158 The Fundamentals spondence. Hence, until one goes to “Science and Health”, to read and find out for himself, he is very apt to be deceived by the brazen pretensions of Mrs. Eddy to a place among Christian teachers. “ healing ” Next we are to consider the matter of healing. I t is the custom of Mother Eddy’s followers to point to the wonderful cures that have been effected by themselves and their co religionists. The aim of the healer is to persuade the par tient that he is not sick, that he has no disease. I f the case is a cancer he is told that the inflammation in the flesh is caused by mortal mind; the seat of the trouble is in the thought, the belief. A man drinks poison and dies; but it is not the poison that kills him; vicious belief, or mortal mind, sends him to bis long home. If he only had been able to convince himself that the poison was pure, clear spring water, it would have done him no injury.* The infant when he utters the first wail has an “inherited” belief in pain! The horse when left standing without his blanket on a bitter winter day takes cold because there is a sort of universal horse conviction that this will happen, t And this is called “science” ! Of course, it is as unscientific as anything ever foisted upon the attention of the world—a mere jumble of unlearned assumptions without a scintilla of proof. I t is the philosophy of idealism gone mad. *“If a dose of poison is swallowed through mistake, and the patient dies, even though physician and patient are expecting favorable results, does human belief, you ask, cause this death? Even so; and as directly as if the poison had been intentionally taken” (p. 177, “Science and Health”). t ‘‘You can even educate a healthy horse so far in physiology that he will take cold without his blanket; whereas the wild animal left to his instincts, sniffs the wind with delight. The epizootic is a humanly evolved ailment, which a wild horse might never have” (p. 179, “Science and Health”).
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