Page:Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1898).djvu/63

Rh and advise our patients to be hopeful and cheerful, and to take as little medicine as possible; but

mind can never cure organic difficulties.” The logic is lame, and facts contradict it. The author has cured what is termed organic disease, as readily as she has cured purely functional disease, and with no means but Mind.

Since her discovery that Mind governs all, not partially but supremely, she has submitted her metaphysical

system of treating disease to the strongest tests. It has gradually gained ground, and has proved itself, whenever Scientifically employed, to be the most effective curative agent in medical practice. To-day there is hardly a city, village, or hamlet, in which are not to be found living witnesses and monuments to the virtue and power of Truth, as applied through this metaphysical system for healing disease.

To-day the healing power of Truth is demonstrated to be an immanent, eternal quality, or Principle,

instead of a phenomenal exhibition. Its discovery is the second coming of the Gospel of “peace on earth and good-will to men.” This coming is, as was promised by the Master, for its establishment as a permanent dispensation, to remain forever among men; but the mission of Christian Science now, as in the time of its first demonstrator, is not primarily one of physical healing. Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the healing of physical disease; but these are only to demonstrate its divine origin, to attest the reality of its higher mission of healing the errors of mortals.