Chapter 12: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter XII - Christian Science Practice

Soundness maintained

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herited consumption, or disease arising from any cir-

cumstance, and you will find that mortal mind, when

instructed by Truth, yields to divine power, which steers

the body into health.

Our footsteps heavenward

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The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less

difficult when she has the high goal always before her

thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps

in endeavoring to reach it. When the desti-

nation is desirable, expectation speeds our progress. The

struggle for Truth makes one strong instead of weak,

resting instead of wearying one. If the belief in death

were obliterated, and the understanding obtained that

there is no death, this would be a "tree of life," known

by its fruits. Man should renew his energies and en-

deavors, and see the folly of hypocrisy, while also learn-

ing the necessity of working out his own salvation. When

it is learned that disease cannot destroy life, and that

mortals are not saved from sin or sickness by death, this

understanding will quicken into newness of life. It will

master either a desire to die or a dread of the grave,

and thus destroy the great fear that besets mortal

existence.

Christian standard

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The relinquishment of all faith in death and also of

the fear of its sting would raise the standard of health

and morals far beyond its present elevation,

and would enable us to hold the banner of

Christianity aloft with unflinching faith in God, in Life

eternal. Sin brought death, and death will disappear

with the disappearance of sin. Man is immortal, and

the body cannot die, because matter has no life to sur-

render. The human concepts named matter, death, dis-

ease, sickness, and sin are all that can be destroyed.

Life not contingent on matter

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If it is true that man lives, this fact can never change

in Science to the opposite belief that man dies. Life is

the law of Soul, even the law of the spirit of

Truth, and Soul is never without its represent-

ative. Man's individual being can no more

die nor disappear in unconsciousness than can Soul, for

both are immortal. If man believes in death now, he

must disbelieve in it when learning that there is no reality

in death, since the truth of being is deathless. The be-

lief that existence is contingent on matter must be met

and mastered by Science, before Life can be understood

and harmony obtained.

Mortality vanquished

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Death is but another phase of the dream that exist-

ence can be material. Nothing can interfere with the

harmony of being nor end the existence of

man in Science. Man is the same after as

before a bone is broken or the body guillotined. If man

is never to overcome death, why do the Scriptures say,

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death"? The

tenor of the Word shows that we shall obtain the victory

over death in proportion as we overcome sin. The great

difficulty lies in ignorance of what God is. God, Life,

Truth, and Love make man undying. Immortal Mind,

governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the

physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual.

No death nor inaction

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Called to the bed of death, what material remedy has

man when all such remedies have failed? Spirit is his

last resort, but it should have been his first

and only resort. The dream of death must

be mastered by Mind here or hereafter. Thought

will waken from its own material declaration, "I am

dead," to catch this trumpet-word of Truth, "There

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is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor

reaction."

Vision opening

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Life is real, and death is the illusion. A demonstra-

tion of the facts of Soul in Jesus' way resolves the dark

visions of material sense into harmony and

immortality. Man's privilege at this supreme

moment is to prove the words of our Master: "If a man

keep my saying, he shall never see death." To divest

thought of false trusts and material evidences in order

that the spiritual facts of being may appear, – this is

the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep

away the false and give place to the true. Thus we may

establish in truth the temple, or body, "whose builder

and maker is God."

Intelligent consecration

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We should consecrate existence, not "to the unknown

God" whom we "ignorantly worship," but to the eternal

builder, the everlasting Father, to the Life

which mortal sense cannot impair nor mortal

belief destroy. We must realize the ability of mental

might to offset human misconceptions and to replace them

with the life which is spiritual, not material.

The present immortality

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The great spiritual fact must be brought out that man

is, not shall be, perfect and immortal. We must hold

forever the consciousness of existence, and

sooner or later, through Christ and Christian

Science, we must master sin and death. The evidence

of man's immortality will become more apparent, as ma-

terial beliefs are given up and the immortal facts of being

are admitted.

Careful guidance

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The author has healed hopeless organic disease, and

raised the dying to life and health through the under-

standing of God as the only Life. It is a sin to believe

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that aught can overpower omnipotent and eternal Life,

and this Life must be brought to light by the understand-

ing that there is no death, as well as by other

graces of Spirit. We must begin, however,

with the more simple demonstrations of control, and

the sooner we begin the better. The final demonstration

takes time for its accomplishment. When walking, we

are guided by the eye. We look before our feet, and if

we are wise, we look beyond a single step in the line of

spiritual advancement.

