SCIENCE AND HEALTH.
CHAPTER I.
PHYSIOLOGY.
Here in the body pent,
Absent from Thee I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home. — Montgomery.
IN the year 1868 I discovered metaphysical healing,
and named it Christian Science. The Principle
thereof is divine and apodictical, governing all; and it
reveals the grand verity that one erring mind controlling
another (through whatever medium) is not Science
governed by God, the unerring Mind. When apparently
near the confines of mortal existence, standing already
within the shadow of the death-valley, I learned certain
truths: that all real being is the divine Mind and idea;
that the Science of Divine Mind demonstrates that Life,
Truth, and Love are all-powerful and ever-present; that
the opposite of Science and Truth, named Error, is the
false supposition of a false sense. This sense is, and
evolves, a belief in matter that shuts out the true sense
of Spirit. The great facts of omnipotence and
omnipresence, of Spirit possessing all power and filling all
space, — these facts contradicted forever, to my
understanding, the notion that matter can be actual. These
facts also revealed to me primeval existence, and the
