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Rh erected near the guillotine: “Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!”

The ordinary practitioner, examining bodily symptoms, telling the patient he is sick, and treating the case

according to his diagnosis, would, by this course, induce that very disease, even if it were not already determined by mortal mind. He thus commits an unconscious offence against happiness and health, and ensures a good job for himself, if not a fatal one for his patient. The physician “agrees with his adversary quickly,” but upon different terms from the metaphysician; for the matter-physician agrees with the disease, while the metaphysician agrees only with health, and challenges disease.

Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates and purifies. It acts as an

alterative, neutralizing error with Truth. It changes the secretions, expels humors, dissolves tumors, relaxes rigid muscles, restores carious bones to soundness. The effects of this Science are to stir the human mind to a change of base, whereon it may yield to the divine Mind.

Experiments have favored the fact that Mind governs the body, not in one instance, but in every instance.

The indestructible faculties of Spirit exist without the conditions of matter, and also without the false beliefs of a so-called material existence. Working out the rules of Science in practice, the author has restored health in cases of both acute and chronic disease, and in their severest forms. Secretions have been changed, the structure has been renewed, shortened limbs have been elongated, cicatrized joints have been