Preface

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   1        Many imagine that the phenomena of physical heal-
      ing in Christian Science present only a phase of the
   3 action of the human mind, which action in some unex-
      plained way results in the cure of disease. On the con-
      trary, Christian Science rationally explains that all
   6 other pathological methods are the fruits of human
      faith in matter,--faith in the workings, not of Spirit,
      but of the fleshly mind which must yield to Science.
   9        The physical healing of Christian Science results
      now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine
      Principle, before which sin and disease lose their real-
  12 ity in human consciousness and disappear as naturally
      and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and
      sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works
  15 are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are
      the sign of Immanuel, or "God with us,"--a divine
      influence ever present in human consciousness and re-
  18 peating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
 
            To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense],
            And recovering of sight to the blind,

  21       To set at liberty them that are bruised.

             When God called the author to proclaim His Gospel
      to this age, there came also the charge to plant and
  24 water His vineyard.
             The first school of Christian Science Mind-healing
      was started by the author with only one student in
  27 Lynn, Massachusetts, about the year 1867. In 1881,
      she opened the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in
      Boston, under the seal of the Commonwealth, a law
  30 relative to colleges having been passed, which enabled
      her to get this institution chartered for medical pur-

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