ver the world, each having an
independent existence. They are found chiefly in the United States,
England, Germany, and the British Colonies. The number of "healers"
exceeds several thousands, for the most part of the female sex. In
France the first "Church of Christ, Scientist" has been founded in
Paris, in the Rue Magellan, under the name of Washington Palace.

The Christian Science leader denounced the established churches and
spared them no criticism, and her doctrine contained a seed of truth
which enabled it to triumph even over its own lack of logic and
coherence.

The world, submerged in matter, either denies spirit or turns away from
it. Mrs. Eddy exalts the power of spirit above that of matter, the
universal goddess, by means of statements which are heroic rather than
scientific.

Matter does not exist. God is all, and God is spirit; therefore all is
spirit. Matter is not spirit, but is a fiction which only exists for
those who persist in believing in it against the evidence of facts. As
matter does not exist, and is only a lie and the invention of Satan,
the body, which we see in the form of matter, does not exist either.
The suffering caused by the body is simply an "error of mortal mind,"
for since the body does not exist, there can be no such thing as bodily
suffering. Therefore instead of concerning ourselves with the healing
of the supposed body, with the prevention or cure of pain and
suffering, we must go straight to spirit. Spirit is perfect, and the
thought of pain or disease can have no place in it. Let us then leave
the curing of our bodies, and seek to rectify our spirits.

Doctors and surgeons, on the contrary, follow the errors of centuries
in concerning themselves with the body, and causing it to absorb drugs
which, having no connection with disease, can neither cure nor relieve
it. "Mind as far outweighs drugs in the cure of disease as in the cure
of sin. The more excellent way is divine Science in every case. . . .
The hosts of Aesculapius are flooding the world with diseases, because
they are ignorant that the human mind and body are myths."

A follower of the "true doctrine," according to Mrs. Eddy, is never ill
for the simple reason that he does not believe in the body or in any of
its infirmities. If he should be overtaken by illness, it is because
his spirit is ill, and his faith not sufficiently pure.

From this results a very simple method of healing. The "healer" m