DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. G. A. KRATZER 
 
 Lecturer, Teacher and Practitioner of Christian Science, Author 
 
 of "Spiritual Man," "What is Truth?" "The Cause and 
 
 Cure of War," "Revelation Interpreted," 
 
 "The Universal Gospel," etc. 
 
 Twelfth Edition 
 
 Published and for sale by 
 
 G. A. Kratzer 
 
 The Pantheon Building, 
 4624 Sheridan Road, Chicago, 111.
 
 COPYRIGHT, 1913 
 
 BY 
 EEV. G. A. KBATZER. 
 
 ROBERT O. LAW CO. 
 PRINTERS & BINDERS 
 CHICAGO, U. S. A.
 
 TO 
 MY FAITHFUL WIFE 
 
 TO WHOM, UNDEE GOD, I WAS INDEBTED 
 FOR HEALING THKOUGH CHRISTIAN 
 SCIENCE TREATMENT FROM APPARENTLY 
 INCURABLE DISEASE, AND THROUGH 
 WHOM I RECEIVED MUCH OF MY EDUCA- 
 TION IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, THIS BOOK 
 IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED. 
 
 THE AUTHOR, 
 
 2052034
 
 MRS. EDDY'S DEFINITION 
 
 of 
 "Authorized Literature" 
 
 The following is quoted from Article VIII, Section 11, 
 of the "Church Manual of the First Church of Christ, 
 Scientist, in Boston, Mass.": 
 
 "A member of this Church shall neither buy, sell, nor 
 circulate Christian Science literature which is not cor- 
 rect in its statement of the divine Principle and rules 
 and the demonstration of Christian Science. Also the 
 spirit in which the writer has written his literature shall 
 be definitely considered. His writings must show strict 
 adherence to the Golden Rule, or his literature shall not 
 be adjudged Christian Science." Written by Mrs. Eddy. 
 
 Each person has a right to judge for himself as to 
 whether any book, pamphlet or article measures up to 
 this test.
 
 PREFACE 
 
 In 1907, the author wrote an article for a 
 distant patient, and entitled it "Dominion 
 Within." This article was published in the 
 Christian Science Sentinel of February 29th, 
 1908. Two days thereafter, the author received 
 from Rev. Mary Baker Eddy an autograph 
 letter, now in his possession, the first sentence 
 of which is : "Your article, 'Dominion Within,* 
 is superb" ; and this article met with wide com- 
 mendation from the field of Christian Science 
 students and workers. It is reproduced as the 
 first article of this book, it having been long 
 out of print. 
 
 Since the article appeared, the author has 
 had five years of additional experience in the 
 practice of Christian Science and in developing 
 his understanding of God, as manifest in the 
 human consciousness, along lines similar to 
 those touched upon in "Dominion Within"; 
 and all of the articles in this book deal with 
 the application of Christian Science to human 
 
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 8 PREFACE 
 
 needs. They are offered to the public in the 
 hope that they may be found useful by those 
 who are struggling to gain that practical 
 knowledge of God which will enable them to 
 gain the victory over sin, disease, and other 
 forms of human ill. 
 
 In this book, a very few lines of thought and 
 practice are treated and illustrated in a large 
 variety of ways. If there be a noticeable 
 sameness in the points dwelt upon in various 
 articles, let it be remembered that the purpose 
 of the book is not to furnish entertainment to 
 the casual reader, but to help the earnest stu- 
 dent of Christian Science work out the most 
 serious life problems which confront him. 
 Every article is true to the leading thought 
 indicated by the title of the book, that 
 Dominion is within.
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Dominion Within 11 
 
 Getting Rich 15 
 
 Divine Love Meets All Needs 27 
 
 The Law of Right Feeling 32 
 
 The Consciousness That Heals 43 
 
 Prayer 50 
 
 From Sickness to Health 64 
 
 Working in Truth 77 
 
 Hindrances to Healing 84 
 
 Trusting God 98 
 
 Rejoicing in Tribulation 104 
 
 The Righteousness Which is by Faith 117 
 
 Dealing with Malpractice 128 
 
 God-Consciousness versus Sub-Consciousness. . . 136 
 
 God the Rewarder 147 
 
 The Marriage of Truth and Love 154 
 
 Let Your Conversation be in Heaven 156 
 
 Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear 163 
 
 Working Out Our Problem 167 
 
 The Urge of God 177 
 
 Work for the Patient. . . : 182 
 
 Self -Surrender through Love 189 
 
 Making the Port 204 
 
 Is God Our Father-Mother? 206 
 
 The Lame Walk . .210
 
 TEXTS FOR THE BOOK 
 
 "Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall 
 he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned 
 from the milk. For precept must be upon precept, 
 precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line." 
 Isa. 28:9, 10. 
 
 "Let the word have free course and be glorified. The 
 people clamor to leave cradle and swaddling clothes. 
 Truth cannot be stereotyped; it unfoldeth forever." 
 Mary Baker Eddy, in "No and Yes," page 45. 
 
 "A few books, which are based on this book [Science 
 and Health], are useful." Mrs. Eddy, in "Science and 
 Health/' Preface, page x. 
 
 "By loyalty in students, I mean this: Allegiance to 
 God, subordination of the human to the divine, steadfast 
 justice, and strict adherance to divine Truth and Love." 
 Mrs. Eddy, in "Retrospection and Introspection," 
 page 50. 
 
 "Everyone should build on his own foundation, subject 
 to the one builder and maker, God." Ibid, page 48. 
 
 "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit 
 saith unto the churches. To him that overcometh will 
 I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of 
 the paradise of God." Rev. 2 : 7.
 
 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that 
 taketh a city. Adapted from Prov. 16:32. 
 
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that God is in- 
 finite Person, infinite individuality ; that He is 
 the unbounded consciousness. (See Science 
 and Health, p. 330. ) It is well for us to spend 
 a portion of our time in trying to rise into some 
 sense of that unbounded consciousness, that 
 sense of freedom from limitation whereby we 
 may endeavor to know God in His wholeness ; 
 but the endeavor to become conscious of God 
 in His infinity is usually not the best means 
 of realizing those present and particular mani- 
 festations of Him which we need to realize in 
 order to meet certain problems that confront 
 us. 
 
 God is ever-present good; and He is mani- 
 fested in the specific good as well as in general 
 good. Often what we need to realize are those 
 specific manifestations of good which in our 
 limited state of belief we are more readily able 
 
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 12 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 to comprehend. For example, if we seem to be 
 threatened with a lack of money to meet our 
 needs, or with lack of supply of any kind, or 
 with disaster in business, and the thought of 
 this is troubling us, we should stand still where 
 we are, or retire to our closet, and "have it out" 
 with the one evil then and there, or just as soon 
 as possible, by knowing and declaring that the 
 ever-present law of God, good, the ever-pres- 
 ent fact for the children of God, is plentiful 
 supply. 
 
 The truth is, that as plenty is man's birth- 
 right, plenty is the present fact for those who 
 accept the truth ; and error, false sense, cannot 
 make us believe to the contrary. If we realize 
 this fact long enough and clearly enough, so 
 that it becomes vital to us, we shall have en- 
 tered into peace and joy, and error will no 
 longer argue fear to us. If, even by a single 
 moment's realization of the truth, we have per- 
 manently healed our consciousness, cast out 
 fear, and brought in the abiding sense of se- 
 curity and joy, our outward affairs will take 
 care of themselves in due season. We do not 
 need, beyond ordinary prudence and common 
 sense, to trouble ourselves about the external
 
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 arrangement or disposition of material things, 
 or to be anxious about negotiations with our 
 fellow-men. Our one problem is to maintain 
 a whole consciousness, devoid of fear, resting 
 in God as the abundant and infallible source 
 of supply; then the outward things will be 
 added unto us. 
 
 Christian Science also teaches us to know 
 that health, strength, sight, and hearing, or any 
 other special manifestation of God, good, from 
 which we may seem to be cut off, are present 
 and unchangeable facts of our true selfhood, 
 and that error cannot make us believe to the 
 contrary or make us fear the further seeming 
 loss of any of these manifestations of good. If 
 we heal our own consciousness, so that we have 
 no further sense of fear, but are able to rest 
 with a sense of security and joy in the fact 
 that the special manifestation of good which 
 we desire is a present and indestructible fact, 
 that is all we need to be concerned about. The 
 physical manifestation will duly take care of 
 itself, and harmony will be realized where be- 
 fore discord was apparent. It was never more 
 than an appearance ; for God, the sole creator, 
 never made any discord, but rather established
 
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 harmony as the eternal law and the eternal 
 fact; and so it is. At the creation "God said, 
 Let there be light; and there was light;" and 
 the light (the good) remains to this day, while 
 its opposite, darkness, in reality does not exist. 
 We should not be anxious for the morrow or 
 about any outward things, either supplies for 
 daily need or health of the body ; but we should 
 seek first the kingdom of God, which is "at 
 hand" and "within you," and His righteous- 
 ness (right thinking and feeling, knowledge 
 of the truth, and love devoid of fear) , and all 
 these outward things will be added unto us. 
 We should be willing to be "absent from the 
 body" in thought; we should not worry about 
 it, nor try to cure it by taking thought about 
 it. We should not try to control the body by 
 our thought ; we should try only to control our 
 consciousness by meditating on God and His 
 law. Thus we shall be "present with the Lord," 
 and the body will soon manifest harmony. 
 
 Whatever of health or wealth we gain apart 
 from conscious reliance upon God while we 
 are gaining them is worthless.
 
 GETTING RICH 
 
 At the beginning of our earthly experience, 
 as soon as we are old enough to enter into con- 
 scious life, we begin to seek after material 
 things. A child discovers that he gets satis- 
 faction from food, pets, clothing and toys. As 
 he grows older, he still seeks after material 
 things, but the nature of his wants and de- 
 mands gradually changes. However, in time 
 he discovers that he does not get as much satis- 
 faction out of these material goods as he 
 formerly did, even if he is able to gain most of 
 the things which he desires, which is seldom the 
 case. Nevertheless, there are unnumbered 
 thousands of people upon whom it never seems 
 to dawn that there is any other order of riches 
 to be sought for; and so, notwithstanding the 
 failure of material possessions and pursuits to 
 give desired satisfaction and happiness, great 
 numbers of people continue, from the cradle to 
 the grave, a mad race to gain them, and never 
 consciously enter into higher realms of life 
 
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 16 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 which are always at hand for them, if they only 
 knew how to enter in. 
 
 A careful analysis will be instructive. All 
 that the houses, public buildings, banks, and 
 stores filled with merchandise in any city can 
 even seem to confer upon the people of that 
 city are comfort and satisfaction. But comfort 
 and satisfaction are states of consciousness, 
 and not phenomena of matter. Were it not 
 for the presence of consciousness, all the ma- 
 terial things in a city would have no more 
 significance than a dust heap; for conscious- 
 ness alone can appreciate or set a value upon 
 them. A peck of diamonds is worth nothing 
 to a horse, and a peck of corn is worth nothing 
 to a stone. Accordingly, it is easy to see that 
 material riches have no value, except in so far 
 as they can be made the means of increasing 
 the riches of consciousness. Hence, it is appar- 
 rent that fundamental riches are desirable 
 states of consciousness, and that material goods 
 are riches only in a secondary sense. To real- 
 ize this, and govern our activities accordingly, 
 is great gain. "Set your affections on the 
 things which are above; not on things on the 
 earth."
 
 GETTING RICH 17 
 
 If the average man had a thousand dollars 
 in his possession, and knew that there was a 
 decided liability that burglars would try to 
 break into his house at night, he would take 
 great precautions to guard that treasure. He 
 would either place the money in the bank, or 
 else he would equip his doors and windows 
 with burglar alarms, and possibly arm himself, 
 prepared to fight, if necessary, to guard his 
 treasure. This he would do, because he con- 
 sciously set a distinct value upon the money. 
 But how many people are there who will guard 
 their mental treasure-house, their conscious- 
 ness, with equal care? How many people con- 
 sciously place such a value upon peace and 
 joy and love that they will guard against being 
 despoiled of them even more carefully than 
 they would guard against being despoiled of 
 material treasures ? If they had become awake 
 to the fact that these desirable states of con- 
 sciousness constitute fundamental riches, then 
 they would value them even more than they 
 value material goods, and would guard them 
 with corresponding care. But most people 
 hold peace, joy, and love at so small a valua- 
 tion that they will allow even a trifling circum-
 
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 stance to invade their consciousness and steal 
 away these treasures, leaving in place of them 
 anger, envy, jealousy, anxiety, grief, and 
 other afflictive mental states. 
 
 Some gossip comes along with a tale that a 
 friend has said some unkind or unjust thing. 
 Promptly, without even waiting to learn 
 whether the tale is true, the listener allows 
 peace, love and joy to be taken out of his con- 
 sciousness. The loss of property, the sickness 
 of a friend or relative, an insulting word, a 
 pain in the body, and a dozen other outward 
 occurrences are allowed to effect the same re- 
 sult. These things are often permitted to en- 
 ter our mental treasure-house and steal away 
 our jewels without protest or objection. This 
 is never the case, however, if we have learned 
 that desirable states of consciousness are the 
 true riches, and that they are more worth keep- 
 ing a secure hold upon than any amount of 
 material goods. Then we will be at great pains 
 not to allow outward occurrences to interfere 
 with our true, inner wealth, for we know that 
 it constitutes "the kingdom of heaven," and 
 makes us truly "rich toward God." 
 
 If a man had a large income, but was in the
 
 GETTING RICH 19 
 
 habit of depositing his money in a safe to which 
 thieves had ready access, and to which they 
 were in the habit of paying frequent visits, so 
 that, when the man went to the safe to get his 
 money, he could never be certain that there 
 was any there, no matter how much he had 
 deposited, such a man would scarcely be re- 
 garded wealthy, nor could his credit among 
 business men be very good. In order to be 
 counted wealthy and reliable in this world's 
 estimation, a man must have, not only the 
 ability to gain riches, but to safely care for 
 them, and maintain a firm and constant con- 
 trol of them. Likewise, a man is not rich in 
 the treasures of the kingdom of heaven, unless 
 he has demonstrated the ability to maintain a 
 firm and constant hold upon his spiritual 
 riches, no matter what thieves and robbers, in 
 the line of outward temptations, may strive to 
 take them away. Mere good impulses, and 
 good intentions now and then, no matter how 
 frequent or varied, do not make a man rich 
 toward God. It is the retention and utilization 
 of spiritual treasures, despite dangers, difficul- 
 ties and temptations, that demonstrates how 
 much treasure one has really laid up in heaven.
 
