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Rh It is related that a father, anxious to try such an experiment, plunged his infant babe, only a few hours

old, into water for several minutes, and repeated this operation daily, until the child could remain under water twenty minutes, moving and playing without harm, like a fish. Parents should remember this, and so learn how to develop their children properly on dry land.

Mind controls the birth-throes in the lower realms of nature, wherein parturition is without suffering.

Vegetables, minerals, and many animals suffer no pain in multiplying; but human propagation has its woe, because of its belief. Christian Science reveals harmony as proportionately increasing, as the line of creation rises towards spiritual man — towards enlarged understanding and intelligence; but in the line of the corporeal senses, the less a mortal knows of sin, disease, and mortality, the better for him, — the less pain and sorrow are his. When the mist of mortal mind evaporates, the curse will be removed which says to woman, “In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.” Divine Science rolls back the clouds of error with the light of Truth, and lifts the curtain on man as never born or dying, but coexistent with his Creator.

Popular theology takes up the history of man as if he began materially right, but immediately fell into spiritual

sin; whereas revealed religion proclaims the Science of Mind, and its formations, as being in accordance with the first chapter of the Old Testament, when Mind spake and it was done.