Clay replying to the potter

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The corpse, deserted by thought, is cold and decays,

but it never suffers. Science declares that man is sub-

ject to Mind. Mortal mind affirms that mind

is subordinate to the body, that the body is

dying, that it must be buried and decomposed

into dust; but mortal mind's affirmation is not true.

Mortals waken from the dream of death with bodies un-

seen by those who think that they bury the body.

Continuity of existence

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If man did not exist before the material organization

began, he could not exist after the body is disintegrated.

If we live after death and are immortal, we

must have lived before birth, for if Life ever

had any beginning, it must also have an ending, even ac-

cording to the calculations of natural science. Do you

believe this? No! Do you understand it? No! This

is why you doubt the statement and do not demonstrate

the facts it involves. We must have faith in all the say-

ings of our Master, though they are not included in the

teachings of the schools, and are not understood gener-

ally by our ethical instructors.

Life all-inclusive

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Jesus said (John viii. 51), "If a man keep my saying,

he shall never see death." That statement is not con-

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fined to spiritual life, but includes all the phenomena of

existence. Jesus demonstrated this, healing the dying

and raising the dead. Mortal mind must part

with error, must put off itself with its deeds,

and immortal manhood, the Christ ideal, will appear.

Faith should enlarge its borders and strengthen its base

by resting upon Spirit instead of matter. When man

gives up his belief in death, he will advance more rapidly

towards God, Life, and Love. Belief in sickness and

death, as certainly as belief in sin, tends to shut out the

true sense of Life and health. When will mankind wake

to this great fact in Science?

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I here present to my readers an allegory illustrative

of the law of divine Mind and of the supposed laws of mat-

ter and hygiene, an allegory in which the plea of Christian

Science heals the sick.

A mental court case

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Suppose a mental case to be on trial, as cases are tried

in court. A man is charged with having committed liver‑

complaint. The patient feels ill, ruminates,

and the trial commences. Personal Sense is

the plaintiff. Mortal Man is the defendant. False Belief

is the attorney for Personal Sense. Mortal Minds, Ma-

teria Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Hypnotism, Envy,

Greed and Ingratitude, constitute the jury. The court-

room is filled with interested spectators, and Judge

Medicine is on the bench.

The evidence for the prosecution being called for, a

witness testifies thus: –

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I represent Health-laws. I was present on certain nights

when the prisoner, or patient, watched with a sick friend.

Although I have the superintendence of human affairs, I

was personally abused on those occasions. I was told that

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I must remain silent until called for at this trial, when I

would be allowed to testify in the case. Notwithstanding

my rules to the contrary, the prisoner watched with the sick

every night in the week. When the sick mortal was thirsty,

the prisoner gave him drink. During all this time the pris-

oner attended to his daily labors, partaking of food at ir-

regular intervals, sometimes going to sleep immediately

after a heavy meal. At last he committed liver-complaint,

which I considered criminal, inasmuch as this offence is

deemed punishable with death. Therefore I arrested Mor-

tal Man in behalf of the state (namely, the body) and cast

him into prison.

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At the time of the arrest the prisoner summoned Physi-

ology, Materia Medica, and Hypnotism to prevent his pun-

ishment. The struggle on their part was long. Materia

Medica held out the longest, but at length all these assist-

ants resigned to me, Health-laws, and I succeeded in get-

ting Mortal Man into close confinement until I should

release him.

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The next witness is called:-

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I am Coated Tongue. I am covered with a foul fur,

placed on me the night of the liver-attack. Morbid Secre-

tion hypnotized the prisoner and took control of his mind,

making him despondent.

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Another witness takes the stand and testifies:-

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I am Sallow Skin. I have been dry, hot, and chilled by

turns since the night of the liver-attack. I have lost my

healthy hue and become unsightly, although nothing on my

part has occasioned this change. I practise daily ablutions

and perform my functions as usual, but I am robbed of my

good looks.

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The next witness testifies: –

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I am Nerve, the State Commissioner for Mortal Man.