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 If a person is once thoroughly awakened to 
 the fundamental importance of spiritual riches, 
 so that he has had the experience, for a time, of 
 keeping them safe and available in his con- 
 sciousness, he soon learns that, for his own 
 happiness, he cannot afford to let peace, joy 
 and love escape him, whatever the temptation 
 to distraction of thought. Nevertheless, at 
 this stage of his development, he has only just 
 begun to "enter into life." He has only 
 learned to appreciate peace, joy and love in a 
 negative way; he has only discovered that he 
 cannot get on very well without them. He 
 does not take much conscious notice of them 
 when he has them; but only begins to think 
 about them when he perceives that there is 
 danger, that he may lose them. There is yet 
 more for him to learn, which is of vast im- 
 portance. 
 
 There comes a time in the aspiring man's 
 development when he begins to set a positive 
 value upon desirable states of consciousness, 
 when he begins to cultivate love in his con- 
 sciousness, to watch its increase, and to ex- 
 perience joy in the accumulation, even more 
 than the successful worldling enjoys the en-
 
 GETTING RICH 21 
 
 largement of his material possessions. He be- 
 gins to discover new methods of increasing and 
 using his store of love. He finds, for instance, 
 that in doing a kindly and considerate deed for 
 another, his own possession of peace, joy, love, 
 and other mental riches, is increased, and, with 
 his awakened sense, he becomes considerate for 
 this increase far more than for a return in kind 
 at the hands of the one to whom he had done 
 a kindness, far more than for any material 
 good he might receive. He has reached a point 
 in his development where, in doing good deeds, 
 he can realize that "his reward is with him," 
 because the very doing of the good deed auto- 
 matically brings him an increase of the wealth 
 which he has learned to value more than all 
 other goods. He has come to understand and 
 appreciate Jesus' words when he said: "Do 
 good, and lend, hoping for nothing again ; and 
 your reward shall be great, and ye shall be 
 called the children of the Highest." 
 
 If one who had no musical education were to 
 attend a series of symphony concerts, they 
 might not mean much to him at the start. They 
 would bring him little satisfaction, even if they 
 did not prove tiresome. But, as he continued
 
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 to attend, he would gradually begin to appre- 
 ciate the music, until after a time, he would 
 find himself experiencing a positive and lively 
 sense of pleasure and benefit. This change in 
 his experience would not be because there had 
 been any essential change in the character of 
 the concerts, but it would come solely as the 
 result of growth in his power of appreciation, 
 of being able to set a value, in terms of con- 
 sciousness, upon the music. Likewise, a per- 
 son may reach a stage of development where 
 much of peace and love and righteousness are 
 within the range of his experience, and still 
 get little positive joy from them; but if he be- 
 gins to turn his attention to them, and to the 
 experiences which increase his store of them, 
 then he begins more and more to appreciate 
 them, and as this comes to pass, his store of 
 mental riches is ever increasing. Then, instead 
 of being merely negatively peaceful and 
 happy, it comes to pass that he finds in the 
 course of his experience continual occasions for 
 positive exhilaration and joy; and, although he 
 knows that joy is the birthright of the children 
 of God, he no longer takes these experiences
 
 GETTING RICH 23 
 
 of consciousness as "matters of course," but 
 lives in wonderland, and constantly marvels at 
 the goodness of God, who has conferred upon 
 him the ability to possess, appreciate and en- 
 joy such riches. 
 
 This thought, that we should become dis- 
 tinctly conscious of our mental states, and 
 that we should watch the growth of our mental 
 treasures, runs contrary to much that has been 
 written. There are many who hold, that as 
 soon as a person begins to take account of his 
 mental conditions, as soon as he begins to 
 reckon his growth in love and in other spiritual 
 virtues, he becomes self-conscious in an unde- 
 sirable sense. But to consciously grow in the 
 exercise and possession of divine love is not to 
 become self-conscious, but God-conscious, since 
 to dwell in love and appreciate love, the reflec- 
 tion of God, is to consciously dwell in God and 
 appreciate Him, which is the prime duty of 
 man. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures 
 on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, 
 and where thieves break through and steal, but 
 lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven (in 
 harmonious consciousness), where moth and
 
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 rust do not corrupt and where thieves do not 
 break through and steal; for where your 
 treasure is, there will your heart be also." 
 
 It is true that a person might analyze his 
 mental states, and take account of his growth 
 in certain virtues, in such a way as to become 
 self-righteous; but this is in no sense a neces- 
 sary outcome of our learning to appreciate 
 spiritual treasures, and to purposely take 
 means of enlarging our possession of them and 
 our joy in them. Once started along this road, 
 there is infinite opportunity of growth and en- 
 largement for every individual. The experi- 
 ences of peace, joy, liberty and love, to which 
 we all may and shall attain, cannot be meas- 
 ured, for they are infinite. 
 
 Before the individual has made any great 
 degree of progress in "getting rich" along 
 these lines, he begins to discover, more and 
 more, that, except in a very secondary sense, 
 neither the possession of material goods, nor 
 the right use of them, is the source of desirable 
 states of consciousness, but that we can gain 
 a large experience of these mental treasures, 
 and a firm hold upon them, only in proportion 
 as we acquaint ourselves with God, and derive
 
 GETTING RICH 25 
 
 them directly from Him, knowing that He is 
 the only source of unmixed good, and that even 
 the good which we seem to get from and 
 through matter is from Him, though much 
 adulterated or distorted by the material 
 medium. We experience good in connection 
 with materiality, not because of it, but in spite 
 of it. Love, joy, and peace are not properties 
 of matter, and they are not found in material 
 pursuits. They are everlasting, changeless 
 manifestations of God, which are ever at hand, 
 and which may be gained and possessed with- 
 out limit by any individual who becomes awake 
 to their presence, and who is willing to work 
 for them faithfully, intelligently and in right 
 ways. 
 
 The worker along these lines also soon dis- 
 covers that, while consciously seeking these 
 mental treasures, and centering his attention 
 primarily upon gaining them, such outward or 
 material goods as he needs for harmonious 
 living while he is still forced to dwell in part 
 in material sense come his way without a large 
 amount of conscious effort on his part. He 
 finds the words of Christ to be literally true, 
 "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His
 
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 righteousness, and all these things shall be 
 added unto you." It is true, that in our pres- 
 ent stage of experience, we cannot have large 
 conscious possession of peace, joy and love 
 without experiencing an increase of health and 
 strength of body, as well as of material goods ; 
 and it is true, that if we strive most of all to 
 make ourselves "rich toward God," we shall 
 soon find ourselves not lacking either in 
 strength, health, or worldly possessions accord- 
 ing to our needs. 
 
 A BALANCED man is one who can center his 
 thought at will, be it in the solitude of the 
 mountain fastness or facing peril in the jungle ; 
 in the hurly-burly of affairs, as well as in the 
 quiet of his favorite den. This is the realiza- 
 tion of God-ever-present, and it is the secret 
 of all true achievement. A really poised man 
 is a miracle, humanly speaking; it is he who 
 has found the secret source of all power, solved 
 his problem, and entered upon the life that is 
 boundless and eternal. H. F. Porter.
 
 DIVINE LOVE MEETS ALL NEEDS 
 
 "Divine Love always has met and always 
 will meet every human need." The literal 
 truth of this sentence from page 494 of Science 
 and Health, by Mrs. Eddy, has been ques- 
 tioned by many. They have said, "Countless 
 thousands of men have suffered and died from 
 lack of food, drink, raiment, shelter, health and 
 strength. Then how can it be said that divine 
 Love has met their need?" 
 
 In the first place, it is readily perceived, on 
 statement, that to meet a need is not to relieve 
 the need, unless the supply provided is appro- 
 priated by the person who is in need. As we 
 shall see presently, God does meet us with the 
 supply for our every need, and that supply is 
 always at hand, and always has been at hand 
 for mankind in all ages ; but God has provided 
 that we must consciously appropriate this sup- 
 ply, and by the method which He has ordained. 
 The need of every man has always been met 
 with that which he needed ; and if his necessity 
 
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 28 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 was not relieved, it was because he did not 
 understand, or neglected to practice, the pre- 
 scribed method of appropriation. 
 
 In absolute and final reality, and in present 
 reality, food, drink, raiment, shelter, health, 
 strength and life are purely spiritual, as the 
 Scripture clearly states. "Man shall not live 
 by bread alone, but by every word that pro- 
 ceedeth out of the mouth of God." "Except 
 ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink 
 his blood, ye have no life in you." "Because 
 thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with 
 goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest 
 not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and 
 poor, and blind, and naked; I counsel thee to 
 buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou 
 mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou 
 mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy 
 nakedness do not appear." "I will dwell in 
 the house of the Lord forever." "I shall yet 
 praise him, who is the health of my counte- 
 nance, and my God." "This is life eternal, 
 that they might know thee, the only true God, 
 and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." 
 
 Perceiving that the real and true supply for 
 our needs is spiritual, we can at once under-
 
 LOVE MEETS ALL NEEDS 29 
 
 stand that God all the time meets every man's 
 need with His Spirit, which is substance, 
 strength, harmony, life, and an everlasting 
 dwelling place. "In Him, we live and move 
 and have our being." Whoever appropriates 
 this spiritual supply gains the kingdom of 
 heaven. 
 
 But what about men's need for material 
 food, drink, and raiment? Are not these 
 human needs? Has God always met these 
 needs? Yes, He has always met even these 
 needs, although He has not forced the appro- 
 priation of the supply upon those who would 
 not seek to gain it in the proper manner. These 
 needs are not real, but only apparent; still, 
 they are very imperative from humanity's 
 present standpoint; and Christ Jesus has 
 pointed out in clear and unmistakable lan- 
 guage the right method of appropriating the 
 supply. "Be not anxious, saying, What shall 
 we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Where- 
 withal shall we be clothed ? For your heavenly 
 Father knoweth that ye have need of all these 
 things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, 
 and His righteousness; and all these things 
 shall be added unto you." In other words,
 
 30 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 whoever sufficiently appropriates the real, 
 spiritual food, drink, raiment, shelter, strength, 
 health, and life, will infallibly have a sufficient 
 supply of the material counterparts of these 
 spiritual realities "added unto" him, as long- 
 as he has need of any material supply. 
 
 The greatest human need, even here and 
 now, is more Spirit, rather than more matter. 
 The trouble with most men is, that, relatively, 
 they have too much matter in proportion to 
 their present vital possession of Spirit. If 
 any man lacks material supply, it is a sure sign 
 that he has not sufficient hold on Spirit, though 
 the converse proposition is not true, that an 
 abundant material supply is necessarily a sign 
 that the owner is "rich toward God." But if 
 any man lacks material supply, his first effort 
 should be, not to gain more matter, but more 
 of Spirit. If he does so, his need will not only 
 be "met," as it always was and always will be, 
 far more than half way, but his need will be 
 filled. "Blessed are they which hunger and 
 thirst after righteousness (right- wise-ness) ; 
 for they shall be filled," not only with the king- 
 dom of God, but even with the supply of their 
 material needs.
 
 LOVE MEETS ALL NEEDS 31 
 
 So it is true that, "divine Love always has 
 met and always will meet every human need ;" 
 and men will always find their need, not only 
 "met," but abundantly satisfied, if they will 
 "seek first the kingdom of God and his right- 
 eousness." 
 
 DOES GOD KNOW EVIL? 
 
 "The Lord knoweth the way of the right- 
 eous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish." 
 The way of the righteous is real and eternal, 
 because God knows it. By inference and con- 
 trast the way of the ungodly shall perish be- 
 cause God does not know it. If God did 
 know it, it could not perish, since anything in 
 divine Mind cannot be lost therefrom, and so 
 whatever is known to God exists eternally. 
 "God is light, and in Him is no darkness at 
 all." That is, infinite Mind is all good, and 
 there is in it, therefore, no thought or knowl- 
 edge of evil at all. God is "of purer eyes than 
 to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity."
 
 THE LAW OF RIGHT FEELING 
 
 "They should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel 
 after him, and find him." Acts 17:27. 
 
 "Science declares that Mind, not matter, sees, hears, 
 feels, speaks." Science and Health, page 485. 
 
 The writer has observed that many students 
 of Christian Science pay less attention to the 
 government of the mental feelings than to the 
 government of the thoughts ; and this, notwith- 
 standing that the satisfaction of daily living is 
 more directly a matter of the feelings than of 
 the thoughts, and that conditions of bodily 
 health are almost wholly determined for good 
 or ill by the right or wrong activity of the feel- 
 ings, though, of course, right understanding is 
 necessary to right feeling. Many mistaken 
 mental processes which are merely intellectual 
 do not, on our present plane of experience, ad- 
 versely affect the feelings, and so do not occa- 
 sion suffering, either mental or physical; but 
 wrong emotional processes constitute mental 
 suffering or unhappiness, and, if persisted in. 
 beget what is called physical disease. Right 
 activity of the feelings, activity in accord with 
 the nature of God, constitutes, in large meas- 
 
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 ure, the riches of the kingdom of heaven, which 
 are the only true riches. 
 
 Since God is the creator and governor of the 
 universe, and is all-powerful and omnipresent, 
 the various manifestations of God constitute 
 the law of the universe, the law of being, the 
 law of every man's mentality. Part of the 
 changeless manifestations of God consist in 
 love, joy, peace, and confidence in good; hence, 
 these manifestations constitute the law govern- 
 ing the feelings, and any manifestation of 
 human feeling at variance with these divine 
 manifestations is false emotional activity. 
 Fear, anxiety, worry, grief, doubt, anger, jeal- 
 ousy, envy, revenge, all are forms of false 
 emotion. 
 
 On reflection, it is easy to perceive, that 
 there is absolutely no connection between 
 opposites, no connection between falsehood 
 and truth, or between evil and good. Conse- 
 quently, there is absolutely no connection be- 
 tween love, joy, peace and confidence in good, 
 on the one hand, and fear, grief, anger, or 
 doubt, or anything that can seem to occasion 
 them, on the other. For instance, the loss of a 
 pocketbook containing money does not occuy
 
 34 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 in the changeless realm of God, or Truth; it 
 only occurs in the false, phenomenal realm of 
 error. Hence, there is absolutely no legitimate 
 connection between such a loss and joy and 
 peace, as states of mind. Joy and peace are 
 not properties or manifestations of a full 
 pocketbook; hence, they cannot possibly pro- 
 ceed from such a pocketbook. They are prop- 
 erties or manifestations of Spirit, God, and 
 proceed from Him alone. The argument or 
 seeming that there is a connection between a 
 pocketbook and the joy and peace of the mind 
 is one of the deceptions of false sense, satan. 
 The loss of a pocketbook would not tempt 
 one to break the law of numbers in his think- 
 ing; it would not tempt one, for instance, to 
 think that five times six are twenty-six. There 
 is no connection between the loss of a pocket- 
 book and one's thought about five times six; 
 and as one attains to the Mind that was in 
 Christ Jesus there can be no more connection 
 between the loss of a pocketbook and the state 
 of his feelings than there is between such loss 
 and his thought about five times six. Man's 
 feelings can act only in accord with their 
 Source and Principle, God, and they are not
 
 LAW OF RIGHT FEELING 35 
 
 affected by that which is not their Source or 
 Principle of being. 
 
