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Rh metaphysics is the one most difficult to understand and demonstrate, for to the material thought all things are sure to be material, till rectified by Spirit.

Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal, — that is, to the false sense of the patient. It is more than

fancy, for it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the Truth of Being. If Christian Healing is abused by mere smatterers in Science, it becomes a tedious mischief-maker. Instead of Scientifically effecting a cure, it starts a petty crossfire over every cripple and invalid, buffeting him with the superficial and cold assertion, “Nothing ails you.”

When the Science of Mind was a new revelation to the author, she had to impart, while teaching its grand

facts, the hue of spiritual ideas from her own spiritual condition, and to do this through the meagre channel afforded by language. As former beliefs were gradually expelled from her mind, the teaching became clearer, until finally the shadow of old errors was no longer cast upon Divine Science.

Christian Science must be accepted, at this period, by induction. We admit the whole, because a part is proven,

and that part illustrates and proves the entire Principle. Christian Science should be taught only by those who are morally advanced and spiritually endowed; for it is not superficial, nor is it discerned from the standpoint of the human senses. Only by the illumination of the spiritual sense, can the light of understanding be thrown upon this Science, because it reverses the evidence before the material senses, and furnishes the eternal interpretation of God and man.