I am intimately acquainted with the plaintiff, Personal

Sense, and know him to be truthful and upright, whereas

Mortal Man, the prisoner at the bar, is capable of false-

hood. I was witness to the crime of liver-complaint. I

knew the prisoner would commit it, for I convey messages

from my residence in matter, alias brain, to body.

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Another witness is called for by the Court of Error

and says: –

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I am Mortality, Governor of the Province of Body, in

which Mortal Man resides. In this province there is a stat-

ute regarding disease, – namely, that he upon whose per-

son disease is found shall be treated as a criminal and

punished with death.

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The Judge asks if by doing good to his neighbor, it is

possible for man to become diseased, transgress the laws,

and merit punishment, and Governor Mortality replies in

the affirmative.

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Another witness takes the stand and testifies: –

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I am Death. I was called for, shortly after the report of

the crime, by the officer of the Board of Health, who pro-

tested that the prisoner had abused him, and that my pres-

ence was required to confirm his testimony. One of the

prisoner's friends, Materia Medica, was present when I

arrived, endeavoring to assist the prisoner to escape from

the hands of justice, alias nature's so-called law; but my

appearance with a message from the Board of Health

changed the purpose of Materia Medica, and he decided at

once that the prisoner should die.

Judge Medicine charges the jury

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The testimony for the plaintiff, Personal Sense, being

closed, Judge Medicine arises, and with great solemnity

addresses the jury of Mortal Minds. He an-

alyzes the offence, reviews the testimony, and

explains the law relating to liver-complaint.

His conclusion is, that laws of nature render disease

homicidal. In compliance with a stern duty, his Honor,

Judge Medicine, urges the jury not to allow their judg-

ment to be warped by the irrational, unchristian sugges-

tions of Christian Science. The jury must regard in such

cases only the evidence of Personal Sense against Mortal

Man.

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As the Judge proceeds, the prisoner grows restless. His

sallow face blanches with fear, and a look of despair and

death settles upon it. The case is given to the jury. A

brief consultation ensues, and the jury returns a verdict

of "Guilty of liver-complaint in the first degree."

Mortal Man sentenced

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Judge Medicine then proceeds to pronounce the solemn

sentence of death upon the prisoner. Because he has

loved his neighbor as himself, Mortal Man has

been guilty of benevolence in the first degree,

and this has led him into the commission of the second

crime, liver-complaint, which material laws condemn as

homicide. For this crime Mortal Man is sentenced to

be tortured until he is dead. "May God have mercy on

your soul," is the Judge's solemn peroration.

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The prisoner is then remanded to his cell (sick-bed),

and Scholastic Theology is sent for to prepare the fright-

ened sense of Life, God, – which sense must be immortal,

– for death.

Appeal to a higher tribunal

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Ah! but Christ, Truth, the spirit of Life and the

friend of Mortal Man, can open wide those prison doors

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and set the captive free. Swift on the wings of divine

Love, there comes a despatch: "Delay the execution;

the prisoner is not guilty." Consternation fills

the prison-yard. Some exclaim, "It is con-

trary to law and justice." Others say,

"The law of Christ supersedes our laws; let us follow

Christ."

Counsel for defence

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After much debate and opposition, permission is ob-

tained for a trial in the Court of Spirit, where Christian

Science is allowed to appear as counsel for

the unfortunate prisoner. Witnesses, judges

and jurors, who were at the previous Court of Error,

are now summoned to appear before the bar of Justice

and eternal Truth.

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When the case for Mortal Man versus Personal Sense

is opened, Mortal Man's counsel regards the prisoner

with the utmost tenderness. The counsel's earnest,

solemn eyes, kindling with hope and triumph, look up-

ward. Then Christian Science turns suddenly to the

supreme tribunal, and opens the argument for the

defence: –

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The prisoner at the bar has been unjustly sentenced.

His trial was a tragedy, and is morally illegal. Mortal

Man has had no proper counsel in the case. All the testi-

mony has been on the side of Personal Sense, and we shall

unearth this foul conspiracy against the liberty and life of

Man. The only valid testimony in the case shows the

alleged crime never to have been committed. The pris-

oner is not proved "worthy of death, or of bonds."