 Yellowness, hardness, and opacity, are 
 changeless manifestations of gold. Wherever 
 gold is, there yellowness, hardness, and opacity 
 are always found. The loss of a pocketbook 
 could not in the slightest degree change the 
 color of gold, or cause yellowness to depart 
 from gold, either gold in the pocketbook or 
 anywhere else in the world, since the yellow- 
 ness depends not on what happens to the 
 pocketbook, but on the nature of gold. Like- 
 wise, the loss of a pocketbook cannot change 
 man's joy and peace in the slightest degree, or 
 cause them to depart from God, since they 
 depend solely on the nature of God; neither 
 can such loss cause joy and peace to depart in 
 the slightest degree from the mentality of a 
 human being, if that mentality is stayed on 
 God, and so is governed by the only law or 
 truth of being. 
 
 Likewise, unfair or insulting human con- 
 duct has absolutely no relation to the love, joy, 
 and peace, which St. Paul speaks of as "fruits 
 of the Spirit." These have neither their Source 
 nor their Principle in unjust or discordant
 
 36 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 human conduct; as before remarked, their 
 Source and Principle is God, and human 
 mentality must learn to consent to the govern- 
 ment of its feelings by God alone, and not by 
 human behavior, otherwise, its government 
 and its action are both false and afflictive. 
 
 All the misery of the human race is attribu- 
 table to the fact that the human mind allows 
 ignorance and false sense to enforce their 
 claim that a connection exists between true 
 feelings and material circumstance and human 
 behavior, whereas no such connection exists. 
 The only legitimate connection of feeling is 
 with God. This is the truth, a part of that 
 truth which Christ Jesus declared would make 
 those who know it free from the ills of life. 
 
 If we but learn to say to ourselves, many 
 times per day perchance, as occasion arises, 
 "No connection" (applying the phrase as a 
 reminder that there is no necessary or reason- 
 able relation) "exists between seeming mate- 
 rial loss, or unjust or unkind behavior on the 
 part of human beings, and the love, joy, and 
 peace which belong to us as children of God," 
 then we will be protecting ourselves from the 
 loss of the only riches which are real; we will
 
 LAW OF RIGHT FEELING 37 
 
 live more happily, healthfully and prosper- 
 ously even in a worldly sense, and more fully 
 obey the command: "Lay not up for your- 
 selves treasures on earth, where moth and rust 
 corrupt, and where thieves break through and 
 steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in 
 heaven (in daily spiritualized consciousness) 
 where moth and rust do not corrupt, and 
 where thieves do not break through and steal." 
 Doing this, we shall "seek first the kingdom of 
 God and His righteousness," and what we 
 need to eat, drink and wear will infallibly be 
 added unto us, notwithstanding any temporary 
 seeming to the contrary. This is the promise 
 of Christ, whose word cannot fail. 
 
 In fact, there is no legitimate connection 
 between the activity of love, joy, peace and 
 confidence in good, and weakness or pain of 
 the body; but this is sometimes a little more 
 difficult to demonstrate. What is called dis- 
 ease of the body is usually the result of one 
 having entertained some false feeling mas- 
 querading as a mental state; and, if what may 
 be termed the mental discord is first eliminated, 
 the bodily ill will usually soon vanish. On the 
 basis of the understanding and practice of the
 
 38 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 truth above set forth, it ought to be possible 
 quickly to eliminate from consciousness lust, 
 fear, worry, anxiety, grief, doubt, anger, jeal- 
 ousy, envy, revenge, and the like. These are 
 purely mental discords. In some cases it may 
 not be humanly possible to have a very full 
 sense of joy and peace while suffering from 
 weakness or pain, but if the mental discords 
 above mentioned are thoroughly eliminated, the 
 sense of weakness and pain will soon disappear. 
 Then there will be nothing to interfere with 
 a full realization of love, joy, peace and con- 
 fidence in good. 
 
 Suppose that a boy, who was just com- 
 mencing to study arithmetic, had an enemy, 
 older than himself, who pretended to be his 
 friend, and whom he believed to be his friend. 
 If this pseudo-friend could persuade the boy 
 that he ought to begin his study of arithmetic 
 with fractions, and that, if he did so, he would, 
 in this way, most readily learn addition, sub- 
 traction, multiplication, and division, he could 
 prevent the boy from gaining a knowledge of 
 arithmetic at all, or, at least, make it extremely 
 difficult for him to do so. Likewise, if satan, 
 mortal belief, can persuade us that we should
 
 LAW OF RIGHT FEELING 39 
 
 seek happiness, or harmonious consciousness, 
 by commencing with the attainment of mate- 
 rial prosperity, agreeable social recognition 
 and bodily health, and that, if we do so, we 
 shall, in this way, most readily attain joy, 
 peace, and a loving attitude of mind, he will 
 prevent us from attaining harmonious con- 
 sciousness altogether, or at least make it 
 exceedingly difficult for us to do so. In this 
 way, we should be as badly misled as the boy 
 would be, if he were persuaded to commence 
 the study of arithmetic with fractions. 
 
 As before intimated, pain, weakness, and 
 poverty are as unlike God, and so as untrue 
 and unreal, as are fear, doubt, worry, grief, 
 lust, jealousy, anger, and the like. But the 
 writer has discovered from experience, that if 
 he starts a patient working against pain, weak- 
 ness, or poverty, both the patient's effort and 
 his own work in behalf of the patient often fail 
 of quick results, as is often true in the experi- 
 ence of all practitioners ; and, as a consequence, 
 the patient gets discouraged. But, when the 
 patient is shown how to begin work for himself 
 by combating purely mental discords, in the 
 manner already indicated in this article, he
 
 40 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 finds himself winning victories from the start, 
 and he is greatly encouraged, and is much more 
 responsive to the practitioner's work. There 
 is great wisdom in giving a beginner some- 
 thing to do that he can be sure to accomplish 
 if he is diligent, rather than to set him a task 
 at which, as a beginner, he is quite likely to 
 fail. Since the writer definitely began to use 
 this method of procedure, he hks healed quite a 
 large number of patients who have had treat- 
 ment for considerable time by various prac- 
 titioners, and have been studying and working 
 for themselves, and all without much success. 
 The healing was accomplished by starting 
 them to work at demonstrating right feeling, 
 rather than at demonstrating health or out- 
 ward harmony. They had failed for so long 
 because they had never started right. Begin- 
 ning at the right point in their work, the health 
 and outward harmony were soon attained. 
 
 In the "Father-Mother God" (S. & H., 
 p. 16), Truth or Intelligence is the divine 
 Father, and Love is the divine Mother. "White- 
 robed purity will unite in one person masculine 
 wisdom and feminine love" (S. & H., p. 64). 
 As the child in the early stages of its human
 
 LAW OF RIGHT FEELING 41 
 
 life has, and needs to have, much more to do with 
 its mother than with its father, so the "babe in 
 Christ," the beginner in Christian Science, has 
 need to work even more in Love, through dem- 
 onstrating right feeling, than in Truth, through 
 demonstrating right thinking, though as he 
 attains spiritual manhood, he must come into 
 the full recognition and demonstration of both 
 Truth and Love. 
 
 Let one of our watchwords be, "No connec- 
 tion" between the good of the mind and dis- 
 cordant human or material circumstances. We 
 can always say to ourselves that God is a suf- 
 ficient reason for not fearing, not doubting, 
 not worrying, not grieving. 
 
 At our present stage of development we 
 cannot wholly, or even largely, withdraw our 
 thoughts from the consideration of discords and 
 difficulties, but, here and now, we can learn to 
 keep our feelings with God, harmony, all the 
 time. The oft quoted motto, "Let nothing dis- 
 turb the harmony of your thoughts," might be 
 revised to our profit, so that it shall read, "Let 
 nothing disturb the harmony of your feelings." 
 
 Having mediatorial intelligence, so that we 
 can not only know and declare Truth, but can
 
 42 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 also consider and uncover error and reverse it 
 in favor of the truth, and having divine love 
 with which to dissolve error, we are perfectly 
 equipped for the service of God on the human 
 plane, and for the true service of ourselves; 
 but if we allow the feelings to be engaged with 
 and ruled by discord, we can serve nothing but 
 satan. 
 
 We should not allow our feelings to be 
 governed by the evidence before the senses, 
 however much our thoughts must rest upon 
 outward circumstances while engaged in over- 
 coming human discords and difficulties. 
 
 "Jesus' life, outwardly, was one of the most 
 troubled lives that was ever lived. Tempest 
 and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves 
 breaking over it all the time. But the inner 
 life was a sea of glass. The great calm was 
 always there. At any moment you might have 
 gone to Him and found rest." Henry Drum- 
 mond. 
 
 We should, and can, attain this "sea of 
 glass" for ourselves. G. A. K.
 
 (Reprinted from C. S. Sentinel, Sept. 12, 
 1908.) 
 
 In Christian Science great emphasis is laid 
 upon the Scriptural statements that God is 
 Spirit; God is eternal; God is perfect, and 
 God is the only cause and creator. The crea- 
 tions of God would naturally and inevitably 
 hear His characteristics, and not characteris- 
 tics opposite to Him. Therefore, the real uni- 
 verse and man were created like to God, 
 spiritual, eternal, and perfect, and they so 
 remain, because God's all-power preserves 
 them as He made them. And God, Spirit, 
 knows or discerns His universe and His chil- 
 dren as they are ; that is, spiritual, eternal, and 
 perfect. If we could discern the universe in 
 the same way that Spirit discerns it, then that 
 would be spiritual discernment on our part; 
 but we are not able to exercise spiritual dis- 
 cernment through the physical senses, nor ever 
 
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 44 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 shall be, "for the carnal mind is enmity against 
 God." We may, however, exercise spiritual 
 discernment in spite of the physical senses by 
 reasoning, as above indicated, from God as 
 premise, thus determining what the character 
 of man and the universe must be, and obeying 
 the Scriptural rule of "comparing spiritual 
 things with spiritual." 
 
 If we have spiritual discernment, we have 
 faith; for the two are identical. And if we 
 know or discern the universe and man as God 
 knows them, then in our thinking or conscious- 
 ness we reflect the divine thinking, just as 
 Jesus did. When we do this, we know the 
 power of Mind as did the Master; and the 
 Mind or consciousness which Jesus had was 
 that consciousness which healed the sick, raised 
 the dead, and cast out devils (evils). Having 
 freely received this consciousness from God, he 
 freely gave it to as many as would receive it; 
 and it is our duty to reflect this same conscious- 
 ness. St. Paul exhorts, "Let this mind be in 
 you, which was also in Christ Jesus." 
 
 To have and to exercise this healing con- 
 sciousness, and obtain results therefrom, sev- 
 eral things are requisite. First of all we must
 
 CONSCIOUSNESS THAT HEALS 45 
 
 underhand that all God's ideas and their 
 expression are spiritual, eternal, and perfect; 
 but it is far from sufficient to accept this intel- 
 lectually, as a creed to be recited in church and 
 on other formal occasions. On the other hand, 
 this view of all that is must become a part of 
 our habitual thinking. The tendency with us, 
 as mortals, is to let our thoughts, moment by 
 moment, dwell upon the subjects presented by 
 the physical or bodily senses, and to be thus 
 directed by what seems to transpire in our 
 bodies and in the so-called physical world. In 
 other words, it is considered "natural" for us 
 to let our thoughts drift with the current of 
 sense testimony. The duty set before us is to 
 make head against this current and never to 
 drift with it a moment, when we can avoid it. 
 Our problem is to gain gradually, and as 
 rapidly as possible, the ability to keep habitu- 
 ally our thoughts on the plane of spiritual 
 discernment. This we shall accomplish by dis- 
 tinctly and purposely lifting our thoughts, mo- 
 ment by moment, away from the presentations 
 of the bodily senses and by fixing them on God 
 and on the nature of His spiritual creation; or, 
 if sense testimony obtrudes itself upon us so
 
 46 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 much that we cannot ignore it, we may then 
 deny and reverse it in favor of the spiritual 
 truth, until its claims are so much silenced that 
 they retire into the background. If we thus 
 persistently take control of and direct our 
 thoughts, in a few weeks or months the spiritual 
 attitude of mind will become habitual, and 
 most of the time there will abide in conscious- 
 ness a realization of the perfection of man and 
 all real things; that all are expressions of the 
 spiritual, eternal, and perfect, and this quite 
 independently of the fact that at the given 
 time we may be "treating" ourselves or another 
 for sickness, sin, or any other trouble. To 
 have such a consciousness is to "pray without 
 ceasing." 
 
 This consciousness must be not merely intel- 
 lectual; it must be transfused with love, the 
 love of God and the love of His whole creation, 
 as being spiritual and good, and therefore 
 lovable. By conscious, persistent effort we can 
 acquire the habit of having our thoughts and 
 feelings turn to God and to the right percep- 
 tion and active knowing and loving of His 
 creation; and the time soon comes when this
 
 CONSCIOUSNESS THAT HEALS 47 
 
 no longer calls for effort, but our thoughts and 
 feelings run naturally in such channels. 
 
 Finally, the spiritual consciousness, to the 
 degree that it is attained, must find exempli- 
 fication in our lives, so far as it is possible to 
 make the demonstration. If loyal to the spirit- 
 ual program of life, we shall not seek material 
 things as an end in themselves, or under the 
 belief that they are real, but we shall know 
 that substance is Spirit and matter is only 
 shadow. Then we will seek "first the kingdom 
 of God, and his righteousness," and let the ma- 
 terial take a secondary place until such time as 
 the appearance of it is destroyed by the fuller 
 realization of Truth. We shall not recognize 
 intelligence or power in matter by taking 
 drugs, and we shall not, when we can harmoni- 
 ously avoid it, seek the pleasures of the flesh. 
 
 Such a spiritual consciousness exemplified in 
 daily life will be, in large degree, Godlike, and 
 will be transparent to the divine Mind, even as 
 a pane of glass is transparent to sunlight. 
 Mrs. Eddy says, "The manifestation of God 
 through mortals is as light passing through the 
 windowpane" (Science and Health, p. 295).
 
 48 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 In like manner, the light of Truth passes 
 through a spiritualized consciousness and 
 destroys all belief in sin and disease, and ulti- 
 mately will destroy the belief in death and mat- 
 ter. Such a consciousness is a window open 
 toward heaven. It lets in the light for our- 
 selves, and whoever turns toward us for help 
 may experience enough of the light of Truth 
 and Love shining through to heal him partially 
 or wholly of his diseases. To change the fig- 
 ure, if we have such a consciousness, it is as a 
 mirror reflecting the divine Mind, and by con- 
 sciously directing our spiritual thoughts, we 
 may reflect the healing rays of Truth and Love 
 upon whom we will. 
 
