Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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wholly between minds, and not bodies, to break down
wholly between minds, and not bodies, to break down
the beliefs of personal sense or pain in matter, and stop
its supposed utterances so that the voice of Soul, the
immortality of man, is heard. The belief of Life and
sensation in matter is the source of all suffering and
sin. The science of being reveals Life, conscious Soul
and not sense, Spirit and not matter, and this leaves
man safe in Soul, where there is no recognition of sick-
ness, sin, or death. To raise the dead, restore the sick,
or reform the sinner, we should understand science in
its first statement, namely, that nothing is real but God,
and His idea; aught beside is illusion, error and be-
lief, that disappear. Recognizing the nothingness of
sickness, sin, and death, is all that will ever bring out
the harmony of man, or enable him to conquer them.
With this scientific starting-point we shall master dis-
ease and temptation, or blush to be conquered by what
is unreal. Understanding discord unreal, and harmony
the only reality, emboldens us to fight the good fight.
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Never admit error real as Truth, for if you do you
Never admit error real as Truth, for if you do you
will have more difficulty to get right than you need
have. To turn a sinner from his error or belief, is more
difficult than to turn the sick from theirs; for the lat-
ter, weary of suffering from it, yearn to relinquish it,
and when the sinner reaches this point he is reformed.
If science destroys not sickness, sin, and death, they
are immortal. The only remedy for sin, sickness, or
death, is obedience to the law of Life, and if Christ,
Truth, be insufficient to cure sickness and destroy death,
man is mortal. If we learn in part, even, the science
of Life, it begins at once to destroy mental and phys-
ical discord.
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The demonstrations and explanations of Jesus em-
The demonstrations and explanations of Jesus em-
braced all the theology or materia medica necessary to
heal the sick or make Christians, and because he never
recommended materia medica, hygiene, physiology, etc.,
we infer these methods are anti-Christian. If, as the
Scripture saith, and science confirms, Jesus did the will
of God, we are not doing his will who follow not his
example, but resort to methods all our own.
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"Herbs for the healing of the nations" typified the
"Herbs for the healing of the nations" typified the
"balm in Gilead" and a physician there, even Soul the
healer, and science the balm, which was Spirit tri-
umphing over matter. Truth neither destroys Truth,
nor creates error to be destroyed. Life never destroys
Life, nor creates death to destroy it. Truth, or Life,
is not the author of sin or death, and there is neither
power nor Intelligence in matter. Sickness and death
are the opposites of harmony and Life, and no law can
support what Christ, Truth, destroys. The only law
in existence, or that we should acknowledge, is God, the
Principle of man, controlling man and matter. Spirit
is not personality, nor persons that have passed away;
and nature is God, hence it is Spirit and not matter.
Intelligence governs man and the universe, but never
instituted material law to govern them, and Spirit never
produced matter. The Bible contains all our recipes
for healing, and this is one of them:
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"Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art
"Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art
in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary de-
liver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to
the officer, and thou be cast into prison; verily I say
unto you, thou shalt not come out thence till thou hast
paid the uttermost farthing."