Page:Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1898).djvu/385

Rh Such mistaken metaphysicians are not giving to mind or body the joy and strength of Truth. The poor suffering heart needs its rightful nutriment such as peace, patience in tribulation, and a priceless sense of the dear Father's loving-kindness.

In order to cure his patient, the metaphysician should first cast moral evils out of himself, that he may thus

attain the spiritual freedom which will enable him to cast physical evils out of his patient; but heal, he cannot, while his own spiritual barrenness debars him from giving drink to the thirsty, and hinders him from reaching his patient's thought, — yea, while mental penury chills the faith and hope.

The physician who lacks sympathy for his fellow-being is deficient in human affection; and we have

the apostolic warrant for asking: “If any man love not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?” Not having this divine affection, he lacks faith in the divine Mind, and has not that recognition of infinite Love which alone confers the healing power. Such Scientists will strain out gnats of human misfortune, while they swallow the camels of bigoted pedantry.

The physician must also watch, lest he be overwhelmed by a growing sense of the odiousness of sin, and by the

unveiling of sin in his own thoughts. The sick are terrified by their sick beliefs, and sinners should be affrighted by their sinful beliefs; but the Christian Scientist will be calm in the presence of both sin and disease, knowing, as he does, that God is Love and God is All.

If we would open their prison doors for the sick, we