Preface
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the treatment of disease as well as of sin, her system has
been fully tested and has not been found wanting;
but
3 to reach the heights of Christian
Science, man must live
in obedience to its divine Principle.
To develop the full
might of this Science, the discords of corporeal
sense
6 must yield to the harmony
of spiritual sense, even as the
science of music corrects false tones and gives
sweet con-
cord to sound.
9 Theology
and physics teach that both Spirit
and
matter are real and good, whereas the fact is
that
Spirit
is good and real, and matter is Spirit's
oppo-
12 site. The question, What is Truth,
is answered by
demonstration,--by healing both disease and
sin; and
this demonstration shows that Christian healing
con-
15 fers the most health and makes the
best men. On this
basis Christian
Science will have a fair fight. Sickness
has been combated for centuries by doctors using
ma-
18 terial remedies; but the question
arises, Is there less
sickness because of these practitioners? A vigorous
"No" is the response deducible from
two connate
21 facts,--the reputed
longevity of the Antediluvians,
and the rapid multiplication and increased violence
of
diseases since the flood.
24 In
the author's work, RETROSPECTION
AND INTROSPEC-
TION,
may be found a biographical sketch, narrating
experiences which led her, in the year 1866,
to the dis-
27 covery of the system that she denominated
Christian
Science.
As early as 1862 she began to write down and
give to friends the results of her Scriptural
study, for
30 the Bible was her sole
teacher; but these compositions
were crude,--the first steps of a child in the
newly dis-
covered world of Spirit.
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