magnetism. I need not add that tobacco and intoxicating drinks are not in line with Christian Science.
A Christian Scientist requires “Science and Health” for his text-book, and so do all his students and patients. Why? First: Because it is the standard work, the first ever published on Christian Science, or the Science of Healing through Mind; though other works have borrowed from this book without giving it credit, and adulterated the Science. Second: Because “Science and Health” will do more for teacher and student, for healer and patient, than can possibly be accomplished without it.
If the reader of this book observes a great stir throughout the whole system, and the moral and physical symptoms seem aggravated, these indications are favorable. Continue to read, and the book will become the physician, allaying the tremor that Truth often brings to error when destroying it. It is no more scientific to see disease than it is to experience it. If you would destroy the sense of disease, you should not build it up by wishing yourself to see the form it assumes, nor by prescribing a single application for its relief.
Mental quackery rests on the same platform with all other quackery. The chief plank in this platform is, that Science has two principles in partnership, one good, the other bad; and that these two may be simultaneously at work on the sick. This theory is supposed to enable quacks to practise from both a mental and material standpoint. Another plank in the platform is this, that error will finally have the same effect as Truth.
Some people, mistaught as to Mental Science, inquire of my students when it will be safe to check a fever.
