Chapter 6: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine

Metaphysics challenges physics

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than does the metaphysician; for the matter-physician

agrees with the disease, while the metaphysician agrees

only with health and challenges disease.

Truth an alterative

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Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of

Truth, which invigorates and purifies. Christian Science

acts as an alterative, neutralizing error with

Truth. It changes the secretions, expels hu-

mors, dissolves tumors, relaxes rigid muscles, restores

carious bones to soundness. The effect of this Science is

to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it

may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind.

Practical success

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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 re-

stored health in cases of both acute and chronic disease in

their severest forms. Secretions have been changed, the

structure has been renewed, shortened limbs have been

elongated, ankylosed joints have been made supple, and

carious bones have been restored to healthy conditions. I

have restored what is called the lost substance of lungs, and

healthy organizations have been established where disease

was organic. Christian Science heals organic disease as

surely as it heals what is called functional, for it requires

only a fuller understanding of the divine Principle of

Christian Science to demonstrate the higher rule.

Testimony of medical teachers

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With due respect for the faculty, I kindly

quote from Dr. Benjamin Rush, the famous

Philadelphia teacher of medical practice. He

declared that "it is impossible to calculate the mischief