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Rh you have not yet divorced it from the general faith. The chemist, the botanist, the druggist, the doctor, the nurse, equip the medicine with their faith, and the majority of beliefs do rule. When the general belief endorses the inanimate drug as doing this or that, individual dissent or faith is but a minority belief, governed by the majority.

The quotient, proving that numbers have been divided by a fixed rule, is not more unquestionable than the scientific tests I have made of the effects of Truth upon the sick. The counter-fact, relative to any disease, is required to cure it. The counteracting argument of Truth is designed to rebuke and destroy sin. Why should Truth not be equally efficient in sickness, which is a result of sin?

Perfection in the midst of imperfection is seen and acknowledged only by degrees; the ages must slowly work up to it. The universal belief in physics weighs against the mighty truths of metaphysics. The general belief, that sustains medicine, and produces all its results, works against Christian Science; and the percentage of power on the side of this Science must mightily outweigh that of physic, in order to heal a single case of disease.

The Divine Principle that made harmless the poisonous viper — delivered from the boiling oil, the fiery furnace, the jaws of the lion — can heal the sick, and triumph over sin and death. It crowned the demonstrations of Jesus with unsurpassed power and Truth. But “the same Spirit which was in Christ Jesus” must always accompany the letter of Science, in order to confirm and repeat the ancient demonstrations of prophet