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

Chapter XII - Christian Science Practice

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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