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86 breath. It is lightning and storm, together with all that is selfish, dishonest, and impure.

Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds the “wind in His fist;” and this teaching accords

with Science and harmony. You can have no power opposed to God in Science, and the physical senses must give up their false testimony. Your influence for good depends upon the weight you throw into the right scale. The good you do and embody gives you the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a mockery of strength, which ere long betrays its weakness, and falls, never to rise again.

We walk in the footsteps of Truth and Love, by following the example of our Master in the understanding of metaphysics. Christianity is the basis of true healing. Whatever pins our trust to matter, instead of God, is directly opposed to divine power.

I never believed in receiving certificates or presenting testimonials of cures; and usually, when healing, have said to the individual, “Go, and tell no man.” I have never made a specialty of treating disease; but healing has accompanied all my efforts to introduce Christian Science.

The following testimonials are appended, to elucidate my topic:

I was suffering from pulmonary difficulties, pains in the chest, a hard and unremitting cough, hectic fever; and all

those fearful symptoms made my case alarming. When I first saw Mrs. Glover (afterwards Mrs. Eddy) I was so reduced as to be unable to walk any distance, and could sit up only a portion of the day. Walking up stairs gave me great suffering in breathing. I had no appetite, and