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_Second_: It is more effectual than drugs; curing where [30]

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these fail, and leaving none of the harmful ”after effects” [1]

of these in the system; thus proving that metaphysics is above physics.

_Third:_ One who has been healed by Christian Sci- ence is not only healed of the disease, but is improved [5]

morally. The body is governed by mind; and mortal mind must be improved, before the body is renewed and harmonious,-since the physique is simply thought made manifest.

_Is spiritualism or mesmerism included in Christian_ [10]

_Science?_

They are wholly apart from it. Christian Science is based on divine Principle; whereas spiritualism, so far as I understand it, is a mere speculative opinion and human belief. If the departed were to communicate [15]

with us, we should see them as they were before death, and have them with us; after death, they can no more come to those they have left, than we, in our present state of existence, can go to the departed or the adult can re- turn to his boyhood. We may pa.s.s on to their state [20]

of existence, but they cannot return to ours. Man is _im_-mortal, and there is not a moment when he ceases to exist. All that are called ”communications from spirits,”

lie within the realm of mortal thought on this present plane of existence, and are the antipodes of Christian Science; [25]

the immortal and mortal are as direct opposites as light and darkness.

_Who is the Founder of mental healing?_

The author of ”Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” who discovered the Science of healing em- [30]

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bodied in her works. Years of practical proof, through [1]

h.o.m.opathy, revealed to her the fact that Mind, in- stead of matter, is the Principle of pathology; and subsequently her recovery, through the supremacy of Mind over matter, from a severe casualty p.r.o.nounced [5]

by the physicians incurable, sealed that proof with the signet of Christian Science. In 1883, a million of peo- ple acknowledge and attest the blessings of this mental system of treating disease. Perhaps the following words of her husband, the late Dr. Asa G. Eddy, [10]

afford the most concise, yet complete, summary of the matter:-

”Mrs, Eddy's works are the outgrowths of her life.

I never knew so unselfish an individual.”

_Will the book Science and Health, that you offer for sale_ [15]

_at three dollars, teach its readers to heal the sick,-or is_ _one obliged to become a student under your personal in-_ _struction? And if one is obliged to study under you, of_ _what benefit is your book?_

Why do we read the Bible, and then go to church to [20]

hear it expounded? Only because both are important.

Why do we read moral science, and then study it at college?

You are benefited by reading Science and Health, but it is greatly to your advantage to be taught its Science [25]

by the author of that work, who explains it in detail.

_What is immortal Mind?_

In reply, we refer you to ”Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”(2) Vol. I. page 14: ”That which

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is erring, sinful, sick, and dying, termed material or [1]