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Rh A little girl, who had occasionally listened to my explanations, wounded her finger badly. She seemed not to notice it. On being questioned about it she answered ingenuously, “There is no sensation in matter.” Bounding off, with laughing eyes, she presently added, “Mamma, my finger is not a bit sore.”

It might have been months or years before her parents would have laid aside their drugs, or reached the mental height their little daughter so naturally attained. The more stubborn beliefs and theories of parents often choke the good seed in the minds of themselves and their offspring. Superstition, like “the fowls of the air,” snatches away the good seed before it has sprouted.

Children should be taught the Truth-cure among their first lessons, and kept from discussing or entertaining

theories or thoughts of sickness. To prevent the experience of error and its sufferings, take care to keep out of the minds of your children sinful and diseased thoughts. The latter should be excluded on the same principle as the former. This is Christian Science.

Some invalids are unwilling to know the facts, or hear about the fallacy of matter and its supposed laws.

They devote themselves a little longer to their material gods, cling to a belief in the life and intelligence of matter, and expect this error to do for them more than they are willing to admit the only living and true God can do. Impatient with your explanation, unwilling to investigate the Science of Mind, which would rid them of their complaints, they hug false beliefs and Suffer the delusive consequences.