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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 c...overs 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." 
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