 From this description it will be seen that in 
 Christian Science it is the divine Mind and the 
 reflected consciousness thereof which heals the 
 sick. It will also be seen how radically dif- 
 ferent is this process from faith-cure, based on 
 blind belief, and from processes of hypnotism 
 or suggestive therapeutics, wherein a human 
 consciousness which accepts matter, sin, and 
 disease as real is the supposed curative agent. 
 It must be very evident that Christian Science 
 healing is based on the divine Mind, God, while
 
 CONSCIOUSNESS THAT HEALS 49 
 
 all other forms of mental treatment are based 
 more or less on the human, "carnal mind," 
 which, as Paul says, "is enmity against God." 
 The state of consciousness above described 
 exemplifies the 1st Psalm: "Blessed is the man 
 that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, 
 nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth 
 in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is 
 in the law of the Lord ; and in his law doth he 
 meditate day and night. And he shall be like 
 a tree planted by the rivers of water, . . . 
 his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever 
 he doeth shall prosper." 
 
 Some people speak of being repellant to 
 others, or of being repelled by others. It is 
 only a sense of self that is repelled. Imagine 
 light being repelled by darkness ! Imagine any 
 sinner, however great his sin, repelling the all- 
 potent, the all-embracing love of Christ, mani- 
 fested through Jesus! Is there any case on 
 record of Jesus being repelled? Did he come 
 to turn away from sinners, or to save sinners 
 from their sins? Let us become so unselfed 
 that there is nothing in us to be repelled. Then, 
 too, we shall not repel others.
 
 PRAYER 
 
 To make this subject plain, let us first con- 
 sider the steps by which a young man prays 
 his way through college. 
 
 1. Recognition. Any young man who, of 
 his own volition, registers in a college for a 
 course, with an intelligent sense of what he is 
 doing, recognizes that the college administers 
 to its students a body of knowledge, and that 
 this knowledge is in existence, ready to be 
 administered, before the student goes there. 
 The young man does not expect any knowl- 
 edge, any facts or laws, to be created for his 
 special benefit. Moreover, if he stops to think, 
 he recognizes that neither this college, nor any 
 other, nor all of them combined, have any 
 monopoly of the facts and laws which they 
 teach. All these facts and laws are just as 
 much present in any man's home as they are in 
 any college, and a knowledge of them could be 
 gained in any man's home. The college is sim- 
 ply a more convenient place in which to gain
 
 PRAYER 51 
 
 this knowledge, because the college arranges 
 the knowledge in the right order of presenta- 
 tion, and parcels it out in daily portions of the 
 proper amount for the student to master, and 
 gives him guidance and discipline, which he 
 could not get at home, at least not without a 
 very competent tutor. He could do the work 
 at home, though not so easily. 
 
 2. Desire. Having recognized that the 
 college has a body of knowledge to administer, 
 the student, to succeed, must desire that knowl- 
 edge. If he goes to college with the right pur- 
 pose, he does not go for the buildings, nor for 
 the faculty, nor for the amusements, but with 
 a great desire for a knowledge of the facts and 
 laws which he has recognized to be already in 
 existence. 
 
 3. Appropriation through concentration 
 and drill. Recognition and desire are funda- 
 mental to the young man's gaining the body of 
 knowledge which the college administers, but 
 they are not sufficient. To succeed, the stu- 
 dent must, each day, concentrate his conscious- 
 ness upon the daily portion of the facts and 
 laws allotted to him, in the various branches 
 which he is studying. Nor is it sufficient for
 
 52 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 him to study each fact and law until he clearly 
 sees that it is true. He may have to spend 
 considerable labor to do even this, but he must 
 do more. He must go over and over these 
 facts and laws, and drill them into his memory, 
 into his consciousness, else he will not have 
 command of them, either at examination time, 
 or in his succeeding lessons, or when he needs 
 them to do practical work. 
 
 The average college student drills the facts 
 and laws in any subject into his mind suffi- 
 ciently to enable him to have command of them 
 until he has passed the examinations on that 
 subject, and on related subjects; but how few 
 of the facts and laws, taught in a college 
 course, does the average student drill into his 
 consciousness so thoroughly that he has a life- 
 long command of them, so that he can make 
 instant use of them at any time when it would 
 suit his convenience or pleasure to do so. Only 
 of the facts and laws of which he has gained an 
 ineradicable and ready-on-demand knowledge, 
 can he be said to have gained an absolute 
 mastery. 
 
 During the process of concentration and 
 drill, the student has obstacles to contend with.
 
 PRAYER 53 
 
 In the first place, he has to overcome the inertia 
 of ignorance, the difficulty of seeing and under- 
 standing the subject matter which he is study- 
 ing. But, with many, an even greater difficulty 
 is to rule out distracting thoughts, and keep 
 the consciousness fixed with continuity, hours 
 at a time, upon the subjects being studied. 
 The young man who cannot, during his study 
 hours, keep thoughts of the dance he went to 
 the night before, or of the theatre party he is 
 going to on Saturday night, or of the next 
 week's football match, out of his mind for the 
 most part, will not make much of a success in 
 college. The difficulty of doing this is often 
 very great, but most students do it, in spite of 
 the difficulty. Distracting thoughts incident 
 to disease of more or less severity, homesick- 
 ness, anxiety over money matters, and many 
 others, also have to be sternly ruled out of the 
 mind, in order to study successfully ; and many 
 accomplish this task. 
 
 4. Application. Nothing so fixes facts 
 and laws, learned in theory, in the conscious- 
 ness, in such a way as to give a mastery of 
 them, as an application of them, as fast as 
 learned, to practical conditions; and the best
 
 54 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 colleges attend to it, that their students shall 
 be induced to make practical application of 
 their theoretical knowledge to the largest pos- 
 sible extent. This not only helps them while 
 in college, but fits them for work in the world. 
 
 The student who properly attends to the ele- 
 ments of recognition, desire, appropriation, and 
 application, in connection with the body of 
 knowledge which the college is administering, 
 will, without the slightest doubt, graduate 
 from the college in due time and with high 
 honors ; and, if he properly attends to these ele- 
 ments all through his college course, with refer- 
 ence to that body of knowledge he has daily 
 maintained an attitude of prayer, when prayer 
 is rightly understood, for true prayer always 
 includes the elements above mentioned. It 
 includes desire, but it never includes an ex- 
 pectation of or an asking for any change in the 
 objects of desire, or in that which is addressed 
 in prayer. It recognizes that all the change 
 must take place in the one who is praying, lift- 
 ing him from ignorance to knowledge, from 
 bondage to freedom, and from evil to good. 
 
 Now let us consider how it works out on a 
 higher and more important field of endeavor.
 
 PRAYER 55 
 
 What practically all well-meaning people in 
 the world are striving for is the attainment of 
 holiness, health and plenty, in other words, 
 harmony. Religious people recognize that the 
 source of these is God, and that it is a duty as 
 well as a privilege to make these things a sub- 
 ject of prayer. What is the proper process? 
 It is important to know, lest we should "ask 
 and have not, because we ask amiss." 
 
 1. Recognition. Holiness, health (har- 
 mony, strength) , and plenty, are laws of God; 
 they are the eternal manifestations of His 
 being. Since God is omnipresent, these mani- 
 festations are omnipresent; and since He is 
 infinite, these manifestations are infinite and 
 inexhaustible, and are ever at hand. So we 
 should never expect God, or ask Him, to create 
 any holiness, health, or supply for us, or in any 
 way to change Himself or His laws. If we do 
 so, we shall "ask amiss." But we should rec- 
 ognize that God has already provided for us 
 all good, and has placed it nearer to us than 
 the air we breathe, as near to every man as are 
 the facts of the multiplication table, which are 
 at hand, ready to be learned and appropriated 
 wherever a man is. This is what Jesus meant,
 
 56 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 when he said: "And therefore I say unto you, 
 'Have faith that whatever you ask for in prayer 
 is already granted you, and you will find that 
 it will be.' ' Twentieth Century New Testa- 
 ment. Mark 11:24. 
 
 2. Desire. Without desire for holiness, 
 health and plenty, and without desiring them 
 from their only true source, God, we shall have 
 no more success in attaining them than would 
 a college student, who, though attending col- 
 lege, had no real desire for the knowledge there 
 administered. To say that we desire, is not 
 sufficient. The desire must be real. Said 
 Jesus, "Blessed are they which do hunger and 
 thirst after righteousness; for they shall be 
 filled." On page 6 of Science and Health, 
 Mrs. Eddy writes: "The danger from (audi- 
 ble) prayer is that it may lead us into tempta- 
 tion. By it we may become involuntary 
 hypocrites, uttering desires which are not real 
 and consoling ourselves in the midst of sin with 
 the recollection that we have prayed over it or 
 mean to ask forgiveness at some later day." 
 
 3. Appropriation through concentration 
 and drill. We are born as ignorant of true 
 holiness, health, and supply, and of their
 
 PRAYER 57 
 
 Source, as we are of arithmetic, language, or 
 chemistry; and we shall never gain a mastery 
 of the harmony of life in its various phases 
 with any less effort, or in any very different 
 manner, than we gain a mastery of the forms 
 of worldly knowledge taught in school and col- 
 lege. If we wish to gain real possession of 
 holiness, health, and plenty, we must concen- 
 trate our thought upon them, and upon their 
 relation to God, until we understand what they 
 really are. But simply theoretical understand- 
 ing is far from being sufficient. Having seen 
 and understood what these forms of harmony 
 are, and that they belong to us in the same 
 sense that the facts of the multiplication table 
 belong to us if we are willing to put forth the 
 requisite effort to gain them, it next behooves 
 us to hold our thought to and upon the fact 
 that harmony, in its various phases, is the law 
 of God, and is really the law of our being, and 
 hold it there consecutively by the hour, rigor- 
 ously excluding all other thoughts, just as the 
 child holds his thought to and upon the multi- 
 plication table, with repetition after repetition, 
 and application upon application, in order to 
 absorb it indelibly into his consciousness.
 
 58 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 During this process of concentration and 
 drill, our greatest obstacles are intruding 
 thoughts, trying to distract our attention, 
 temptations of sinful desire ; thoughts of pleas- 
 ure, innocent enough in themselves, but out of 
 place during our period of prayer ; feelings of 
 fear, anxiety, worry ; feelings of pain or weak- 
 ness; thoughts along a score of lines opposite 
 to the law of harmony which we are trying to 
 master. In order for rapid growth, all such dis- 
 tracting thoughts must be sternly ruled out of 
 our consciousness for some considerable con- 
 secutive period of each day, and as much as 
 possible during all the day, in order that our 
 thoughts and feelings may be consciously and 
 determinedly fastened upon harmony in its 
 various manifestations, until we have perma- 
 nently absorbed it into our consciousness, or 
 identified our consciousness with it. 
 
 In this connection we may with profit recall 
 such counsel as follows: "Work out your own 
 salvation with watchful care. Remember, it is 
 God, who, in his kindness, is at work within 
 you, enabling you both to will and to work." 
 Phil. 2:12, 13. Twentieth Century New Tes- 
 tament. "What I say unto you I say unto
 
 PRAYER 59 
 
 all, Watch." Mark 13:37. "Pray without 
 ceasing." I Thes. 5 :17. "Let us not be weary 
 in well-doing; for in due season, we shall reap 
 if we faint not." Gal. 6 :9. "For precept must 
 be upon precept, precept upon precept; line 
 upon line, line upon line." Isa. 28:10. "Stand 
 porter at the door of thought. Admitting only 
 such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily 
 results, you will control yourself harmoniously. 
 When the condition is present which you say 
 induces disease, whether it be air, exercise, 
 heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform 
 your office as porter and shut out these un- 
 healthy thoughts and fears. Exclude from 
 mortal mind the offending errors. The issues 
 of pain or pleasure must come through mind, 
 and like a watchman forsaking his post, we 
 admit the intruding belief, forgetting that 
 through divine help we can forbid this en- 
 trance." Science and Health, page 392. 
 "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the 
 good, and the true, and you will bring these 
 into your experience proportionably to their 
 occupancy of your thoughts." Science and 
 Health, page 261. 
 
 4. Application. Nothing so quickly and
 
 60 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 so thoroughly gives us mastery of the law of 
 harmony in its various phases, after we theo- 
 retically understand what it is, as its constant 
 application to the problems of daily living. 
 As above indicated, until we have thoroughly 
 accomplished our tasks, we should set aside 
 some portion of each day for concentrated and 
 consecutive direction of our thought to and 
 upon the law of harmony, even as the college 
 student has his periods of consecutive study; 
 but, in addition to this, we should make use of 
 our knowledge that harmony really is the law 
 and the power of being to cast out of our con- 
 sciousness feelings of fear, worry, doubt, sin, 
 and pain at the very moment that these in- 
 truders try to gain entrance. If any of these 
 forms of error seem to have gained permanent 
 lodgment in our consciousness, as in the case 
 of chronic sin or disease, we may well contend 
 with these more especially during our periods 
 of consecutive work or prayer ; but throughout 
 the day we should apply our knowledge of har- 
 mony to the prompt ejection of any feelings 
 of discord along new or unusual lines, which 
 we detect springing up in our minds. This
 
 PRAYER 61 
 
 will be a most valuable application of what we 
 are learning and striving for. 
 
 Most people have really acquired a mastery 
 of the fundamentals of arithmetic. They could 
 stand an examination at any time, at a 
 moment's notice. If any ordinary problem 
 presents itself in their business, they have im- 
 mediate command of the knowledge with which 
 to solve it. They do not have to consult a book, 
 or to refresh their memory. They have no fear 
 that the requisite knowledge is not there. 
 When they have reached this stage, they do 
 not have to study these fundamentals of arith- 
 metic any more, or make any conscious effort 
 with regard to them. They have merely to use 
 the knowledge when occasion presents itself. 
 They have so assimilated this form of knowl- 
 edge that they do not hunger or thirst for it 
 any more, since it springs up in them an inex- 
 haustible well of water, ready for instant use. 
 
 Whoever recognizes that harmony holi- 
 ness, health, plenty is the fact of being, and 
 is ever at hand, eternal, changeless, and inex- 
 haustible, the perpetual manifestation of God; 
 and whoever desires that harmony in all its
 
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 manifestations with his whole heart ; and who- 
 ever will concentrate his thought and feeling 
 upon this law, and hold his mind to it, and drill 
 it into his consciousness, and make continued 
 application of it, with the persistence, watch- 
 fulness, patience, and assiduity that the aver- 
 age person has spent upon the fundamentals of 
 arithmetic, such a person may be sure of attain- 
 ing the same mastery of holiness, health and 
 plenty. Then he will have no fear of losing 
 them. He will not have to strive so hard for 
 them as he once did. He will merely have to 
 use his demonstrable knowledge of them occa- 
 sionally to rule out discord, just as the average 
 person has to use his knowledge of arithmetic 
 occasionally to solve a problem, but he will have 
 no more fear that he will be unable to overcome 
 discord than the average person entertains a 
 fear that he cannot reckon up a grocery bill on 
 occasion. 
 
