ll upon a lady who had, quite unknown to me,
entered upon the study of Christian Science.

She remarked to me, almost as soon as the greetings were exchanged, "I
had a claim to meet for three days this week, but I have come through
it and am victorious."

I supposed the lady referred to some business matter, perhaps a legal
affair, and waited an explanation.

After considerable rambling conversation, I managed to grasp the fact
that the woman had been sick in the house three days, but now was well.
She considered her illness a mere "claim" her "mortal mind" had made
which she had to meet and combat.

All this sort of talk is very ridiculous. We need not talk about every
ailment which attacks us as we move along toward the condition of
perfect health which belongs to us! But if we do speak of
indisposition, let us use common sense language.

What we want to realize is, that we are in the body, but that the
spirit can control bodily conditions, if we give it the ascendency, to
the extent of keeping us well, moral, useful, and comfortable even in
the midst of sickness, vice, indolence and poverty.

We can rise above these false elements, and subjugate them.

Meanwhile we cannot live without food, clothes and money.

Despise and ignore these vulgar things as we may assume to do, we yet
must have them.

It brings only ridicule upon ourselves and our ideas to make this
pretense of despising the necessities of life.

To make them secondary in our thoughts to spiritual knowledge is right
and wise, but this is better illustrated by our lives and conduct than
by our words.

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