'Science and Health' by Mary Baker Glover

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BOSTON:

CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST PUBLISHING COMPANY

1875

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by

MARY BAKER GLOVER,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

W. F. Brown & Co., Printers,

60 Bromfield Street, Boston.

Science and Health

by Mary Baker Glover

Preface

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Leaning on the sustaining Infinite with loving trust,

the trials of to-day are brief, and to-morrow is big

with blessings. The wakeful shepherd tending his

flocks, beholds from the mountain's top the first faint

morning beam ere cometh the risen day, So from Soul's

loftier summits shines the pale star to the prophet shep-

herd, and it traverses night, over to where the young

child lies in cradled obscurity that shall waken a world.

Over the night of error dawn the morning beams and

guiding star of Truth, and "the wise men are led by it

to Science, to that which repeats the eternal harmony

reproduced in proof of immortality and God. The time

for thinkers has come; and the time for revolutions,

ecclesiastic and social, must come. Truth, independent

of doctrines of time-honored systems, stands at the

threshold of history. Contentment with the past, or

the cold conventionality of custom, may no longer shut

the door on science; though empires fall, "He whose

right it is shall reign." Ignorance of God should no

longer be the stepping-stone to faith; understanding

Him "whom to know aright is Life" is the only guar-

anty of obedience.

Since the hoary centuries but faintly shadow forth

the tireless Intelligence at work for man, this volume

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may not open at once a new thought, and make it famil-

iar; it has the task of a pioneer to hack away at the tall

oak and cut the rough granite, leaving future ages to

declare what has been done. We made our first discov-

ery that science mentally applied would heal the sick,

in 1864, and since then have tested it on ourselves and

hundreds of others, and never found it fail to prove the

statement herein made of it. The science of man alone

can make him harmonious, unfold his utmost possibilities,

and establish the perfection of man. To admit God the

Principle of all being, and live in accordance with this

Principle, is the Science of Life, but to reproduce the

harmony of being, errors of personal sense must be de-

stroyed, even as the science of music, must correct tones

caught from the ear, to give the sweet concord of sound.

There are many theories of physic, and theology; and

many calls in each of their directions for the right way;

but we propose to settle the question of "What is

Truth?" on the ground of proof. Let that method

of healing the sick and establishing Christianity, be

adopted, that is found to give the most health, and

make the best Christians, and you will then give science

a fair field; in which case we are assured of its tri-

umph over all opinions and beliefs. Sickness and sin

have ever had their doctors, but the question is, have

they become less because of them? The longevity of

our antediluvians would say, no! and the criminal

records of to-day utter their voices little in favor of

such a conclusion. Not that we would deny to Caesar

the things that are his, but that we ask for the tilings

that are Truth's, and safely affirm, from the demonstra-

tions we have been able to make, that science would

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have eradicated sin, sickness, and death, in a less period

than six thousand years. We find great difficulties in

starting this work right: some shockingly false claims

are already made to its practice; mesmerism (its very

antipode), is one. Hitherto we have never in a single

instance of our discovery or practice found the slightest

resemblance between mesmerism and the science of

Life. No especial idiosyncrasy is requisite for a learner;

although spiritual sense is more adapted to it than even

the intellect; and those who would learn this science

without a high moral standard will fail to understand it

until they go up higher. Owing to our explanations

constantly vibrating between the same points an irk-

some repetition of words must occur; also, the use of

capital letters, genders and technicalities peculiar to the

science, variety of language, or beauty of diction, must

give place to close analysis, and unembellished thought.

"Hoping all things, enduring all things:" to do good

to the upright in heart, and to bless them that curse us,

and bear to the sorrowing and the sick consolation and

healing, we commit these pages to posterity.

MARY BAKER GLOVER

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7:1TABLE OF CONTENTS

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I
Natural Science	9
II
Imposition and Demonstration	64
III
Spirit and Matter	147
IV
Creation	221
V
Prayer and Atonement	283
VI
Marriage	314
VII
Physiology	327
VIII
Healing the Sick	368

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