 A person who has acquired such -a demon- 
 strable and ready-on-demand knowledge of the 
 harmony of God in its various manifestations 
 has fed upon the bread of life, and to him the 
 following words of Jesus properly apply : UJfi 
 that eateth of this bread shall live forever."
 
 PRAYER 63 
 
 "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall 
 give him shall never thirst; but the water that 
 I shall give him shall be in him a well of water 
 springing up into everlasting life." 
 
 MATTER 
 
 "Matter makes itself known to us by the 
 testimony of the senses. We see it, hear it, 
 smell it, taste it, touch it. But observe, that, 
 after all, this is indirect testimony. These 
 impressions are all of them simply brain im- 
 pressions. We see, hear, smell, taste, touch, 
 in our consciousness only. We cannot assert 
 therefore that matter exists apart from this 
 consciousness. Science has nothing to say 
 about the ultimate nature of matter. Science 
 studies matter simply as a fact of human expe- 
 rience. We are not concerned in physics with 
 what things really are, but solely with their 
 properties and behavior. Physics neither 
 offers nor seeks an explanation of the universe. 
 It leaves all such problems to metaphysics." 
 From the Text-book on Physics by Henderson 
 and Woodhull, of Columbia University.
 
 FROM SICKNESS TO HEALTH 
 
 Matter is non-intelligent, even if it were real, 
 which it is not. Matter, so-called, possesses 
 neither consciousness nor the power of motion. 
 It cannot plan its own states. It cannot re- 
 arrange itself, whether in the mass or in mo- 
 lecular relations. Matter, so-called, is a belief 
 or shadow of substance, which mortal mind 
 images forth as a medium in which and through 
 which mortal mind can depict its operations. 
 Therefore all states and conditions of matter, 
 whether of the mortal body or other manifesta- 
 tions of matter, are determined by mortal 
 mind, unless, through the operation of Sci- 
 entific Christianity, mortal mind has been 
 brought under control by the conscious appli- 
 cation of divine Mind, in which case the body 
 is, in a sense, controlled by divine Mind, and 
 continues to be, more and more, until such time 
 as the belief of matter is completely dispelled. 
 
 It is well to understand what some phases 
 of the mortal belief are, and certain claims of 
 
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 SICKNESS TO HEALTH 65 
 
 mortal mind are herewith set forth. If a 
 person entertains in his consciousness, in an 
 habitual way, anger, anxiety, grief, malice, 
 covetousness, discontent, lust, envy, self-con- 
 demnation, or any inharmonious mental state, 
 or any mental state that is unlike the divine 
 Mind, that mental condition is almost sure, 
 sooner or later, to be pictured forth in some 
 inharmonious condition of the body, named 
 disease, whether organic or inorganic, so-called. 
 Any of these inharmonious or ungodlike men- 
 tal states, if habitual, gradually result in im- 
 peded and irregular action of one or more of 
 the bodily organs, resulting in the develop- 
 ment of poisons in the system, and in mal- 
 nutrition and the imperfect assimilation of 
 food. These conditions tend to increase, and 
 almost any kind of a disease may result. 
 Almost any up-to-date physician would agree 
 that this is so. 
 
 A gentleman of the author's acquaintance 
 went into the office of an expert blood analyst, 
 and had a drop of blood drawn from his wrist, 
 he being at the time in an ordinary, contented 
 frame of mind. Microscopic and other analy- 
 sis of the drop showed the blood to be pure.
 
 66 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 Then the gentleman purposely thought about 
 a matter concerning which it was easy for him 
 to become angry. After twenty minutes of 
 this, he had a drop of blood drawn, and the 
 analysis showed the presence of both pus and 
 bile. This fact ought to make it evident how 
 disease often starts. 
 
 The foregoing is a statement and illustration 
 of the workings of mortal mind, error, and rep- 
 resents a condition of affairs to be overcome; 
 and the mortal-mind cause, so-called, has to be 
 overcome before the mortal-mind effect, so- 
 called, can be overcome, another way of saying 
 which is, that the sin must be overcome before 
 the disease resulting from it can be overcome. 
 The inharmonious and ungodlike mental condi- 
 tions must be corrected, and harmonious and 
 Godlike mental conditions must be established 
 in their places, before the disease can be healed. 
 Sometimes the realization of the practitioner, 
 or of the patient himself when he is reading the 
 Bible or Christian Science literature with the 
 true understanding, may be so clear and abso- 
 lute as to overcome both the sin and the disease 
 in a few moments, or in a single treatment. In 
 that case, the mortal-mind cause, so-called, and
 
 SICKNESS TO HEALTH 67 
 
 mortal-mind effect, so-called, are both over- 
 come as part of one and the same act. How- 
 ever, where the healing is not immediate, it is 
 worth while to gain it by faithful and con- 
 tinued work. Under such a program, the chief 
 effort of the patient and practitioner should be 
 to overcome the inharmonious mental habits, 
 being sure that, as soon as they are overcome, 
 or very soon after, the disease will disappear. 
 Some of the following suggestions will apply 
 to one person and some to another. Each will 
 doubtless be able to pick out what applies to 
 himself or herself. 
 
 Are you tempted to be frequently angry at 
 your fellowmen, or at yourself, or at animals 
 and things which are around you? "Cease from 
 anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in 
 any wise to do evil." "Be not hasty in your 
 spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the 
 bosom of fools." "He that hath no rule over 
 his own spirit is like a city that is broken 
 down." "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and 
 anger, and clamour and evil speaking, be put 
 away from you, with all malice." 
 
 Are you tempted to entertain and dwell 
 upon lustful thoughts? Remember that the
 
 68 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 lusts of the flesh are not ordained of God, and 
 are not known to God. They have no part in 
 the divine Mind. They do not belong to the 
 true man, which is your true self -hood, and 
 which it is your business to demonstrate. "Be 
 ye perfect, even as your Father in heaven is 
 perfect." Entertain no thought or desire 
 which your heavenly Father does not enter- 
 tain. "Let no man say when he is tempted, 
 I am tempted (tried) of God: for God cannot 
 be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any 
 man: but every man is tempted when he is 
 drawn away of his own lust and enticed. When 
 lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and 
 sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth (disease 
 and) death. Do not err, my beloved brethren. 
 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from 
 above (and not from the earth or from the 
 flesh) and cometh down from the Father of 
 lights, with whom is no variableness, neither 
 shadow of turning. Of His own will begat 
 He us with the word of truth (not by any 
 fleshly process), that we should be a kind of 
 first fruit of His creatures. Wherefore, lay 
 aside all filthiness, and superfluity of naughti-
 
 SICKNESS TO HEALTH 69 
 
 ness, and receive with meekness the engrafted 
 word which is able to save your souls." 
 
 Are you tempted to continued grief over the 
 loss of some cherished possession or over the 
 
 ! so-called death of some loved one? Know that 
 God has made all that really is, and that noth- 
 ing which He has made can be destroyed. 
 Know that no real good is, in truth, separated 
 from you for an instant, and know that it is 
 not in the power of error to keep you very long 
 from realizing this fact. All that seems lost 
 to you will soon be restored to you with a more 
 perfect and satisfying possession or under- 
 standing thereof, and the sooner in propor- 
 tion as you know this to be true, and have 
 confidence in the imperishability of that which 
 is good. Nothing is lost in truth, nor is the 
 realization thereof lost very long to those who 
 know this fact. "I would that you sorrow not 
 as those who know not the gospel." God does 
 not grieve over anything. He has no occasion 
 to. In truth, you are His image and likeness ; 
 and you have no occasion for grief, if you do 
 not allow yourself to be deceived by appear- 
 ances, but, on the contrary, hang on to your
 
 70 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 Scientific knowledge of things as they are. 
 The world thinks that it is a virtue to grieve 
 under certain conditions, and that it would be 
 unnatural in an opprobrious sense not to do so ; 
 but do not be deceived by the world's judg- 
 ment. There is no virtue in grief. The Chris- 
 tian who really believes his faith has little 
 occasion for grief. Put it out of mind as not 
 belonging to your high calling in Christ Jesus, 
 if you would be holy, happy and well. 
 
 Are you tempted to be anxious about any- 
 thing? Are you given to worry and fretting? 
 No person ever bettered his condition in the 
 least by entertaining any such sentiments ; but 
 many have done themselves, in appearance, 
 incalculable harm by cherishing anxiety and 
 worry. Do your duty by God, by your fellow- 
 men, and by yourself, hour by hour, and day 
 by day, as well as you know how, and let it 
 rest at that. "Why are ye anxious for the 
 morrow, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall 
 drink, or wherewithal ye shall be clothed? Seek 
 ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteous- 
 ness, and all these things shall be added unto 
 you." Do the best thing you can discover at 
 all times. Having done that, "be careful (full
 
 SICKNESS TO HEALTH 71 
 
 of care) for nothing." As some one once said: 
 "If you can do anything about it, why don't 
 you? And if you can't, what is the use of 
 worrying about it?" But if you believe God, 
 you have no occasion to worry. If you really 
 believe and trust Him, your needs will be met, 
 day by day, whether you can see the way in 
 advance or not. 
 
 Are you doubtful or discouraged because 
 you are not healed quicker? That is the devil's 
 device to keep you in an inharmonious state of 
 mind, so that, in belief, your food will not 
 assimilate, your bodily organs will not act 
 properly, and poisons will continue to be 
 secreted in your system. Do not be caught by 
 this snare of the devil. Know that God made 
 man, that all God's works are perfect; that 
 health and harmony are eternal laws of God, 
 and are present facts. Resting in this assur- 
 ance, be hopeful, cheerful, patient and persist- 
 ent. Maintain the joy of the Lord. Rule out 
 all inharmonious and ungodlike emotions and 
 sentiments. Keep them out by relying on God 
 and by meditating on His law. If you do this 
 persistently, the mortal-mind so-called causes 
 of your trouble will be removed; your food will
 
 72 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 assimilate better; mal-nutrition will gradually 
 cease; poisons will cease to be formed; the 
 poisons already in your system, in belief, will 
 be gradually eliminated; new and healthy tis- 
 sues will be built up. It often takes time to 
 accomplish this, but what of it? You enter- 
 tained wrong mental states for weeks and 
 months before the resulting disease developed. 
 Is it any wonder that you should be required 
 to entertain right and God-like habits of 
 thought for weeks before the disease disap- 
 pears? And do you not see that if you allow 
 yourself to vacillate between hope and fear, 
 between confidence and doubt, between trust 
 in God and anxiety, and do not trust God with 
 your whole heart, you are delaying your heal- 
 ing just so much? It is practically certain that 
 if you maintain a confident, hopeful, cheerful 
 frame of mind, without interruption, for a 
 number of weeks consecutively, beneficial 
 physical results will be in evidence. "Why art 
 thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou 
 disquieted within me ? Hope thou in God : for 
 I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my 
 countenance, and my God." The summation 
 of the matter is : If you want to bo well, believe
 
 SICKNESS TO HEALTH 73 
 
 in God, and the all-power and all-presence of 
 good; in the essential nothingness and imper- 
 manency of evil in its every manifestation ; cul- 
 tivate and maintain God-like qualities of mind ; 
 cast out and refuse to entertain all ungodlike 
 qualities of mind, however much excuse there 
 may seem to be for entertaining them; keep 
 your confidence in God, and keep on doing it ; 
 and, meanwhile, place your sole reliance for 
 healing upon Spirit, and withdraw your reli- 
 ance absolutely from matter, whether in the 
 form of drugs, or in any other form, thus 
 honoring the Lord your God with your whole 
 trust and with your whole reliance. Follow 
 this program faithfully and without cessation; 
 and your reward is sure; and it will come in 
 such time as is really for your best good. To 
 carry out this program, do not hesitate at any 
 amount of effort, nor at any reasonable ex- 
 pense, nor at any sacrifice of worldly plans and 
 pleasures ; for that which you will attain as the 
 result of this program will be the salvation of 
 your soul, the being made whole and God-like 
 in your consciousness. 
 
 Your particular disease may be one which 
 was not caused in the beginning by any inhar-
 
 74 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 monious mental state which you were cherish- 
 ing, but may have been caused by an accident, 
 by being poisoned in some way, by the mortal 
 belief of contagion, by the mortal belief of 
 having taken germs into your system through 
 drinking water, or food, or otherwise, or by any 
 one of a variety of so-called causes of disease 
 extraneous to your thought. Even if this be 
 the case, yet you probably have been through 
 a long period of fear, anxiety, doubt, and dis- 
 couragement incident to the disease and to 
 complications in your affairs which your dis- 
 eased condition may have resulted in. Hence, 
 very likely, there has developed in your system, 
 in belief, more or less of the inactive and 
 poisonous conditions which result from fear, 
 anxiety, and discouragement, and, in this way, 
 the original disease has been aggravated and 
 perpetuated in your consciousness, and in the 
 bodily manifestation. Hence, to heal the dis- 
 ease requires the overcoming and casting out 
 of fear, anxiety, doubt, and discouragement, 
 almost or quite as much as though the disease 
 had been caused originally by some untoward 
 mental condition. Little or nothing may stand 
 in the way of your healing except the inhar-
 
 SICKNESS TO HEALTH 75 
 
 monious and ungodlike mental conditions 
 which you are cherishing, whether your disease 
 originated in such conditions or not. If the 
 disease did not originate in improper mental 
 emotions which you were cherishing, then the 
 disease came on without sin on your own part ; 
 and it ought to be easily overcome, if you have 
 not allowed sin (ungodlike mental emotions) 
 to creep in and occupy your consciousness 
 because of the disease. As said before, you 
 should "right about face," place your hope, 
 your trust, your confidence, in God, and keep 
 on doing so without vacillation. Then the dis- 
 ease will commence to yield, and be completely 
 overcome, whatever its original cause, so-called, 
 may ha^e been. The whole universe is ruled 
 absolutely by God, Love, unadulterated good. 
 If you actually believe this, you have nothing 
 to fear, nothing to be anxious about, nothing 
 to be discouraged about. It is only the cher- 
 ishing of fear, anxiety, doubt, and discourage- 
 ment which can long cloud over from your 
 realization the health, harmony, strength and 
 abundance which God has provided from the 
 foundation of the world, and which are already 
 yours, and which are constantly closer to you
 
 76 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 than the air you breathe, and from which, in 
 reality, you can never get away. Therefore, 
 don't be afraid; don't be anxious; don't grieve; 
 don't be discouraged: you cannot afford to. 
 Hope and trust in God ; and keep at it, through 
 thick and thin of the clouds of mortal error, 
 and they will soon vanish entirely. 
 
