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 1	    ADDRESS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY AT PLEASANT VIEW,
  	           CONCORD, N. H., BEFORE 2,500 MEMBERS
 3	           OF THE MOTHER CHURCH, 1897 

  	    My beloved brethren, who have come all the way from
  	the Pacific to the Atlantic shore, from the Palmetto to the
 6	Pine Tree State, I greet you; my hand may not touch
  	yours to-day, but my heart will with tenderness untalkable. 
  	    His Honor, Mayor Woodworth, has welcomed you to
 9	Concord most graciously, voicing the friendship of this
  	city and of my native State — loyal to the heart's core to
  	religion, home, friends, and country. 
12	    To-day we commemorate not only our nation's civil
  	and religious freedom, but a greater even, the liberty of
  	the sons of God, the inalienable rights and radiant reality
15	of Christianity, whereof our Master said: "The works
  	that I do shall he do;" and, "The kingdom of God cometh
  	not with observation" (with knowledge obtained from
18	the senses), but "the kingdom of God is within you," — 
  	within the present possibilities of mankind. 
  	    Think of this inheritance! Heaven right here, where
21	angels are as men, clothed more lightly, and men as angels
  	who, burdened for an hour, spring into liberty, and the
  	good they would do, that they do, and the evil they would
24	not do, that they do not. 
  	    From the falling leaves of old-time faiths men learn a
  	parable of the period, that all error, physical, moral, or
27	reli...gious, will fall before Truth demonstrated, even as
  	dry leaves fall to enrich the soil for fruitage. 
  	    Sin, sickness, and disease flee before the evangel of
30	Truth as the mountain mists before the sun. Truth is
 
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1	the tonic for the sick, and this medicine of Mind is not
  	necessarily infinitesimal but infinite. Herein the mental
 3	medicine of divine metaphysics and the medical systems
  	of allopathy and homoeopathy differ. Mental medi-
  	cine gains no potency by attenuation, and its largest
 6	dose is never dangerous, but the more the better in every
  	case. 
  	    Christian Science classifies thought thus: Right thoughts
 9	are reality and power; wrong thoughts are unreality and
  	powerless, possessing the nature of dreams. Good thoughts
  	are potent; evil thoughts are impotent, and they should
12	appear thus. Continuing this category, we learn that
  	sick thoughts are unreality and weakness; while healthy
  	thoughts are reality and strength. My proof of these
15	novel propositions is demonstration, whereby any man
  	can satisfy himself of their verity. 
  	    Christian Science is not only the acme of Science
18	but the crown of Christianity. It is universal. It ap-
  	peals to man as man; to the whole and not to a por-
  	tion; to man physically, as well as spiritually, and to all
21	mankind. 
  	    It has one God. It demonstrates the divine Principle,
  	rules and practice of the great healer and master of meta-
24	physics, Jesus of Nazareth. It spiritualizes religion and
  	restores its lost element, namely, healing the sick. It
  	consecrates and inspires the teacher and preacher; it
27	equips the doctor with safe and sure medicine; it en-
  	courages and empowers the business man and secures
  	the success of honesty. It is the dear children's toy and
30	strong tower; the wise man's spiritual dictionary; the
  	poor man's money; yea, it is the pearl priceless whereof
  	our Master said, if a man findeth, he goeth and selleth
 
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 1	all that he hath and buyeth it. Buyeth it! Note the
  	scope of that saying, even that Christianity is not merely
 3	a gift, as St. Paul avers, but is bought with a price, a great
  	price; and what man knoweth as did our Master its
  	value, and the price that he paid for it? 
 6	    Friends, I am not enough the new woman of the period
  	for outdoor speaking, and the incidental platform is not
  	broad enough for me, but the speakers that will now ad-
 9	dress you — one a congressman — may improve our
  	platforms; and make amends for the nothingness of
  	matter with the allness of Mind.
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