The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

entist came, and I was glad. She was middle-aged, and large and bony and erect, and had an austere face and a resolute jaw and a Roman beak and

and hung the articles up; peeled off her gloves and disposed of them, got a book out of her hand-bag, then drew a cha

. We deal with the mind only

at the pulse was another dumb servant that she had no use for. Then I thought I would tell her my symptoms and how I felt, so that she would understand the case; b

to speak of a non-existent thing as existent is a contradiction. Matter has no exis

hurts, just

nnot exercise the functions of reality.

yourself to speak of how you feel, nor permit others to ask you how you are feeling: you should never concede that you are ill, nor permit others to talk about disease or pain or death or similar non-existences in

pinion about

y; the lower animals, being eternally perishable, have no

gined she felt

is an effect of mind; without mind, there

had a re

you there is no suc

she not being able to imagine an imaginary thing, it would seem that God in his Pity has compensated the cat with some kind of a

in with an

ings are profanation and blasphemy, and can do you an injury. It is wiser and better and

not think I could be any more uncomfortable if they

ot exist. They are illusions propagated by matter, and ma

a degree elusive; it seems to slip through, ju

pla

is no such thing as matter, ho

ed. She would have smiled if ther

sed in the four following self-evident propositions: 1. God is All in all. 2. God is good. Good is Mind. 3. God, Sp

about the difficulty in hand-how non-existent matter

oes it

n if read backwa

pe, I asked her t

d life matter is nothing all being Spirit God Mind is Good

plainer than it w

el

try it some

when put in any other way. Because it is perfect. You can jumble it all up, and it makes no difference: it always comes out the way it was before.

s to be

rd, but it was out b

wha

tion, so to speak, or profound

ularly, or at any given angle, these four propositions

ee; they agree with-with-anyway, they agree; I noticed

ove: 1. GOD-Principle, Life, Truth, Lov

seem to. Go

idea, individual, perfec

ink so.

ding. There it is-the whole sublime Arcana of Christian Scie

it seems

we have the Scientific Definition of Mortal Mind. Thus. FIRST DEGREE: Depravity. 1. Physical-Passi

-unrealities, as

1. Moral-Honesty, affection, compassion, hop

yst

th, love. You see how searchingly and co-ordinately interdependent and anthropomorphous it all is.

ear

g and preparation for the

is to say, it could not succeed during the process of the Second Degree, because there would still be remains of mind left; and therefore-but I interrupted you. You

poreal human senses as to make this scriptural testimony true in our hearts, "the last shall be first and the first

f mind, it is reserved to the Third to make it permanent. A sentence framed under the auspices of the Second could have a kind of meaning-a sort of deceptive semblance of it-whereas it is only under the magic of the Third that that defect would

Good, non-Matter, Matterat

explai

, Individuality is one, and may be one of a series, one of many, as an individual man, ind

ore. How does Christian Science explain the spiritual r

finds it impossible to believe the sun not to be really rising, so the body is but the humble servant of the restful Mind, though it seems otherwise to finite sense; but we shall never understand this while we admit that soul is in body, or mind in matter, and that man is incl

erbal bowels. Particularly the Third Degree; it makes one think of a d

tian Science? Is it a gift o

ers are from Him, but the credit of the discovery of the

hen did th

fancies for which those terms stand, disappeared. The things themselves had never existed; therefore as soon as it was perceived that

ady write

the Scriptures"-for she explains the Scriptures; they were not understood bef

rgotten to bri

. She begins thus: "In the year 1866 I discovered the Science of Metaphysical Healing, and named it Christian Science." And she says-quite beautifully, I think-"Through Christian Science, reli

undertaker in the old way; for religion and medicine properly belong together, they being the basis of a

cine in any circums

adam, i

says, and I don't wi

but you see the mention seemed

ot be otherwise, since it proceeds directly from the All-in-all and the Everything-in-Which, also Soul, Bones, Tr

see tha

movable basis of an A

and disordered me a little, and before I could inquire int

ind-healing, the sovereign Omnipotence which delivers the children of

every ill, e

there is no such thing as decay-it

s your failing eyesight

can fail; the Mind is master, and

d be no profit in continuing this part of the subject. I shifted to oth

like Klondike, or after long stu

answer in the Discoverer's own words: "God had been graciously fitting me, during many years,

ears? H

en cent

, Bones, Liver, one of a series alo

nder, is distinctly referred to and her coming prophesied, in the twelfth chapter of the Apocalyps

nge, how

h chapter of the Apocalypse has a special suggestiveness in connection wi

t does i

ng of the Sixth Seal, typical of six thousand years since Adam, there is on

in heaven-a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon un

verer of Christian Science-nothing can

n fled into the wilderness, where

is B

and impressive; I never understood these passag

well.

oud; and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun

words be modester? Yet how stupendous its i

s i

my hand-"Chris

eys, one of a series, alone and without e

ngel. Take up Divine Science. Read it from beginning to end. Study it, ponder it. It will be indeed sweet at its first taste, when it heals you; but murmur not over Truth, if you find its digestion bitter." You now know the history of ou