 "All the good law and all the good order 
 which the state or church enjoys to-day may be 
 traced back over some route to the words and 
 deeds of men who rebelled against the kind of 
 law and the kind of order that they found 
 administered by its 'constituted guardians'; to 
 men who dared to appeal from the 'keepers of 
 divine truth' to divine truth itself from the 
 'trustees of God' to God himself." Selected.
 
 WORKING IN TRUTH 
 
 "Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, and 
 lean not to thine own understanding, but in all 
 thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall 
 direct thy paths." 
 
 To trust in God is not an inactive state of 
 mind, and is not most apropos when every- 
 thing is, to human sense, smooth sailing. We 
 have more need of trust in God in time of out- 
 ward storm than in time of outward calm. 
 
 To rightly trust in God is not a passive 
 condition, but is to actively lay hold on ano! 
 declare the supremacy, allness, and potency of 
 the everlasting laws of God, good, and to keep 
 doing this every moment, until we have won 
 inward peace, and not only peace, but joy, 
 and not only joy, but the conscious sense of 
 power, the realization that no error can stand 
 before us because we have consciouslv taken 
 
 w 
 
 our stand with the law, the dynamic energy, of 
 God. We are fighting with the sword of the 
 Spirit, which is the word of God. 
 
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 78 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 If we can keep ourselves in this active reali- 
 zation of peace, joy in good, and power, at 
 least part of the time daily, and especially if 
 we can so reverse the arguments of mortal 
 mind as to rise into this sense of spiritual 
 power at those special times when error would 
 argue the reality of discouragement, injustice, 
 grief, separation, etc., to us, so that we shall 
 maintain a peaceful consciousness all of the 
 time, rising at times into the active, assertive 
 realization of the presence and power of unity, 
 justice, and love, the outward discord will soon 
 disappear. 
 
 Error is most surely making headway in 
 enforcing its so-called law, when it has induced 
 us to listen to its argument for the reality of 
 injustice, separation, misunderstanding, dis- 
 couragement, grief, and other falsehoods, and 
 this is just the time when error needs to be met. 
 It is not wise to say to ourselves, Well, I will 
 yield to this sense of discouragement, or smart- 
 ing, or grief, or injustice, or what not, until the 
 mood passes, and then, when I am not under 
 temptation, when I feel calmer, I will work in 
 the truth. To assume this attitude, is to allow 
 error to entrench itself, which is always unwise
 
 WORKING IN TRUTH 79 
 
 and sometimes dangerous; it is to allow our- 
 selves to get into a frame of mind where we are 
 liable to do or say some unwise thing against 
 our own right interests. Moreover, to assume 
 this attitude is to sacrifice a golden oppor- 
 tunity. 
 
 If we make the initial effort, we shall find 
 that we can rise to a clearness and strength of 
 realization of the presence and active power of 
 good in its various phases at the very time when 
 temptation to doubt, discouragement, grief, 
 anxiety, and the like is upon us, to a degree 
 that we cannot attain to at any other time. 
 The really brave man experiences a sense of 
 courage in the face of danger that he could not 
 possibly conjure up at a time when no danger 
 was apparent. So the true Christian can real- 
 ize a degree of love, at the very time when 
 error is trying to argue hate or unfairness or 
 jealousy, without or within, or both, that he 
 otherwise would find difficulty in attaining. 
 
 Likewise, the true Christian, if he takes 
 advantage of his opportunity, can realize joy 
 in good, joy in the knowledge that it is in 
 his power to enforce good, joy in the certain 
 prospect of seeing error, injustice, falsehood,
 
 80 
 
 narrowness, go down before the mental en- 
 forcement of Love,- to a degree that, at his 
 present stage of growth, he cannot attain to 
 except when he is spurred to rise to such a 
 spiritual height by a conscious reaction against 
 outward suggestions or occasions for grief, 
 anxiety, or fear. And so the true Christian 
 meets every outward phase of error, in the 
 very moment of its appearing, with a superla- 
 tive realization of the presence and potency of 
 the opposing phase of good, and of his power 
 through right mental work to enforce that 
 phase of good to the overcoming and total 
 destruction of the manifest phase of error. 
 Thus hatred, malice, envy, jealousy, revenge, 
 are met with the realization and mental en- 
 forcement of Love; injustice with the realiza- 
 tion and enforcement of justice; fear with the 
 realization and enforcement of the omnipotence 
 of God, good. 
 
 Just as the courage of the trained soldier 
 rises instantaneously and automatically in the 
 face of danger, likewise we can rapidly so train 
 ourselves that the disposition to the mental 
 enforcement of the law of God, good, shall 
 spring up in our consciousness instantaneously
 
 WORKING IN TRUTH 81 
 
 and spontaneously upon the appearance of 
 error in any phase, and this, too, as previ- 
 ously remarked, to a degree that we could not 
 now attain to except in the face of some obsta- 
 cle to be overcome. And it is this instantane- 
 ous, superlative realization and enforcement of 
 good that is of supreme value in overcoming 
 and destroying error. It does not permit us 
 to virtually consent to the reality of error any- 
 where from a few hours to a few days before 
 waking up to combat it, thus allowing error to 
 entrench itself in our consciousness and in the 
 outward situation; but it -meets error on the 
 spot, and with a clearness and potency of reali- 
 zation to which we could not attain if we were 
 less prompt in turning to God ; and thus error 
 is stifled and cast into outer darkness, its native 
 nothingness, often in the very moment of its 
 seeming birth, and usually before it has as- 
 sumed large apparent proportions. 
 
 In dealing with mental errors, such as anger, 
 jealousy, injustice, selfishness, narrowness, as 
 manifest through those with whom we are asso- 
 ciated, it is usually wiser not to say very much 
 audibly, or to be drawn into discussions, but to 
 mentally enforce the law of God. "Though
 
 82 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the 
 flesh (by human speech and understanding) ; 
 for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, 
 but mighty through God (Love) to the pull- 
 ing down of strongholds, casting down imagi- 
 nations and every high thing that exalteth 
 itself against the knowledge of God, and bring- 
 ing into captivity every thought (within or 
 without) to the obedience of Christ." If thou 
 art obeying God, and art thus the child of God. 
 "no weapon that is formed against thee shall 
 prosper; and every tongue that shall rise 
 against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. 
 This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, 
 and their righteousness is of me saith the 
 Lord." Let us mentally enforce this law. Let 
 us train ourselves to do it immediately and 
 automatically and confidently whenever error 
 asserts itself. "Watch." "Pray (aspire after, 
 realize and enforce good) without ceasing." 
 "Be instant in season, out of season." Thus 
 shall we uniformly have peace, joy and victory 
 in God, and ofttimes the more in the very 
 moments when error is most assertive, until, at 
 the last, we shall have part in the final victory
 
 WORKING IN TRUTH 83 
 
 when all error shall disappear, never to appear 
 again. 
 
 Thus far the overcoming of discord in the 
 mental realm has been spoken of; but discord 
 in the so-called physical realm is to be removed 
 in the same way. Apparent disease or weak- 
 ness in the body should be instantly met with 
 the realization and enforcement of the laws 
 of harmony and strength, and the sense of 
 poverty or accident should be overcome with 
 the continued and vivid realization and dec- 
 laration that plenty and order are the ever- 
 lasting facts of being, and that there are no 
 contrary facts. All that appears to the con- 
 trary is not fact, but destructible illusion. 
 
 The affairs of mortals, both mental and 
 physical, often get into sad tangles, and grow 
 worse and worse past their power to help ; but 
 this is not the case with true Christians. "All 
 tilings w^ork together for good to them that 
 love God," to them that love Him actively 
 enough to be on the alert to realize and enforce 
 His law, in their own consciousness first, and 
 then outwardly in the circle of their legitimate 
 affairs.
 
 HINDRANCES TO HEALING 
 
 (Reprinted from the C. S. Journal of July, 
 1909.) 
 
 Usually it is not difficult for a patient to see 
 that unbelief, lack of understanding, sin, doubt, 
 discouragement, fear, and lack of application 
 tend to retard or prevent healing in Christian 
 Science. But there are hindrances of another 
 class which stand in the way of the desired end, 
 and which are usually more difficult for the 
 patient to discern. These appear in the way 
 solely because the patient has not learned the 
 lesson of self -surrender. He does not know 
 what self -surrender is or means, hence he does 
 not know how to go about it; and this not 
 having been accomplished, the unconscious as- 
 sertion of self leads him to put many stumbling 
 blocks in his own way. 
 
 Jesus said to his disciples: "If any man will 
 come after me, let him deny himself, and take 
 up his cross, and follow me." The self which 
 must be denied or renounced is the carnal mind 
 
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 HINDRANCES TO HEALING 85 
 
 which Paul declared is "enmity against God: 
 for it is not subject to the law of God, neither 
 indeed can be." Many people have not care- 
 fully thought out these matters, or carefully 
 searched the Scriptures with regard to them, 
 but it is the implicit belief of the average per- 
 son that we get into the understanding of 
 the truth and the kingdom of God by com- 
 mencing where we are, and by correcting, 
 developing, and enlarging that which we 
 already have, until finally we shall reach per- 
 fection. Those, however, who act upon this 
 theory make as radical a mistake as did those 
 of ancient times who thought to start upon the 
 earth as a foundation and build a tower which 
 would reach to heaven. God brought their 
 work to utter confusion and destruction, as He 
 does with the work of those who try to build 
 spiritual life, or to gain spiritual health, on 
 the basis of the carnal mind. 
 
 Said the apostle, "Other foundation can no 
 man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus 
 Christ;" and in immediate connection with this 
 declaration we also find these words: "Let no 
 man deceive himself. If any man among you 
 seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become
 
 86 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom 
 of this world is foolishness with God." The 
 fact is, that before we can learn much of the 
 saving truth, we must be willing and ready to 
 discard, as having no truth, reliability, or per- 
 manent value, all of that habit of thought and 
 all of our so-called knowledge which is directly 
 or indirectly based on the body or the testi- 
 mony of the senses. In the measure that we 
 have emptied our minds of "philosophy and 
 vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the 
 rudiments of the world," we are ready to learn 
 and experience the benefits of Truth. Said 
 Jesus: "Except ye be converted, and become 
 as little children, ye shall not enter into the 
 kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall 
 humble himself as this little child, the same is 
 greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Jesus 
 said again: "No man can come to me, except 
 the Father which hath sent me draw him;" that 
 is, we cannot bring our mortal selves, our car- 
 nal minds, to God. We must renounce, or 
 give up, the carnal mind, and let the Spirit be 
 manifested in us; and thus we come to Christ. 
 Self not having been renounced, it crops out 
 in various ways, to the hindrance of the demon-
 
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 stration of Truth and of the patient's progress. 
 Some of these ways we do well to consider, not 
 for the purpose of condemning those who have 
 been ignorant that they were transgressing the 
 law of Spirit, but for the purpose of helping 
 all to uncover and recognize the error, so that 
 we may turn away from it and follow in the 
 true way. Most people, when they turn to 
 Truth for help, do so, not because they care 
 about Truth, but because they care about them- 
 selves. They want God's help, if He has any 
 to bestow, but it may not even occur to them 
 that they are to make any sacrifice therefor, 
 except the payment of some money to a prac- 
 titioner and the giving up of some of their time 
 to reading under the practitioner's direction. 
 At the start they do not know that Truth 
 requires of them to gain a totally new and dif- 
 ferent understanding of life and health, and 
 also in some ways to follow after a different 
 manner of life ; but after a time they begin to 
 perceive something of what the demands of 
 Truth are, and then comes the test. Will they 
 renounce self as manifested in the former ways 
 of thought and living, and follow after the 
 truth, because it is the truth, irrespective of
 
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 whether they have already received benefits or 
 not? If so, then they are loyal to the truth, 
 and unless they are placing stumbling-blocks 
 in their own way along some other line, they 
 will be healed in God's own time ; for they have 
 fulfilled the condition: "Seek ye first the king- 
 dom of God, and his righteousness; and all 
 these things shall be added unto you." 
 
 Many people desire to buy (with as small 
 an expenditure as possible) their health, with 
 the conscious or unconscious purpose to go on 
 living their former lives of worldly pleasure, 
 when health has been attained. The error and 
 disappointment of such people are well de- 
 scribed by St. James: "Ye ask, and receive 
 not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may con- 
 sume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and 
 adultresses, know ye not that the friendship of 
 the world is enmity with God? whoever there- 
 fore will be a friend of the world is the enemy 
 of God. . . . God resisteth the proud, but 
 giveth grace unto the humble. Submit your- 
 selves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and 
 he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and 
 he will draw nigh to you. . . . Humble your-
 
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 selves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall 
 lift you up." 
 
 When an individual has the proper appre- 
 ciation of the healing truth he will feel toward 
 it as Jesus describes in Matthew's Gospel: 
 "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a mer- 
 chant man, seeking goodly pearls: who, when 
 he had found one pearl of great price, went 
 and sold all that he had, and bought it." The 
 lesson on this point is further enforced by the 
 teachings of Jesus, when he counseled the rich 
 young man to give up all his possessions and 
 become his follower. 
 
 If we have firmly determined to sacrifice all, 
 if necessary, for Truth, very often we shall not 
 be called upon to make the sacrifice; and it is 
 an immense help toward healing to have this 
 point settled in the patient's mind, so that he 
 will not acquire the habit of measuring a bene- 
 fit received by the money paid out, but will 
 have his mind at rest upon this question, that 
 he may be free to attend to lines of thought 
 which are beneficial instead of detrimental. 
 We are by no means so ready to be healed by 
 Spirit, if we are all the time judging and
 
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 examining results with the critical disposition 
 of mortal calculation. The thing to do, is to 
 make ready to surrender our all to Spirit, and 
 thus be the better prepared to receive the gifts 
 of Spirit. 
 
 A student who is really interested in his 
 studies does not long for his school-days to 
 cease. If he could in any way manage it, he 
 would be glad to spend his time and money to 
 go on in school and college indefinitely, and so 
 in the case of the person who loves music. 
 Likewise, a patient, if he loves the truth for its 
 own sake, will not be in a hurry to get through 
 with his practitioner, if the practitioner is help- 
 ing him to a higher understanding of Truth. 
 A patient who is not anxious to get out from 
 under his practitioner's care at the earliest pos- 
 sible moment, for the sake of saving time and 
 money, but who takes such a mental attitude 
 that he is always looking for an opportunity to 
 learn more of Truth, for which he is as glad to 
 make return as is the average person for the 
 theater or the excursion, is certain to have 
 healing and all other needed good added unto 
 him. 
 
