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Rh hurt, so don't think you are.” Presently the child forgets all about the accident, and is at play.

When the sick recover by the use of drugs, it is the law of a general belief, culminating in individual faith, which

heals; and according to this faith will the effect be. Even when you take away the individual confidence in the drug, you have not yet divorced the drug from the general faith. The chemist, the botanist, the druggist, the doctor, and the nurse equip the medicine with their faith, and the beliefs which are in the majority rule. When the general belief endorses the inanimate drug as doing this or that, individual dissent or faith, unless it rests on Science, is but a belief held by a minority, and such a belief is governed by the majority.

The universal belief in physics weighs against the high 15 and mighty truths of Christian metaphysics. This erroneous

general belief, which sustains medicine and produces all medical results, works against Christian Science; and the percentage of power on the side of this Science must mightily outweigh the power of popular belief in order to heal a single case of disease. The human mind acts more powerfully to offset the discords of matter and the ills of flesh, in proportion as it puts less weight into the material or fleshly scale and more weight into the spiritual scale. Homœopathy diminishes the drug, but the potency of the medicine increases as the drug disappears.

Vegetarianism, homœopathy, and hydropathy have diminished drugging; but if drugs are an antidote to

disease, why lessen the antidote? If drugs are good things, is it safe to say that the less in quantity you have of them the better? If drugs