Christian Science

ecorative value as a witness, either for or against herself, for she deals mainly in unsupported assertion; and in the rare cases where she puts forward a verifiable fact she gets out of

complexion, mood, and carriage that mark-exteriorly-the march of the years and record the accumulations of experience, while-interiorly-through all this steady drift of evolution the one essential detail, the commanding detail, the master detail of the make-up remains as it wa

y may live long without finding it out, but when the opportunity comes he will know, will strike for the largest thing within the limit of his chances at the time-constable, perhaps-and will be glad and proud when he gets it, and will write home about it. But he will not stop with that start; his appetite will come again; and b

. If they had come early, they would have found her ready and competent. And they-not she-would have determined what they would set her at and what they would make of her. If they had elected to commission her as second-assistant cook in a bankrupt boarding-house, I know the rest of it-I know what would have happened. She would have owned the boarding-house within six months; she would have had the late proprietor on salary and humping himself, as the worldly say; she would have had that boarding-house spewing money like a mint; she would have worked the servants and the

and there is more to it. And I have not been steeping myself in Christian Science all these weeks without finding out t

-it had been experimented with for ages, and was no one's special property. [For the present, for convenience' sake, let us proceed upon the hypothesis that that was all she got of him, and that she put up the rest of the assets herself. This will strain us, but let us try it.] In each and all its forms and under all its many names, mental healing had had limits,

transforming air; that to breathe it is to be made new; that from the new man all sorrow, all care, all miseries of the mind vanish away, for that only peace, contentment and measureless joy can live in t

shining upon lupus, cures it-a horrible disease which was incurable fifteen years ago, and had been incurable for ten million years before; that this wonder, unbelievable by the physicians at first, is believed by them now; and so he is tranquilly confident that the ti

that the healer's mind performs no office but to convey that force to the patient; that it is merely the wire which carries the electric fluid, so to speak, and d

es which would have ranked as miracles fifty years ago-and they have so greatly extended their domination over disease that we feel so well

ntented, unharassed. I have not found an outsider whose observation of Scientists furnished him a view that differed from my own. Buoyant spirits, comfort of mind, freedom from care these happinesses we all have, at intervals; but in the spaces between, dear me, the black ho

Eddy will have a monument that will reach above the clouds. For if she did not hit upon that imperial idea and evolve it and deliver it, its discoverer can never be identified with certainty, now, I think. It is the gia

e the size of her find, at first.) It had to grow upon her, by degrees, in accordance with the inalterable custom of Circumstan

merely in the mental-healing detail, and perhaps m

her commerce would grow. She would inspire in patient and pupil confidence

able that by consequence their manner towards her changed little by little, and from respectful became reverent. It is conceivable that this would have an influence upon her; that it would incline her to wond

us voice-just as had happened to little Samuel. (Mentioned in her Autobiography.) She would

and that from this, in time, would result that great birth, the healing of body and mind by the inpouring of the Spirit of God-the cent