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Rh no sensation, and mortal mind only feels and sees mentally.

What I term chemicalization is the upheaval produced when immortal Truth is destroying erroneous mortal belief. Mental chemicalization brings sin and sickness to the surface, as in a fermenting fluid, allowing impurities to pass away.

The only effect produced by medicine is dependent upon mental action. If the mind were parted from the

body, could you produce any effect upon the brain by applying the drug thereto? Would the drug restore will and intelligence to cerebrum and cerebellum?

Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better to leave the adjustment of

broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while you confine yourself chiefly to mental reconstruction, and the prevention of inflammation or protracted confinement. Christian Science is always the most skilful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing which will be last demonstrated. However, it is but just to say that the author has already in her possession well-authenticated records of the cure, by herself and her students, through mental surgery alone, of dislocated joints and spinal vertebrae.

The time approaches when mortal mind will forsake its corporeal, structural, and material basis, when immortal

Mind, and its formations, will be apprehended in Science, and material beliefs will not interfere with spiritual facts. Man is indestructible and eternal. Some time it will be learned that mind constructs the body, and with its own materials. Hence