 There are some who come into a partial
 
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 understanding of Science, but who say to them- 
 selves or others that they are not ready to 
 believe until they have had a sign in demon- 
 stration of the truth by being healed, notwith- 
 standing that they know of plenty of signs 
 which have been given in the healing of other 
 people. If a person makes the receiving of a 
 sign the condition of his believing, he seldom 
 gets it. The reason evidently is, that those who 
 would test Truth by outward signs, wish to 
 walk by sight, instead of walking by faith or 
 understanding. They have not surrendered 
 self, or the carnal mind, which wants to test 
 everything by sense testimony. Self, or carnal 
 mind, is prone to set itself up as a judge, and 
 say to Science: "Come now, pass in review 
 before me, and show your works. If they are 
 satisfactory, I will believe you." But Science 
 may not be reviewed by mortal mind in this 
 fashion. It demands rather that mortal mind, 
 instead of setting itself up to judge, shall com- 
 pletely humble itself, and say: "I am not fit 
 or worthy to know or judge anything." 
 
 Several times, people came to Jesus asking 
 for signs in order that they might believe. 
 Jesus gave plenty of signs to those who did
 
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 not ask for them; but to people who did ask 
 for them he said : "An evil and adulterous gen- 
 eration seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no 
 sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet 
 Jonas." The sign of the prophet Jonas, as 
 given in the Bible story, was this: Jonas was 
 commanded of the Spirit to go to a certain 
 place and do a certain work. Jonas did not 
 respond to the summons obediently, but rather 
 took ship to go in exactly the opposite direc- 
 tion. He was thrown into the sea, swallowed 
 by a whale, and carried back to where he 
 started from, and was told to do that which 
 Spirit commanded. So it will be with every 
 mortal man. In the end he will be obliged to 
 do that which Truth demands of him; there- 
 fore the sooner he does it, the better for him. 
 Jesus did give to doubting Thomas a sign ; but, 
 when Thomas expressed his belief because of 
 the sign, Jesus rebuked him, saying: "Thomas, 
 because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed : 
 blessed are they that have not seen, and yet 
 have believed." 
 
 Many people, when they are taking treat- 
 ment, make the mistake of saying to them- 
 selves or others : "Now I will take treatment so
 
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 many days, or so many weeks, and then, if I 
 am not healed, I will stop." This is another 
 attempt of the carnal mind (self) to set limits 
 and make conditions for Truth, while Truth 
 demands that the carnal mind shall completely 
 humble itself. Said Jesus: "It is not for you 
 to know the times or the seasons, which the 
 Father hath put in his own power." And 
 again he said: "In such an hour as ye think 
 not the Son of man cometh." If we did not 
 set ourselves up to dictate times and seasons 
 to Spirit, but in humility were to let Spirit 
 have its own way, our mental attitude would 
 be such that we would be healed in days, in- 
 stead of the weeks consumed under the condi- 
 tions which we have prescribed. The true 
 mental attitude is this: "Not my will, but 
 thine, be done." 
 
 Patients whose healing is somewhat delayed, 
 are often tempted to set themselves up to 
 judge the work of Spirit by comparing their 
 own case with that of some they know who 
 have been healed much more quickly. This 
 disposition is thoroughly rebuked by Jesus in 
 the parable given us in the twentieth chapter 
 of Matthew. All that Christ, Truth, can
 
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 bestow upon any person is understanding, 
 plenty, holiness, healing, and joy in the Spirit. 
 These are symbolized in the parable by the 
 "penny." It is not for us to complain whether 
 we are required to work for these one hour or 
 twelve hours, twelve days or twelve months. 
 It is our business simply to follow in the way 
 and be faithful. 
 
 Neither should we be envious or attempt to 
 judge the situation by the case of those who 
 are healed more quickly than are we. Not in- 
 frequently those who are speedily healed do 
 not acquire so clear an understanding of the 
 truth of Science, and if our fuller understand- 
 ing must come in advance of the healing, we 
 need not complain, but rather rejoice that by 
 any expenditure of time and effort it may be 
 attained. Impatience and haste are great 
 detriments to healing. Many times it is not 
 realized until after the patient has consciously 
 acquired and assimilated an entirely new un- 
 derstanding of life and health. It was so in 
 the writer's case. During many weary weeks 
 he got no apparent benefit from treatment, 
 until he came unto the understanding and ac- 
 ceptance of Christian Science as Jesus taught
 
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 and practiced it. After he gained this under- 
 standing, his healing was rapid and thorough. 
 
 St. Paul tells us: "Be not conformed to this 
 world : but be ye transformed by the renewing 
 of your mind, that ye may prove what is that 
 good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of 
 God." It is only because we are in a false sense 
 of ourselves that we seem to be sick, and we 
 have to be transformed out of this false mind, 
 which conforms to this world's way of thinking, 
 into the Mind of Spirit, which is the Mind of 
 health, joy, strength, peace, and life eternal. 
 To accomplish this transformation is the great- 
 est, most important, and most beneficent task 
 that any human being ever did or ever can 
 undertake; and to attain this transformation 
 in understanding and realization often requires 
 weeks, sometimes months. Suppose it does. 
 Should we not be as willing to spend all the 
 time necessary to gain the understanding of 
 the Science of eternal life, and to gain per- 
 manently our health in the process, as to spend 
 much money and months of time to learn the 
 science of algebra, or astronomy, or chemistry? 
 
 The Bible contains many exhortations to be 
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 healed by Spirit, God. Let us read and heed 
 the following as a single example: "For we 
 know that the whole creation groaneth and 
 travaileth in pain together until now. And 
 not only they, but ourselves also, which have 
 the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves 
 groan within ourselves, waiting for the adop- 
 tion, to wit, the redemption of our body. For 
 we are saved by hope ; but hope that is seen is 
 not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he 
 yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see 
 not, then do we with patience wait for it." 
 
 Patients often unconsciously maintain a 
 spirit of self-righteousness, which acts very 
 much to their own detriment. They may say, 
 "I have done, as nearly as I could, what the 
 practitioner told me, I have paid for my treat- 
 ment, and I have tried earnestly to avoid com- 
 mitting sin. I do not see why I am not healed." 
 If the patient can truthfully make such an 
 assertion, then perchance but one thing is lack- 
 ing, namely, self-surrender through love. 
 Without love, we do all these things in a cal- 
 culating spirit, in a spirit of bargaining, saying 
 to ourselves that because we have done such 
 and such things, therefore we have a right to
 
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 expect such and such things in return. But 
 love never calculates, never bargains. A lover 
 bestows time and gifts freely upon his friend, 
 looking for nothing in return except her love, 
 and is continually seeking other ways in which 
 he may serve and please. He does not calcu- 
 late and bargain with her, even in his own 
 thought. Because he approaches her in this 
 way, his friend, though reserved and hesitant 
 at first, at length comes to the point where she 
 is ready to bestow upon him her unreserved 
 affection. 
 
 So if we seek the truth, not because we are 
 looking for what it will bestow, but because 
 we really love it for its own sake and are anx- 
 ious to spend time and money in acquiring it 
 and serving it, then its riches speedily become 
 our possession. The proper way to seek the 
 truth may be expressed in the following para- 
 phrase: I take thee for better, for worse; for 
 richer, for poorer; in sickness and in health; 
 in prosperity and adversity; to love and to 
 cherish, to have and to hold forever ; and upon 
 thee I bestow all my worldly goods. Truth, 
 thus sought, will not long withhold her bless- 
 ings.
 
 TRUSTING GOD 
 
 Except in so far as it prevents fear and 
 worry, which is much, if actually accom- 
 plished, it does not do very much good to 
 blindly trust our mortal affairs to God, on the 
 supposition that He orders them and will take 
 care of them. God does not order mortal 
 affairs; for mortal affairs are only a mistaken 
 sense of things. God and His work, and all 
 affairs that He orders, are immortal. God, 
 being immortal, does not make or order any- 
 thing mortal. 
 
 Suppose one had problems in mathematics 
 to work, and should say: "Well, I will trust 
 the principle of mathematics to work out these 
 problems." It is true, that such problems can 
 only be worked out by the principle of mathe- 
 matics ; yet the person desiring the solution of 
 a problem has something to do in the matter. 
 He must understand mathematics, and apply 
 that understanding, in order to solve his prob- 
 lem; or he must have his problems solved by 
 
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 someone else who understands mathematics, 
 and will apply that understanding for him. 
 
 Likewise, in order to overcome ills, a man 
 must understand God and consciously apply 
 his understanding in order to overcome these 
 ills; or he must have them overcome for him 
 by someone else who understands God, and 
 will apply that understanding in his behalf, 
 else the ills will not be overcome. No amount 
 of blind trust will remove them; neither will 
 they be removed by prayers or petitions to a 
 supposed God, who is supposed to have estab- 
 lished these ills, waiting for someone to pray 
 to Him before He will remove them. There is 
 no such God. 
 
 Christian Science teaches us how to under- 
 stand God ; and how to apply our understand- 
 ing to the present overcoming of sin, disease, 
 discord, and poverty; and, sometime, either in 
 this or some future stage of growth, our in- 
 creased understanding of God will enable us to 
 permanently overcome our sense of materiality 
 and death. 
 
 The fact that men use the laws of mathe- 
 matics for the solution of many problems shows 
 that they are entirely sure that the correct
 
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 application of these laws will bring correct 
 and useful results, and they evidence their 
 trust in these laws by learning them and using 
 them intelligently; not by relying on them 
 while yet remaining in ignorance of them. 
 
 The trust in God which is effectual in re- 
 sults, requires not only a thorough compre- 
 hension and detailed knowledge of the laws of 
 God, but a practically available knowledge of 
 them. To illustrate: Before a boy can learn 
 the multiplication table to any purpose, such 
 expressions as: "Three times four equals 
 twelve," "Five times six equals thirty," and so 
 on, must be illustrated to him, so that he 
 clearly understands their meaning. Then he 
 must commit to memory these expressions ar- 
 ranged in tables. This requires much close 
 application, much concentration of thought, 
 and much repetition and drill on his part; but 
 even after he has mastered the tables so that 
 he can recite them glibly, he still lacks a 
 knowledge of them that can be put to much 
 practical use. For instance, suppose the boy is 
 given a problem, to multiply 465 by 23. When 
 he is confronted by the demand that he multi- 
 ply five by three, he may not know the result,
 
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 except as he has learned it by rote in the table ; 
 so he must go through a process, as follows: 
 "Three times one are three, three times two are 
 six, etc.," until he reaches "three times five are 
 fifteen." By this process, he is able to reach 
 the truth he seeks ; but he has not yet acquired 
 independent knowledge of it. 
 
 Suppose that, at the point where the boy 
 knows his addition, subtraction and multipli- 
 cation tables by rote, he is sent to the market 
 to buy six oranges at three cents each, and with 
 a quarter of a dollar to pay for them; and 
 suppose the clerk who makes the change is 
 inclined to be dishonest, and gives the boy four 
 cents in change, instead of seven. The boy, 
 not being familiar with the mathematical rea- 
 soning involved, is likely to be confused by the 
 situation. He indistinctly perceives that he 
 has not been given enough change, and yet his 
 knowledge of the facts is not instant and ready - 
 on-damand. He timidly suggests to the clerk 
 that he has not been given the right change, 
 and the clerk, assuming a bold air, replies: 
 "Yes, your change is all right." "But, but ", 
 ventures the boy. "Run along, I tell you; 
 your change is all right," blusters the clerk,
 
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 and, not being sufficiently sure of his ground to 
 make a stand, the boy goes away defrauded. 
 If the boy had acquired an independent and 
 instantaneous command of the problem, then, 
 when the clerk undertook to cheat him, a look 
 of surprise would instantly and automatically 
 have come into his face, and that, in all prob- 
 ability, would have shown the clerk that his 
 purpose to defraud was useless, and he would 
 have said: "Oh, excuse me, I did not give you 
 the right change." But if the clerk had tried 
 to hold his ground, with what absolute and 
 positive assurance would the boy have claimed 
 his right! He would have stood for his due 
 until he got it. An instantly available knowl- 
 edge of the truth would have protected him 
 against the imposition. 
 
 So, too, when we have learned what the laws 
 of God are, and then have so thoroughly drilled 
 them into our consciousness by meditation, dec- 
 laration, and application, that, when any sug- 
 gestion from within or without contrary to 
 those laws rises in our experience, we are in- 
 stantly and automatically surprised that there 
 should be even a presumption that any thought 
 or circumstance could successfully assert or
 
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 carry through anything in thought or experi- 
 ence contrary to the laws of God, then we are 
 protected against suffering and loss, as we 
 never can be by any degree of knowledge less 
 thoroughly assimilated in consciousness. 
 
 It is therefore often useful for a person to 
 declare and endeavor to realize, many times 
 per day, that love, joy, peace, and confidence 
 in good are laws of God, and therefore of our 
 being ; that whenever we tolerate fear, anxiety, 
 worry, doubt, or grief, we are breaking the 
 law, and living a lie: that harmony, health, 
 strength, action, life, express the laws of God, 
 and that whenever we tolerate, without pro- 
 test, thoughts or feelings of sickness, pain, 
 weakness, inaction, or death, we are breaking 
 the law, and living a lie. He who thus drills 
 right thoughts into his consciousness, until 
 they are brought into the very forefront of 
 thought, and so cannot be forgotten when they 
 are needed, and who orders his course in ac- 
 cordance with divine law, will be subject to 
 very little suffering, either mental or physical, 
 and to very little loss in any way.
 
 REJOICING IN TRIBULATION 
 
 A Christian man once said to a friend: "I 
 do not believe that there is anyone in this city 
 who feels richer than I do, today." "Why," 
 the friend inquired, "what makes you feel that 
 way?" "My feeling arises in connection with 
 a financial difficulty," was the reply. "My 
 rent has not been paid for the last two 
 months." "I do not see how you can feel rich 
 over that," said the surprised friend; "I should 
 think that you would feel quite the contrary." 
 "Yes," answered the man, "I supposed you 
 would think so. I know that you have been 
 worrying over the condition of your business 
 affairs, and that is why I made this remark to 
 you, with the purpose of explaining my rea- 
 sons for feeling rich under the circumstances 
 that I have named, although I certainly would 
 avoid debt when possible, and I am not ignor- 
 ing the rights of the landlord, of which I shall 
 speak later." Then the speaker went on talk- 
 ing, somewhat as follows : 
 
 In the Scriptures, we are exhorted to become 
 "rich toward God," to "lay up for ourselves 
 
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 treasures in heaven," and to "seek first the 
 kingdom of God, and His righteousness." The 
 Bible gives us to understand that the only true 
 riches are spiritual riches, riches of conscious- 
 ness, which are to be gained from God alone. 
 All men are seeking what they call "happi- 
 ness;" but few know in what it really consists, 
 or how to find it. Happiness can be nothing 
 else than desirable states of consciousness ; and 
 the only desirable states of consciousness, on 
 which it is possible to gain a lasting hold, are 
 those which are based upon the realization of 
 God and His manifestation in the mentalities 
 of men. God is the only creator, the only 
 power, the only governor, the only law-maker. 
 God is everywhere present, and, according to 
 His nature, is always manifest as love, joy, 
 and peace. Hence, love, joy, and peace, are 
 the law of the universe, the law of being, the 
 law of every man's mentality. When, there- 
 fore, a man realizes love, joy and peace as pro- 
 ceeding from God, and as being based upon 
 Him, rather than as proceeding from material 
 things or human beings, he is truly living ; but 
 when a man entertains fear, doubt, grief, anx- 
 iety, foreboding, or any mental state contrary
 
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 to love, joy, peace, and confidence in good, he 
 is breaking the law of his being, and is living 
 a lie ; that is, he really is not living at all, since 
 false life is not life. There is no actual life 
 which is not a manifestation of God, which 
 does not express love, peace, and joy. Any 
 other seeming life is only a counterfeit, an 
 appearance which is not real. If we would 
 really live, we must manifest or reflect God. 
 
