0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents

This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.

  	    If I have the toothache, and nothing stops it until I
  	have the tooth extracted, and then the pain ceases, has
15	the mind, or extracting, or both, caused the pain to
  	cease? 

  	    What you thought was pain in the bone or nerve, could
18	only have been a belief of pain in matter; for matter
  	has no sensation. It was a state of mortal thought made
  	manifest in the flesh. You call this body matter, when
21	awake, or when asleep in a dream. That matter can re-
  	port pain, or that mind is in matter, reporting sensa-
  	tions, is but a dream at all times. You believed that if
24	the tooth were extracted, the pain would cease:  this de-
  	mand of mortal thought once met, your belief assumed
  	a new form, and said, There is no more pain. When
27	your belief in pain ceases, the pain stops; for matter
  	has no intelligence of its own. By applying this men-
  	tal remedy or antidote directly to your belief, you scien-
 
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 1	tifically prove the fact that Mind is supreme. This is not
  	done by will-power, for that is not Science but mesmerism. 
 3	The full understanding that God is Mind, and that mat-
  	ter is but a belief, enables you to control pain. Chris-
  	tian Science, by means of its Principle of metaphysical
 6	healing, is able to do more than to heal a toothache;
  	although its power to allay fear, prevent inflammation,
  	and destroy the necessity for ether — t...hereby avoiding
 9	the fatal results that frequently follow the use of that
  	drug — render this Science invaluable in the practice
  	of dentistry. 
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