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Rh and animal magnetism heal? It may be affirmed that they do not heal, but only relieve suffering temporarily,

exchanging one disease for another. We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth, or Mind, can heal; and this Mind must be divine, not human. Mind transcends all other power, and will ultimately supersede all other means in healing. In order to heal by Science, you must not be ignorant of its moral and spiritual demands, nor disobey them. Moral ignorance, or sin, affects your demonstration, and hinders its approach to the standard in Christian Science.

After the author's sacred discovery, she affixed the name Science to Christianity, the name error to

corporeal sense, and the name Substance to Mind. Science has called the world to battle over this issue and its demonstration, healing the sick, destroying error, and revealing the universal harmony. To those natural Christian Scientists, the ancient worthies, and to Jesus the Christ, God certainly revealed its spirit, if not the absolute letter.

Because the Science of Mind seems to bring into dishonor the ordinary scientific schools, wrestling with

material observations alone, this Science has met with opposition; but if any system honors God, it ought to receive aid, not opposition, from all thinking people. And Christian Science does honor God, as no other theory honors Him; and it does this in the way of His appointing, by doing many wonderful works through the divine name and nature. One must fulfil one's mission without timidity or dissimulation, for, to be well done, the work must be done unselfishly. Christianity will never be based on a divine Principle