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Because matter has no Ego, its conditions are unreal, and these conditions are the source of all sickness. To believe in the existence of matter is to admit that mortality (and therefore disease) has a foundation in fact.

In the Kennebec Journal, published in the capital of Maine appears the following paragraph: Augusta evinces a general and hearty interest in the new method of healing known as Christian Science, now so approved and utilized in other cities. With the failure of drugs to relieve but temporarily, and the increasing number of diseases which are not reached at all by medicine, it is not surprising that suffering humanity welcomes a system which dishonors alcohol, poisonous narcotics, and stimulants, while it honors God.

Anecdotes are numerous, proving the power of imagination in healing. Some of them are referred to in Science and Health.

There is one bad intent, but it finds many channels. The arguments of evil-disposed mortal mind are numerous as they are subtle.

The efforts made by the originators of the so-called recent Mental Science Convention, held in Boston, were the very opposite of praiseworthy. Their dishonesty is now patent to many.

Two children sat on the edge of the shore, near the public road. Their feet dangled over the water; but they were not afraid, for they had been used to the water all their days.

A M aine man, while chopping wood, cut a big gash in his boot. Thinking he had cut a gash in his foot also, he sat down and shouted for help.

The following anecdote, reprinted from the Philadelphia News, illustrates a not uncommon set of diseases. People fancy they have ailments which they have not; and when the imagination is cured, the patient is well.

Truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Jeremiah vii.

And he opened his mouth and taught them. — Matthew v.