both beliefs vanished. This was a case of absent treatment. I could give you other cases, but I think I have said enough to prove that Science and Health is not hard to understand, for my work has all been done without my ever attending class.
A lady, with no other instructor than “Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures,” has demonstrated
beyond many who have taken numerous lessons.
Persuaded, through her reading, of the allness of God, —
and the perfectness of idea, — she would know nothing
else. A daughter, so badly affected by poison oak (ivy)
that for weeks death was feared from blood-poisoning,
had recovered with a terrible dread of that plant. As
the next season's picnic time drew near, she was regretting
that she dared not go again. The mother, with her
new-born faith in the Science of being, said, “Certainly
you can go, for nothing can harm you.” Assured by
these words, the daughter went, and in her rambles fell
into a mass of the dreaded plant; but trusting to the
word of Truth, she thought nothing of it till one who
knew of her previous trouble said, in her mother's
presence, “See, her face is showing red already.” But the
mother was prompt in denial and assurance. Next morning,
old symptoms were out in force, but they yielded
at once and finally to the positive and uncompromising
hold on Truth. Another daughter, that was thought
too delicate to raise, from bronchial and nervous troubles,
always dosed with medicine and wrapped in flannels,
now runs free and well without either of these, winter
