Page:Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1898).djvu/58

38 of the corporeal senses, the weaker the indications of Soul.

Will-power is not Science. It belongs to the senses, and its use is to be condemned. Willing the sick to recover is not the metaphysical practice of Christian Science, but sheer animal magnetism. Will-power may infringe the rights of man. It produces evil continually, and is not a factor in the Science of Being. Truth, and not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to disease, “Peace, be still.” Because Science wars with so-called physical science, even as Truth wars with error, the old schools of

medicine will oppose it. Ignorance, pride, and prejudice close the door to whatever is not stereotyped. When the Science of Being is understood, every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be the universal panacea.

It is a question to-day, whether the ancient inspired healers understood the Science of Christian healing, or

whether they caught its sweet tones, like the natural musician, without being able to explain them. So divinely imbued were they with its Spirit, that the lack of the letter could not hinder their work; and that letter, without the Spirit, would have made void their example.

The struggle for the recovery of invalids goes on, not between material methods, but between mortal

minds and immortal Mind. The victory will be on the patient's side, only as immortal Mind, through Christian Science, subdues the human belief in disease. Otherwise, it matters not what