ce, and are unwilling to be
taught it, even gratuitously. If they did understand it, they [15]
could demonstrate this Science by healing the sick; hence
the injustice of their interpretations.

To many, the healing force developed by Christian
Science seems a mystery, because they do not understand
that Spirit controls body. They acknowledge the exist- [20]
ence of mortal mind, but believe it to reside in matter
of the brain; but that man is the idea of infinite Mind,
is not so easily accepted. That which is temporary
seems, to the common estimate, solid and substantial.
It is much easier for people to believe that the body [25]
affects mind, than that the body is an expression of
mind, and reflects harmony or discord according to
thought.

Everything that God created, He pronounced good.
He never made sickness. Hence _that_ is only an evil belief [30]
of mortal mind, which must be met, in every instance,
with a denial by Truth.

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This is the "new tongue," the language of them that [1]
"lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover," whose
spiritual interpretation they refuse to hear. For instance:
the literal meaning of the passage "lay hands on the sick"
would be manipulation; its moral meaning, found in the [5]
"new tongue," is spiritual power,--as, in another Scripture,
"I will triumph in the works of Thy hands."

Falsehood

The Greeks showed a just estimate of the person they
called slanderer, when they made the word synonymous [10]
with devil. If the simple falsehoods uttered about me
were compounded, the mixture would be labelled thus:
"Religionists' mistaken views of Mrs. Eddy's book, 'Sci-
ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and the
malice aforethought of sinners." [15]

That I take opium; that I am an infidel, a mesmerist,
a medium, a "pantheist;" or that my hourly life is prayerless,
or not in strict obedience to the Mosaic Decalogue,--
is not more true than that I am dead, as is oft reported.
The _St. Louis Democrat_ is alleged to have reported my [20]
demise, and to have said that I died of poison, and bequeathed
my property to Susan Anthony.

The opium falsehood has only this to it: Many years
ago my regular physician prescribed morphine, which I
took, when he could do no more for me. Afterwards, [25]
the glorious revelations of Christian Science saved me
from that necessity and made me well, since which time
I have not taken drugs, with the following exceptio