Agassiz has wisely said: —
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say it had been discovered before. Lastly, they say they always believed it.
Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy, which indicates the rightness of all divine action. The inferior art returns to its wallowing in the mire, taking to itself sevenfold more sins; and “the last state is worse than the first.”
Disregarding the laws of God, trampling on the stern moral rules of Christian Science, and perverting the best method, error brings forth fruits of error.
The chief difficulty in the way of arming the age against mental malpractice, is the popular ignorance of the power of Mind, and of the secret devices and methods of sin, for working out the ends of evil.
The physician would be condemned for adulterating his drugs or giving deadly doses of poison. Remember — the medicine of Christian Science is Divine Mind; and dishonesty, sensuality, falsehood, revenge, malice, are not the mental qualities that heal the sick. The magnetizer employs one belief to destroy another. If he heals sickness through a belief, and a belief originally caused the sickness, it is a case of the greater error overcoming the lesser. This greater error thereafter occupies the ground, leaving the case worse than it was before being grasped by the power of the stronger error.
The animal magnetizer heals his patients through human, headlong will, not through Truth. Is the patient