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Your Honor, the lower court has sentenced Mortal Man

to die, but God made Man immortal and amenable to

Spirit only. Denying justice to the body, that court com-

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mended man's immortal Spirit to heavenly mercy, – Spirit

which is God Himself and Man's only lawgiver! Who or

what has sinned? Has the body or has Mortal Mind

committed a criminal deed? Counsellor False Belief has

argued that the body should die, while Reverend Theology

would console conscious Mortal Mind, which alone is capa-

ble of sin and suffering. The body committed no offence.

Mortal Man, in obedience to higher law, helped his fellow‑

man, an act which should result in good to himself as well

as to others.

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The law of our Supreme Court decrees that whosoever

sinneth shall die; but good deeds are immortal, bringing

joy instead of grief, pleasure instead of pain, and life

instead of death. If liver-complaint was committed by

trampling on Laws of Health, this was a good deed, for the

agent of those laws is an outlaw, a destroyer of Mortal

Man's liberty and rights. Laws of Health should be sen-

tenced to die.

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Watching beside the couch of pain in the exercise of a

love that "is the fulfilling of the law," – doing "unto

others as ye would that they should do unto you," – this

is no infringement of law, for no demand, human or divine,

renders it just to punish a man for acting justly. If mor-

tals sin, our Supreme Judge in equity decides what penalty

is due for the sin, and Mortal Man can suffer only for his

sin. For naught else can he be punished, according to the

law of Spirit, God.

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Then what jurisdiction had his Honor, Judge Medicine,

in this case? To him I might say, in Bible language, "Sit-

test thou to judge . . . after the law, and commandest . . .

to be smitten contrary to the law?" The only jurisdiction

to which the prisoner can submit is that of Truth, Life, and

Love. If they condemn him not, neither shall Judge Medi-

cine condemn him; and I ask that the prisoner be restored

to the liberty of which he has been unjustly deprived.

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The principal witness (the officer of the Health-laws)

deposed that he was an eye-witness to the good deeds for

which Mortal Man is under sentence of death. After be-

traying him into the hands of your law, the Health-agent

disappeared, to reappear however at the trial as a witness

against Mortal Man and in the interest of Personal Sense,

a murderer. Your Supreme Court must find the pris-

oner on the night of the alleged offence to have been acting

within the limits of the divine law, and in obedience

thereto. Upon this statute hangs all the law and testimony.

Giving a cup of cold water in Christ's name, is a Christian

service. Laying down his life for a good deed, Mortal Man

should find it again. Such acts bear their own justifica-

tion, and are under the protection of the Most High.

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Prior to the night of his arrest, the prisoner summoned

two professed friends, Materia Medica and Physiology, to

prevent his committing liver-complaint, and thus save him

from arrest. But they brought with them Fear, the sheriff,

to precipitate the result which they were called to prevent.

It was Fear who handcuffed Mortal Man and would now

punish him. You have left Mortal Man no alternative.

He must obey your law, fear its consequences, and be pun-

ished for his fear. His friends struggled hard to rescue the

prisoner from the penalty they considered justly due, but

they were compelled to let him be taken into custody, tried,

and condemned. Thereupon Judge Medicine sat in judg-

ment on the case, and substantially charged the jury, twelve

Mortal Minds, to find the prisoner guilty. His Honor sen-

tenced Mortal Man to die for the very deeds which the di-

vine law compels man to commit. Thus the Court of Error

construed obedience to the law of divine Love as disobedi-

ence to the law of Life. Claiming to protect Mortal Man

in right-doing, that court pronounced a sentence of death

for doing right.

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One of the principal witnesses, Nerve, testified that he

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was a ruler of Body, in which province Mortal Man resides.

He also testified that he was on intimate terms with the

plaintiff, and knew Personal Sense to be truthful; that he

knew Man, and that Man was made in the image of God,

but was a criminal. This is a foul aspersion on man's

Maker. It blots the fair escutcheon of omnipotence. It in-

dicates malice aforethought, a determination to condemn

Man in the interest of Personal Sense. At the bar of Truth,

in the presence of divine Justice, before the Judge of our

higher tribunal, the Supreme Court of Spirit, and before

its jurors, the Spiritual Senses, I proclaim this witness,

Nerve, to be destitute of intelligence and truth and to be

a false witness.

