ord--the twistifying motion of the stomach
and what happens when the nerve-force gets a set-back and this motion
kind of winds itself upward instead of downward, and the nerve-force all
flies to the head. Proofs?" Here Uncle Martin paused, ill at ease. "Just
notice the cases. The proof is in the trying of it. The cures are
wonderful. You first get the patient into a state where you can make him
think as you do. Then you will that he shall forget all about his
diseases. You make him feel well, and you've done it."

"I suppose you could cure him by forgetfulness easily enough. I saw an
old soldier with one leg yesterday; he was drunk in the street. And he
had forgotten entirely that one leg was gone. But he didn't seem to walk
any better."

"That don't count, Charley, and you're only making fun. You see there is
a philosophy in this, and you ought to hear it from somebody that can
explain it."

"I'd like to find somebody who could," said Charley.

"Well, now, how's this? Miss Bowyer--she's a kind of a preacher as well as
a doctor--she says that God is good, and therefore he couldn't create evil.
You see? Well, now, God created everything that is, so there can not be any
evil. At least it can't have any real, independent--what-you-may-call-it
existence. You see, Charley?"

"Yes; what of it?"

"Well, then, sickness and sin are evil. But this argument proves that
they don't really exist at all. They're only magic-lantern shadows so to
speak. You see? Convince the patient that he is well, and he _is_ well."
Here Uncle Martin, having pointed out the easy road to universal health,
looked in solemn triumph from under his brows.

"Yes," said Millard, "that's just an awfully good scheme. But if you
work your argument backward it will prove that as evil exists there
isn't any good God. But if it's true that sin and disease have no real
existence, we'll do away with hanging and electrocution, as they call
it, and just send for Miss Bowyer to convince a murderer that murder is
an evil, and so it can't have any real independent existence in a
universe made by a good God."

"Well, Charley, you make fun of serious things. You might as well make
fun of the miracles in the Bible."

"Now," said Millard, "are the cures wrought by Christian Science
miracles, or are they founded on philosophy?"

"They're both, Charley. It's what they call the
psy-co-what-you-may-call-it mode of cure. But it's all the same as the
miracles of the B