finds only effects, where the ordinary physician looks for causes. The real jurisdiction of the world is in Mind, controlling every effect, and recognizing all causation as vested in Mind.
A felon, on whom certain English students experimented, fancied himself bleeding to death, and died The college experiment. through that belief, when there was only a stream of warm water trickling over his arm. Had he known this was but a belief, he would have risen above it. Let the despairing invalid, inspecting the hue of her blood on a cambric handkerchief, think of the experiment of those Oxford boys, who caused the death of a man, when not a drop of his blood had been shed. Then let her learn the opposite Principle of Life, as taught in Christian Science, and she will understand that she is not dying on account of the state of her blood, but suffering from her belief that blood is destroying her life. The so-called vital current does not affect the invalid's health, but her belief produces the very results she dreads.
Fevers are forms of various types. The quickened pulse, coated tongue, febrile heat, dry skin, pain in the Fevers. head and limbs, are pictures depicted by mortal mind on the body. The images, held in this disturbed mind, frighten conscious thought. The fever-picture drawn by millions of mortals, and imaged on the body through the belief that mind is in matter and discord is as real as harmony, may rest at length on some receptive thought, unless destroyed through Science, and become a fever case, which ends in a belief called death, to be finally conquered by Life. Truth is always the victor. Sickness and sin fall by their own weight. Truth
