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

Chapter XII - Christian Science Practice

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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, &