Elinor came home from school one day manifesting a little belief of irritability. "Oh! the beliefs of old mortal mind!" she exclaimed. "Indeed they are exaspelating!" (exasperating.) "Why! what's the matter, my little girl?" asked her mamma soothingly. "Why mamma, because Johnnie Dwyer has a belief of the mumps, teacher says we will all have 'em! I got up and said, 'Well! I won't have the mumps!' and she looked up surprised; then I said, 'God don't give the mumps and I won't have anything He don't give me! besides I don't believe in them!' I couldn't help it, mamma, really I couldn't! I just branded that lie right where it pretended to be!" It is needless to say that Johnnie Dwyer returned to school next day saying that it was a false alarm and he hadn't the mumps at all.
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From the January 1890 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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