Sin

sickne and death are abnormal conditions of mortal mind and have no existence outside of carnal os Disease is a belief, not a reality. When man fully awakes to the fact that bodily ills and mortality are the results of fear, ignorance and sin, he will be in a position to deal with and master disease on a true scientific basis. Christian Science is thus not only a system of faith, but a method of healing; disease being in its teaching not an actual fact, but a distorted belief, while the cure begins with discarding a belief in the reality of disease. In attestation of its teachings, it points to cures of so-called incurable diseases, such as cancer, consumption, locomotor ataxia, etc., without the aid of material remedies, but through strictly metaphysical methods, Mrs. Eddy says in her book, “ Retrospection in Introspection,” page 41: *T claim for healing scientifically the following advantages: 1. It does away with all material medicines and recognizes the antidote for all sickne , as well as sin, in the immortal mind; and mortal mind as the source of all the ills that befall mortals. 2. It is more effectual than drugs, and cures when they fail or only relieve, thus proving the superiority of metaphysics over physics. 3. A person healed by Christian Science is not only healed of his disease, but is advanced morally and spiritually. The mortal body being but the objective state of the mortal mind, this mind must be renovated to improve the body.” The services are uniform, consisting of meetings on Sun days and on Wednesday evenings. No sermons are preached by a personal pastor, but a sermon made up of selections from the Bible and “Science and Health, with a Key to the Scriptures,” written by Mrs. Eddy, is read by two readers, called the first and second readers, generally a man and a woman. At the Wednesday evening meetings testimonies of healing and remarks on Christian Science are given by the members of the congregation.. The absence of creed and dogma in the Christian Science Church, its freedom from materialism, mysticism, and superstition, also the simplicity, uniformity, and impersonality of its form of worship and organization, are among the distinguishing features which characterize this modern religious movement.