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

Chapter XII - Christian Science Practice

Disease-production

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with mental action and its effect in order to judge the case

according to Christian Science.

Appetites to be abandoned

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If a man is an inebriate, a slave to tobacco, or the special

servant of any one of the myriad forms of sin, meet and

destroy these errors with the truth of being, –

by exhibiting to the wrong-doer the suffering

which his submission to such habits brings, and by con-

vincing him that there is no real pleasure in false appe-

tites. A corrupt mind is manifested in a corrupt body.

Lust, malice, and all sorts of evil are diseased beliefs, and

you can destroy them only by destroying the wicked

motives which produce them. If the evil is over in the

repentant mortal mind, while its effects still remain on the

individual, you can remove this disorder as God's law is

fulfilled and reformation cancels the crime. The healthy

sinner is the hardened sinner.

Temperance reform

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The temperance reform, felt all over our land, results

from metaphysical healing, which cuts down every tree

that brings not forth good fruit. This con-

viction, that there is no real pleasure in sin,

is one of the most important points in the theology of

Christian Science. Arouse the sinner to this new and

true view of sin, show him that sin confers no pleasure,

and this knowledge strengthens his moral courage and

increases his ability to master evil and to love good.

Sin or fear the root of sickness

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Healing the sick and reforming the sinner are one and

the same thing in Christian Science. Both cures require

the same method and are inseparable in Truth.

Hatred, envy, dishonesty, fear, and so forth,

make a man sick, and neither material medi-

cine nor Mind can help him permanently, even in body,

unless it makes him better mentally, and so delivers him