Because this Science of Spirit seems to bring into dishonor the scientific schools, — wrestling with material observations, — I have met with opposition; but if my system honors God, I ought to encounter aid, not obstacles, from all thinking people. And this Science does honor God, as no other theory honors Him; and it does this in the way of His appointing, by doing many wonderful works.
I must fulfil my mission without timidity or dissimulation, since to be well done the work must be done unselfishly. Christianity will never be based on a Divine Principle, and so found to be unerring, until its Science is reached. When this is accomplished, neither pride, prejudice, bigotry, nor envy can wash away its foundation, for it is built upon the rock, Christ.
Question. — Does Christian Science, or Metaphysical Healing, include medication, hygiene, mesmerism, or mediumship?
Answer. — Not one of them is included in it. The supposed laws of matter yield to the law of Mind in Divine Science. What are termed Natural Science and Material Law are laws of mortal mind. The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals. Physical force and mortal mind are one. Drugs and hygiene oppose the supremacy of the Divine Mind, and act against it. Drugs and inert matter are unconscious. Certain results, supposed to proceed from them, are really caused by that faith in them which human consciousness is educated to feel.
Mesmerism is the right hand of Humbug, and is either delusion or fraud. When first teaching Mental Science I permitted students to manipulate the head, ignorant
