Page:Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.djvu/371

Rh that matter forms its own conditions, and renders them fatal at certain points — entertains fears and doubts as to the termination of the injury. Not holding the reins of government in his own hands, he believes that something stronger than Mind — namely, matter — governs the case. His treatment is therefore tentative. This mental state invites defeat. The belief that he has a master in matter — and may not be able to mend the bone — combines with his fear, and both are communicated to the patient, either verbally or otherwise. Thus his resistance to an unfavorable result is two-thirds disarmed. Remember that the unexpressed fear oftentimes affects the sensitive patient more strongly than the expressed fear.

The Christian Scientist, understanding that all is Mind, commences with mental causation, the Truth of Being, to destroy the error. This corrective is an alterative, reaching to every part of the human system. According to Scripture, it searcheth “the bones and marrow;” and it restores the harmony of man.

The matter-physician contends with matter, as both his foe and his remedy. He regards the ailment as weakened or strengthened, according to the evidence this foe presents.

The Scientist — making Mind his basis of operation, irrespective of matter, and regarding the Truth and harmony of being as superior to its error and discord — has rendered himself strong, instead of weak, to cope with the case; and he proportionately strengthens his patient with the stimulus of courage and conscious power. Both courage and consciousness are now at work in the economy of being, — according to