HISTORICAL SKETCH
OF
Christian Science Mind-Healing.
I left my native hills, in the rock-ribbed State of
New Hampshire, that I might breathe, in the old Bay
State, the invigorating atmosphere of progress, and
plant the standard of a diviner freedom.
Constant invalidism, the early loss of all I loved, a hunger and thirst after divine things, — for something higher and purer than matter, and apart from it, — caused me, from childhood, to seek diligently the knowledge of God, as the one great, ever-present remedy for all human woe.
The physical side of this research was aided by hints from Homœopathy, sustaining my final conclusion that mortal belief, instead of the drug, governed the action of material medicine.
I wandered through the dim mazes of Materia Medica, till I was weary of “scientific guessing,” as it has been well called. To restore my health, I sought aid from the different schools, — Allopathy, Homœopathy, Hydropathy, Electricity, and from various humbugs, — but without receiving permanent help.
I found, in the two hundred and sixty-two remedies enumerated by Jahr, one pervading secret, — namely, that the less material medicine we have, and the more Mind, the better the work is done; a fact which seems to prove the principle of Mind-healing. One drop of
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