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From the April 1884 issue of The Christian Science Journal


We would most respectfully submit a few propositions to our dear friends, and as we would consider the whole world our friends, therefore what we say is submitted to everybody.

It is a generally admitted fact that mind or spirit controls the external portion of the human organism, as the hands, arms, legs, feet, etc. That in ratio as we (i.e.—mind,) understand that power and use it, so we acquire a control of the various members of the body. There seems hardly a limit to that control.

The athlete, through that knowledge, acquires a wonderful strength and agility —the right arm of the blacksmith becomes more and more strengthened,—the fingers of the artizan becomes skillful as mind employs them, and recognizes its power.

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