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284 When Christian Science and animal magnetism are both comprehended, as they will be, it will be seen why the pioneer of this Science has been so unjustly persecuted, and belied by wolves in sheep's clothing calling themselves Christian Scientists.

Agassiz has wisely said:

Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy which indicates the rightness of all divine action (as the emanation of divine Mind), and the consequent wrongness of its opposite.

Remember that the medicine of Science is divine Mind; and dishonesty, sensuality, falsehood, revenge, malice, are not the mental qualities which heal the sick. The hypnotizer employs one belief to destroy another. If he heals sickness through a belief, and a belief originally caused the sickness, it is a case of the greater error overcoming the lesser. This greater error thereafter occupies the ground, leaving the case worse than before it was grasped by the stronger error.

Our courts recognize evidence to prove the motive as well as the commission of a crime. Is it not clear that the human mind must move the body to

a wicked act? Is not mortal mind the murderer? The hands, without mortal mind to direct them, could not murder.