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Rh If a crisis occurs in your treatment, you must treat the patient less for the disease, and more for the mental

fermentation, and subdue the symptoms, by removing the belief that this chemicalization produces pain. Insist vehemently on the great fact which covers the whole ground, — namely, God is all, that there is none beside Him. When the supposed suffering is gone from mortal mind, there can be no pain; and when the fear is destroyed, the inflammation will subside. Calm the fear and confusion induced by chemicalization, which is the alterative effect produced by Truth on error; and sometimes explain the symptoms and their cause to the patient.

It is no more Christianly Scientific to see disease than it is to experience it. If you would destroy the sense of

disease, you should not build it up by wishing to see the forms it assumes, or by applying a single material application for its relief. The perversion of Mind-Science is like asserting that the products of eight multiplied by five, and of seven by ten, are both forty, and that their combined sum is fifty, and then calling the process mathematical. Wiser than his persecutors, Jesus said: “If I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?”

If the reader of this book observes a great stir throughout the whole system, and certain moral and physical

symptoms seem aggravated, these indications are favorable. Continue to read, and the book will become the physician, allaying the tremor which Truth often brings to error when destroying it.

Patients unfamiliar with the cause of this commotion, and ignorant that it is a favorable omen, may be alarmed