thought, this alone would usher in the millennium. Bathing and rubbing, to alter the secretions, or remove Hygiene. unhealthy exhalations from the cuticle, receive a useful rebuke from Christian healing. We must beware of making clean merely the outside of the platter.
He who is ignorant of what is termed hygienic law, is more receptive of spiritual power, and faith in one God, Blissful ignorance. than the devotee of this supposed law, who comes to teach him. Must we not then call the so-called law of matter a canon “more honored in the breach than the observance”? A patient thoroughly booked in medical theories is more difficult to heal through Mind than one who is not. This verifies the saying of our Master: “Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.”
One whom I rescued from seeming spiritual oblivion, in which the senses had engulfed him, writes to me:
I should have died, but for the glorious Principle you teach, — supporting the power of Mind over the body, and showing me the nothingness of the so-called pleasures and pains of sense. The treatises I had read and the medicines I had taken only abandoned me to more hopeless suffering and despair. Adherence to hygiene was useless. Mortal mind needed to be set right. The ailment was not bodily, but mental, and I was cured when I learned my way in Christian Science.
We need a clean body and a clean mind, — a body Grooming. rendered pure by Mind, not by matter. One says: “I take good care of my body.” No doubt he attends to it with as much care as he would to
