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Rh This change of heart is essential to Christianity, and will have its effect physically as well as spiritually, healing disease. Burnt offerings and drugs, God does not require.

Is a belief of nervousness, accompanied by great mental depression, mesmerism?

All mesmerism is of one of three kinds; namely, the ignorant, the fraudulent, or the malicious workings of error or mortal mind. We have not the particulars of the case to which you may refer, and for this reason cannot answer your question professionally.

''How can I govern a child metaphysically? Doesn't the'' use of the rod teach him life in matter?

The use of the rod is virtually a declaration to the child's mind that sensation belongs to matter. Motives govern acts, and Mind governs man. If you make clear to the child's thought the right motives for action, and cause him to love them, they will lead him aright: if you educate him to love God, good, and obey the Golden Rule, he will love and obey you without your having to resort to corporeal punishment.

Are both prayer and drugs necessary to heal?

The apostle James said, “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your