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  	    The Rev.  ——  said in a sermon:  A true Christian
  	would protest against metaphysical healing being called
 9	Christian Science. He also maintained that pain and
  	disease are not illusions but realities; and that it is not
  	Christian to believe they are illusions. Is this so? 

12	    It is unchristian to believe that pain and sickness are
  	anything but illusions. My proof of this is, that the
  	penalty for believing in their reality is the very pain and
15	disease. Jesus cast out a devil, and the dumb spake;
  	hence it is right to know that the works of Satan are the
  	illusion and error which Truth casts out. 
18	    Does the gentleman above mentioned know the
  	meaning of divine metaphysics, or of metaphysical
  	theology? 
21	    According to Webster, metaphysics is defined thus:
  	"The science of the conceptions and relations which are
  	necessary to thought and knowledge; science of the
24	mind." Worcester defines it as "the philosophy of mind,
  	as distinguished from that of matter; a science of which
  	the object is to explain the principles and causes of
27	all things existing." Brande calls metaphysics "the
  	science which regards the ultimate grounds of being, as
  	distinguished from its phenomenal modifications." "A
30	speculative science, which soars beyond the bounds of
  	experience," is a further definition. 
 
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 1	    Divine metaphysics is th...at which treats of the exist-
  	ence of God, His essence, relations, and attributes. A
 3	sneer at metaphysics is a scoff at Deity; at His goodness,
  	mercy, and might. 
  	    Christian Science is the unfolding of true metaphysics;
 6	that is, of Mind, or God, and His attributes. Science rests
  	on Principle and demonstration. The Principle of Chris-
  	tian Science is divine. Its rule is, that man shall utilize
 9	the divine power. 
  	    In Genesis i. 26, we read: "Let us make man in
  	our image, after our likeness:  and let them have
12	dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
  	the air." 
  	    I was once called to visit a sick man to whom the
15	regular physicians had given three doses of Croton
  	oil, and then had left him to die. Upon my arrival I
  	found him barely alive, and in terrible agony. In one
18	hour he was well, and the next day he attended to his
  	business. I removed the stoppage, healed him of en-
  	teritis, and neutralized the bad effects of the poison-
21	ous oil. His physicians had failed even to move his
  	bowels, — though the wonder was, with the means
  	used in their effort to accomplish this result, that
24	they had not quite killed him. According to their
  	diagnosis, the exciting cause of the inflammation and
  	stoppage was — eating smoked herring. The man is
27	living yet; and I will send his address to any one
  	who may wish to apply to him for information about
  	his case. 
30	    Now comes the question:  Had that sick man dominion
  	over the fish in his stomach? 
  	    His want of control over "the fish of the sea" must
 
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 1	have been an illusion, or else the Scriptures misstate
  	man's power. That the Bible is true I believe, not
 3	only, but I demonstrated its truth when I exercised
  	my power over the fish, cast out the sick man's illu-
  	sion, and healed him. Thus it was shown that the
 6	healing action of Mind upon the body has its only ex-
  	planation in divine metaphysics. As a man "thinketh
  	in his heart, so is he." When the mortal thought, or be-
 9	lief, was removed, the man was well. 
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