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Man self-destroyed; the testimony of matter respected;

Spirit not allowed a hearing; Soul a criminal though

recommended to mercy; the helpless innocent body tor-

tured, – these are the terrible records of your Court of

Error, and I ask that the Supreme Court of Spirit reverse

this decision.

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Here the opposing counsel, False Belief, called Chris-

tian Science to order for contempt of court. Various

notables – Materia Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Scho-

lastic Theology, and Jurisprudence – rose to the ques-

tion of expelling Christian Science from the bar, for such

high-handed illegality. They declared that Christian Sci-

ence was overthrowing the judicial proceedings of a regu-

larly constituted court.

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But Judge Justice of the Supreme Court of Spirit over-

ruled their motions on the ground that unjust usages

were not allowed at the bar of Truth, which ranks above

the lower Court of Error.

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The attorney, Christian Science, then read from the

supreme statute-book, the Bible, certain extracts on the

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Rights of Man, remarking, that the Bible was better au-

thority than Blackstone: –

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Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and

let them have dominion.

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Behold, I give unto you power . . . over all the power

of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

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If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

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Then Christian Science proved the witness, Nerve, to

be a perjurer. Instead of being a ruler in the Province

of Body, in which Mortal Man was reported to reside,

Nerve was an insubordinate citizen, putting in false

claims to office and bearing false witness against Man.

Turning suddenly to Personal Sense, by this time silent,

Christian Science continued: –

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I ask your arrest in the name of Almighty God on three

distinct charges of crime, to wit: perjury, treason, and con-

spiracy against the rights and life of man.

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Then Christian Science continued:

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Another witness, equally inadequate, said that on the

night of the crime a garment of foul fur was spread over

him by Morbid Secretion, while the facts in the case show

that this fur is a foreign substance, imported by False Be-

lief, the attorney for Personal Sense, who is in partnership

with Error and smuggles Error's goods into market with-

out the inspection of Soul's government officers. When

the Court of Truth summoned Furred Tongue for examina-

tion, he disappeared and was never heard of more.

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Morbid Secretion is not an importer or dealer in fur, but

we have heard Materia Medica explain how this fur is

manufactured, and we know Morbid Secretion to be on

friendly terms with the firm of Personal Sense, Error, &

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Co., receiving pay from them and introducing their goods

into the market. Also, be it known that False Belief, the

counsel for the plaintiff, Personal Sense, is a buyer for this

firm. He manufactures for it, keeps a furnishing store,

and advertises largely for his employers.

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Death testified that he was absent from the Province of

Body, when a message came from False Belief, command-

ing him to take part in the homicide. At this request

Death repaired to the spot where the liver-complaint was

in process, frightening away Materia Medica, who was then

manacling the prisoner in the attempt to save him. True,

Materia Medica was a misguided participant in the misdeed

for which the Health-officer had Mortal Man in custody,

though Mortal Man was innocent.

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Christian Science turned from the abashed witnesses,

his words flashing as lightning in the perturbed faces

of these worthies, Scholastic Theology, Materia Medica,

Physiology, the blind Hypnotism, and the masked Per-

sonal Sense, and said: –

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God will smite you, O whited walls, for injuring in your

ignorance the unfortunate Mortal Man who sought your

aid in his struggles against liver-complaint and Death.

You came to his rescue, only to fasten upon him an offence

of which he was innocent. You aided and abetted Fear

and Health-laws. You betrayed Mortal Man, meanwhile

declaring Disease to be God's servant and the righteous

executor of His laws. Our higher statutes declare you all,

witnesses, jurors, and judges, to be offenders, awaiting the

sentence which General Progress and Divine Love will

pronounce.

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We send our best detectives to whatever locality is re-

ported to be haunted by Disease, but on visiting the spot,

they learn that Disease was never there, for he could not

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possibly elude their search. Your Material Court of Errors,

when it condemned Mortal Man on the ground of hygienic

disobedience, was manipulated by the oleaginous machina-

tions of the counsel, False Belief, whom Truth arraigns

before the supreme bar of Spirit to answer for his crime.

Morbid Secretion is taught how to make sleep befool reason

before sacrificing mortals to their false gods.

