The jury of Spiritual Senses agreed at once upon a verdict; and there resounded throughout the vast audience-chamber of Soul the cry, Not Guilty.
Then the prisoner rose up strong, free, and glorious. We noticed, as he shook hands with his counsel, Science, that all sallowness and debility had disappeared. His form was erect and commanding, his countenance beaming with health and happiness. Supremacy had taken place of fear. Mortal Man, no longer sick and in prison, walked forth, his “feet beautiful upon the mountains,” as of one who bringeth glad tidings.
The above allegory illustrates the effect of mortal
belief. It is designed to show how the testimony of
personal sense, and the plea of error, would condemn man,
while the plea of Science converts the sentence into the
triumph of Truth.
The moral and spiritual facts of health, whispered into thought, produce very direct and marked effects on the body. A physical diagnosis of disease — when mortal mind must be its cause, if it exists — has a tendency to induce disease.
It has been said to me: “The world is benefited by you, but it feels your influence without seeing you. Why do you not make yourself more widely known?”
Did my friends know how little time I have in which to make myself known, except through my publications and Christian work, — how much time and toil are required to establish the stately operations of Christian Science, — they would understand why 1 can be seen so seldom.
In founding this system of ethics and medicine I have labored for Principle, not for personality; although
