
 3	energies to the work. 
  	    Science reveals man as spiritual, harmonious, and eter-
  	nal. This should be understood. Our College should
 6	be crowded with students who are willing to consecrate
  	themselves to this Chr...istian work. Mothers should be
  	able to produce perfect health and perfect morals in their
 9	children — and ministers, to heal the sick — by study-
  	ing this scientific method of practising Christianity. 
  	Many say, "I should like to study, but have not suffi-
12	cient faith that I have the power to heal." The healing
  	power is Truth and Love, and these do not fail in the
  	greatest emergencies. 
15	    Materia medica says, "I can do no more. I have
  	done all that can be done. There is nothing to build
  	upon.  There is no longer any reason for hope." Then
18	metaphysics comes in, armed with the power of Spirit,
  	not matter, takes up the case hopefully and builds on
  	the stone that the builders have rejected, and is suc-
21	cessful. 
  	    Metaphysical therapeutics can seem a miracle and a
  	mystery to those only who do not understand the grand
24	reality that Mind controls the body. They acknowledge
  	an erring or mortal mind, but believe it to be brain mat-
  	ter. That man is the idea of infinite Mind, always perfect
27	in God, in Truth, Life, and Love, is something not easily
  	accepted, weighed down as is mortal thought with mate-
  	rial beliefs. That which never existed, can seem solid
30	substance to this thought. It is much easier for people
  	to believe that the body affects the mind, than that the
  	mind affects the body. 
 
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 1	    We hear from the pulpits that sickness is sent as a
  	discipline to bring man nearer to God, — even though
 3	sickness often leaves mortals but little time free from
  	complaints and fretfulness, and Jesus cast out disease as
  	evil. 
 6	    The most of our Christian Science practitioners have
  	plenty to do, and many more are needed for the ad-
  	vancement of the age. At present the majority of the
 9	acute cases are given to the M. D.'s, and only those
  	cases that are pronounced incurable are passed over to
  	the Scientist. The healing of such cases should cer-
12	tainly prove to all minds the power of metaphysics over
  	physics; and it surely does, to many thinkers, as the
  	rapid growth of the work shows. At no distant day,
15	Christian healing will rank far in advance of allopathy
  	and homoeopathy; for Truth must ultimately succeed
  	where error fails. 
18	    Mind governs all. That we exist in God, perfect,
  	there is no doubt, for the conceptions of Life, Truth, and
  	Love must be perfect; and with that basic truth we con-
21	quer sickness, sin, and death. Frequently it requires
  	time to overcome the patient's faith in drugs and mate-
  	rial hygiene; but when once convinced of the uselessness
24	of such material methods, the gain is rapid. 
  	    It is a noticeable fact, that in families where laws
  	of health are strictly enforced, great caution is observed
27	in regard to diet, and the conversation chiefly confined
  	to the ailments of the body, there is the most sickness. 
  	Take a large family of children where the mother has
30	all that she can attend to in keeping them clothed and
  	fed, and health is generally the rule; whereas, in small
  	families of one or two children, sickness is by no means
 
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 1	the exception. These children must not be allowed to
  	eat certain food, nor to breathe the cold air, because
 3	there is danger in it; when they perspire, they must be
  	loaded down with coverings until their bodies become
  	dry, — and the mother of one child is often busier than
 6	the mother of eight. 
  	    Great charity and humility is necessary in this work
  	of healing. The loving patience of Jesus, we must
 9	strive to emulate. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
  	thyself" has daily to be exemplified; and, although
  	skepticism and incredulity prevail in places where
12	one would least expect it, it harms not; for if serving
  	Christ, Truth, of what can mortal opinion avail? Cast
  	not your pearls before swine; but if you cannot bring
15	peace to all, you can to many, if faithful laborers in His
  	vineyard. 
  	    Looking over the newspapers of the day, one naturally
18	reflects that it is dangerous to live, so loaded with disease
  	seems the very air. These descriptions carry fears to
  	many minds, to be depicted in some future time upon
21	the body. A periodical of our own will counteract to
  	some extent this public nuisance; for through our paper,
  	at the price at which we shall issue it, we shall be able
24	to reach many homes with healing, purifying thought. 
  	A great work already has been done, and a greater work
  	yet remains to be done. Oftentimes we are denied the
27	results of our labors because people do not understand
  	the nature and power of metaphysics, and they think
  	that health and strength would have returned natu-
30	rally without any assistance. This is not so much from
  	a lack of justice, as it is that the mens populi is not suffi-
  	ciently enlightened on this great subject. More thought
 
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 1	is given to material illusions than to spiritual facts. If
  	we can aid in abating suffering and diminishing sin,
 3	we shall have accomplished much; but if we can bring
  	to the general thought this great fact that drugs do not,
  	cannot, produce health and harmony, since "in Him
 6	[Mind] we live, and move, and have our being," we shall
  	have done more. 
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