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Mortal Minds were deceived by your attorney, False Be-

lief, and were influenced to give a verdict delivering Mortal

Man to Death. Good deeds are transformed into crimes,

to which you attach penalties; but no warping of justice

can render disobedience to the so-called laws of Matter

disobedience to God, or an act of homicide. Even penal

law holds homicide, under stress of circumstances, to be

justifiable. Now what greater justification can any deed

have, than that it is for the good of one's neighbor? Where-

fore, then, in the name of outraged justice, do you sentence

Mortal Man for ministering to the wants of his fellow-man

in obedience to divine law? You cannot trample upon the

decree of the Supreme Bench. Mortal Man has his appeal

to Spirit, God, who sentences only for sin.

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The false and unjust beliefs of your human mental legis-

lators compel them to enact wicked laws of sickness and so

forth, and then render obedience to these laws punishable

as crime. In the presence of the Supreme Lawgiver, stand-

ing at the bar of Truth, and in accordance with the divine

statutes, I repudiate the false testimony of Personal Sense.

I ask that he be forbidden to enter against Mortal Man

any more suits to be tried at the Court of Material Error.

I appeal to the just and equitable decisions of divine Spirit

to restore to Mortal Man the rights of which he has been

deprived.

Charge of the Chief Justice

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Here the counsel for the defence closed, and the Chief

Justice of the Supreme Court, with benign and imposing

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presence, comprehending and defining all law and evi-

dence, explained from his statute-book, the

Bible, that any so-called law, which under-

takes to punish aught but sin, is null and void.

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He also decided that the plaintiff, Personal Sense, be

not permitted to enter any suits at the bar of Soul, but

be enjoined to keep perpetual silence, and in case of

temptation, to give heavy bonds for good behavior. He

concluded his charge thus: –

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The plea of False Belief we deem unworthy of a hearing.

Let what False Belief utters, now and forever, fall into

oblivion, "unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown." Accord-

ing to our statute, Material Law is a liar who cannot bear

witness against Mortal Man, neither can Fear arrest Mortal

Man nor can Disease cast him into prison. Our law refuses

to recognize Man as sick or dying, but holds him to be for-

ever in the image and likeness of his Maker. Reversing the

testimony of Personal Sense and the decrees of the Court of

Error in favor of Matter, Spirit decides in favor of Man

and against Matter. We further recommend that Materia

Medica adopt Christian Science and that Health-laws,

Mesmerism, Hypnotism, Oriental Witchcraft, and Esoteric

Magic be publicly executed at the hands of our sheriff,

Progress.

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The Supreme Bench decides in favor of intelligence, that

no law outside of divine Mind can punish or reward Mortal

Man. Your personal jurors in the Court of Error are

myths. Your attorney, False Belief, is an impostor, per-

suading Mortal Minds to return a verdict contrary to law

and gospel. The plaintiff, Personal Sense, is recorded in

our Book of books as a liar. Our great Teacher of mental

jurisprudence speaks of him also as "a murderer from the

beginning." We have no trials for sickness before the tri-

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bunal of divine Spirit. There, Man is adjudged innocent

of transgressing physical laws, because there are no such

laws. Our statute is spiritual, our Government is divine.

"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

Divine verdict

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The Jury of Spiritual Senses agreed at once upon a

verdict, and there resounded throughout the vast audience-

chamber of Spirit the cry, Not guilty. Then

the prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free.

We noticed, as he shook hands with his counsel, Chris-

tian Science, that all sallowness and debility had dis-

appeared. His form was erect and commanding, his

countenance beaming with health and happiness. Divine

Love had cast out fear. Mortal Man, no longer sick

and in prison, walked forth, his feet "beautiful upon the

mountains," as of one "that bringeth good tidings."

Christ the great physician

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Neither animal magnetism nor hypnotism enters into

the practice of Christian Science, in which truth cannot

be reversed, but the reverse of error is true.

An improved belief cannot retrograde. When

Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into

a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understand-

ing, and sin, disease, and death disappear. Christ, Truth,

gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the ma-

terial, transformed with the ideal, disappears, and man

is clothed and fed spiritually. St. Paul says, "Work

out your own salvation with fear and trembling:" Jesus

said, "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good

pleasure to give you the kingdom." This truth is

Christian Science.

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Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental

malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when

awake.

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