 Love, joy and peace which we think we have 
 because of a hold upon certain material pos- 
 sessions, or because of relations socially agree- 
 able, though non-spiritual, with certain people, 
 are not the genuine article; they are counter- 
 feit ; they rest upon the wrong foundation. But 
 love, joy, and peace, which we know to be 
 based upon God, and which we hold because 
 we are conscious of right relations with Him, 
 these are the desirable states of consciousness 
 which constitute the only true riches. Such 
 riches are "the pearl of grtat price," and, to 
 gain them, it is worth a man's while to part 
 with everything else that he has, if necessary. 
 
 It is the habit of most people to seek for 
 love, joy, and peace from outward circum- 
 stances and from people, and not from God.
 
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 Humanly speaking, men do not come natu- 
 rally by spiritual riches any more than they 
 come naturally by mathematics or a musical 
 education. The true riches have to be labo- 
 riously gained, just as every thing worth having 
 in this human world has to be gained. Indeed, 
 it is as unnatural for the carnal man to live 
 in spiritual consciousness, and thus to be 
 spiritually rich, as it is for him to live in water. 
 Men can learn to support themselves in water, 
 and to live in water a considerable portion of 
 the time; and likewise, they can learn to live 
 in Spirit a great deal of the time, and to enjoy 
 themselves in spiritual life, independently, for 
 the most part, of what is going on in matter or 
 among people. The following illustration may 
 help us to understand more clearly the process 
 which we must go through in learning to live 
 the spiritual life, and thus to be truly rich. 
 
 Suppose a boy has set his heart upon learn- 
 ing to swim. He will do well to commence 
 practicing in comparatively shallow water. 
 For a time, he should remain where he can put 
 his feet down and touch bottom, at any time 
 that he desires, without being over his head. 
 But he will never be satisfied with himself as
 
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 a swimmer until he has attained the ability to 
 go out into deep water, and remain there an 
 hour at a time. He should not go into deep 
 water too soon; but when he finds himself 
 swimming in deep water, he does not lament, 
 but rejoices. After remaining out of touch 
 with the ground for a time, supported by the 
 water only, he returns to land ; but, even while 
 living on land, he can have the satisfaction of 
 knowing that he is a swimmer worthy of the 
 name. To remain such, he must, of course, 
 spend considerable time in the water and keep 
 in practice. 
 
 A man who sets out to attain life in and of 
 the Spirit cannot learn to support himself in 
 spiritual consciousness all at once, any more 
 than he can learn to swim all at once. He must 
 begin by learning to depend on Spirit some- 
 what, a little more each week and month that 
 passes, and to depend correspondingly less and 
 less upon things and upon people for his hap- 
 piness. Thus, as he grows spiritually, the time 
 will come when he can maintain peace and joy 
 in consciousness with practically no material 
 means of support in sight; and when a person 
 of any considerable length of experience in the
 
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 Christian life finds himself in such a situation, 
 instead of being anxious, grieved, or fright- 
 ened about it, he should simply say to himself : 
 "The material foundations for peace, joy, and 
 confidence, on which I have been accustomed 
 to depend, are now, for the time being, out of 
 my reach; I am in the deep water of Spirit. 
 I wonder if, now, I cannot so depend upon 
 Spirit, God, that I can maintain confidence, 
 peace, and joy on the basis of my realizing the 
 presence of spiritual good. A man of my re- 
 ligious experience should not look upon this 
 present withdrawal of material support as a 
 calamity, but should regard it as a testing 
 time, by which I may ascertain how strong my 
 confidence in God really is ; and, if I find that 
 I can maintain my hold on joy, with little or 
 no material occasion for joy in sight, but with 
 outward temptations to the contrary, I should 
 rejoice in my present situation, as much as 
 does the boy who has desired to learn to swim, 
 when he finds himself swimming with confi- 
 dence and success in deep water." 
 
 A man can never really know whether he is 
 a good swimmer or not, so long as his feet are 
 on the bottom. Likewise, a man can never
 
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 really know whether he is strong in Spirit, if 
 he has never been tried by having human and 
 material foundations for confidence swept 
 away from him. But after a man has been 
 through such an experience, after he has been 
 in deep water with God, and has found that he 
 can maintain the life of peace and joy in spite 
 of material lack, then he may return again to 
 a condition of material plenty ; but, even when 
 dwelling in the midst of material abundance, 
 much as he did before, he does so with a differ- 
 ent consciousness. He knows that he can live 
 by the Spirit, if necessary, as he did not know 
 before. He can say with St. Paul: "I have 
 learned both how to abound, and how to suffer 
 lack." 
 
 In the spiritual growth of each one of us, 
 it seems almost necessary that, at some time, 
 we shall be put through a testing time; and, 
 usually, the testing time comes. If we measure 
 up to the test, if, instead of whining, lament- 
 ing, and being afraid, we fall back on our 
 knowledge and realization of God and His 
 manifestations, and determine to be happy 
 anyway, even more so because the time for us 
 to be worthy to be tested has arrived, then it
 
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 invariably happens that, before very long, the 
 usual supply of human comforts are restored to 
 us; but if we do not prove that we can live 
 in peace and joy alone with God, we will be 
 forced to endure a continuance of material 
 lack, or recurring experiences of it, until we do 
 learn the spiritual lesson of being happy in 
 spiritual possessions only. There seems to be 
 no way of escaping such a testing time ; and it 
 is probably essential to our spiritual growth 
 that there should be no way of escape, until we 
 have learned the requisite lesson. Thus may 
 we learn the meaning of St. Paul's experience 
 of "rejoicing in tribulation." 
 
 It is from a standpoint of realization such 
 as this, to a large extent, that the withdrawal 
 of one's material means of supply can be to 
 him a distinct occasion for feeling rich, rich in 
 the realization of spiritual good, which con- 
 stitutes the only true riches. 
 
 But the question may be raised: "How 
 about the landlord, from whom the rent was 
 being withheld? Suppose that he might be 
 needing it. What is to be said from his point 
 of view?" The reply is that, of course, his 
 tenant should pay the rent, if he could, and,
 
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 without doubt, would do so. If he could not, it 
 would not help the situation in the least for 
 him to worry, fret, or be afraid; if anything, 
 for him to lapse into such a state of mind, 
 would becloud his intelligence, sap his 
 strength, and thus tend to prevent his gaining 
 the means to pay the rent. 
 
 "But does God provide a testing time for 
 the real, spiritual advantage of one of His 
 children at the expense of what seems like the 
 just due of another?" No, "God is no re- 
 specter of persons." "God is light, and in 
 Him is no darkness at all." God creates only 
 absolute good, and dwells in the consciousness 
 of nothing but absolute good. He is immortal, 
 and does not create His opposite. He neither 
 creates nor orders material affairs. Men are 
 in darkness, and only reach light as they work 
 their way into a consciousness of God. "The 
 natural man receiveth not the things of the 
 spirit of God. . . . ; for they are spirit- 
 ually discerned." If a landlord has sufficiently 
 learned his spiritual lesson respecting the 
 working out of humanity's problem he will not 
 be the one at whose seeming expense the spirit- 
 ual growth of another will be promoted; but,
 
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 if he has not learned to "live in the Spirit and 
 walk in the Spirit," then he, also, needs the 
 experience of being made to suffer material 
 lack, until he, too, wakes up and learns his 
 spiritual lesson. 
 
 Let us try to describe, at its best, the life 
 svhich is merely or mostly human. A boy is 
 born and reared in a good family. He goes 
 to school and college, and is diligent and studi- 
 ous. He keeps the moral law, and lives above 
 reproach among his fellow men. He marries 
 a girl of excellent family, education, character 
 and refinement. They have children who are 
 the admiration of all who know them. Before 
 marrying, the man started in business. He 
 was and is intelligent and capable. From the 
 start, he makes a good living. His debts are 
 always paid on the day they are due. He has 
 a reputation to be proud of in the business 
 world, and is proud of it. Men say of him: 
 ''His word is as good as his bond." He can 
 borrow a reasonable amount of money at any 
 bank, because he is known to be successful and 
 honest and to have accumulated some re- 
 sources. He and the members of his family 
 attend church regularly as a matter of course,
 
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 and support the church liberally. They all 
 move in the most intelligent and refined social 
 circles. 
 
 Now, all of this may be, and sometimes is, 
 what St. John disapprovingly speaks of as, 
 "the pride of life," in the following text: 
 "Love not the world, neither the things that 
 are in the world ; for if any man love the world, 
 the love of the Father is not in him; for all 
 that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and 
 the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, are 
 not of the Father, but of the world. And the 
 world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but 
 he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." 
 The man, whom we have described, would 
 doubtless think of himself, if asked about it, as 
 a godly man ; but he has never closely analyzed 
 his own thought. As a matter of fact, so far 
 as he thinks about it at all, he has an implicit 
 sense, that he is good, that he is honest and 
 upright, that he is diligent and intelligent, that 
 he has made a business and social position for 
 himself, that he has accumulated property and 
 made a place in the world, that he is secure in 
 the good place which he has made. If so, his 
 sense of security, peace and joy all rest on a
 
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 false, material, and human foundation, which, 
 very likely, may have to be swept from under 
 his feet in order that he may wake up to what 
 is the true foundation for security and joy, 
 namely, the knowledge of Spirit, God, and not 
 material goods and the good opinion of men. 
 The man has not yet learned the significance 
 of the words of Jesus: "Why callest thou me 
 good? There is none good, save one, that is 
 God." He has not yet taken to heart the 
 scripture which says: "Trust in the Lord 
 with all thy heart, and lean not to thine own 
 understanding; but in all thy ways acknowl- 
 edge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." 
 
 But after such a man has successfully ex- 
 perienced his testing time (and fortunate is he 
 who promptly recognizes the opportunity for 
 a test, and its significance, when it comes) , and 
 has proved that he can live in joy without any 
 special amount of worldly goods or human 
 approval, then, very likely, all the outward 
 possessions that he had before will be given 
 back to him in multiplied measure ; but let him 
 beware of again allowing his heart to trust in 
 his material riches. Let him continue to be 
 diligent to "lay up treasures in heaven (in
 
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 spiritual consciousness) where moth and rust 
 do not corrupt, and where thieves do not break 
 through and steal." 
 
 EVIL HATH NO ORIGIN 
 
 God, the infinite Good, created all that is, 
 and Good never created its opposite, any more 
 than light could create darkness. Therefore 
 evil is not created, and does not belong to 
 reality. It is an appearance without founda- 
 tion in fact ; therefore an illusion ; therefore no 
 thing, nothing. 
 
 When did truth become a lie? The answer 
 is, Truth did not become a lie. When did evil, 
 illusion, nothing, begin? The answer is, Evil, 
 no thing, nothing, did not begin. 
 
 Philosophizing about the origin of nothing 
 has consumed such an amount of time and 
 effort that, had they been spent in contempla- 
 tion of the Truth which heals, much more of 
 health and good would have been demon- 
 strated. 
 
 All sins and evils are mistakes. God never 
 makes mistakes. Hence mortal mind makes 
 its own mistakes, and God is not the author of 
 sin or evil.
 
 THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS 
 BY FAITH 
 
 "Righteousness" was formerly spelled 
 "right-wis-ness" (right-wise-ness). It means, 
 fundamentally, a right sense, including right 
 understanding and right feeling. It is first of 
 all a condition of consciousness, and only sec- 
 ondarily a matter of outward conduct. 
 
 "Faith," in the Scriptural sense, is not syn- 
 onomous in meaning with the word "trust." 
 Its meaning is better conveyed in the terms 
 "God-consciousness" or "spiritual discern- 
 ment." In Science and Health (p. 209), Mrs. 
 Eddy says, "Spiritual sense is a conscious, 
 constant capacity to understand God." The 
 phrase, "The righteousness which is by faith," 
 might well be paraphrased by the words, The 
 right sense which is in fact God-consciousness. 
 
 It is impossible to correctly sense anything 
 except as we do so through its qualities, mani- 
 festations, or attributes. For instance, we 
 might hear about gold as a mere name, but we 
 
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 can only sense it through yellowness, hardness, 
 opacity, etc. Likewise, we can hear about God 
 as a name; but if we sense God, we shall only 
 do so as we sense love, joy, peace, strength, 
 harmony, liberty, and the other constant, 
 changeless manifestations of God. In the case 
 of gold, we do not immediately and necessarily 
 sense some of its qualities, such as malleability 
 and ductility, though, as just stated, we cannot 
 fail to sense the qualities yellowness, hardness 
 and opacity, if we sense gold at all. So, in 
 apprehending God, we do not necessarily, at 
 first, sense Him as strength, harmony (health) , 
 liberty, life ; but we cannot apprehend Him at 
 all unless we sense Him as love, joy, and peace. 
 And God is thus felt, if at all, by a direct 
 mental contact. He is as definitely felt men- 
 tally as is a piece of velvet or the petal of a rose 
 physically. We do not get a realization of the 
 God-love, the God- joy, the God-peace, the 
 God-strength, the God-liberty, etc., through 
 things or people, but only inwardly; it is the 
 love, the joy, the peace, the honesty, the truth- 
 fulness, the strength, the harmony, the liberty, 
 the life, which are inwardly sensed as unfailing, 
 changeless attributes of God, that constitute
 
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 "the righteousness which is by faith." The 
 qualities so named which rest on a mortal or 
 material basis are counterfeit and unreliable, 
 and it is worth while to illustrate and examine 
 why this is so. 
 
 Suppose one human being loves another, 
 and then that other dies or removes to a dis- 
 tance. Immediately, the joy of human love 
 largely changes to, or is replaced by, grief. If 
 the one loved does not reciprocate, but bestows 
 his love on a third party, then human love may 
 become the occasion of jealousy. If the one 
 loved becomes seriously ill, human love occa- 
 sions fear. If the one loved pursues certain 
 lines of action, then human love changes to or 
 is replaced by hatred. But our sense of divine 
 love, if we have it, "never faileth." This is 
 because our possession of this love rests be- 
 tween us and God alone, and He never 
 changes, and we do not need to change in our 
 sense of Him, whatever goes on in the world 
 of matter and people. In a family which had 
 gotten into financial difficulties for the first 
 time, the lady said lamentingly, that it seemed 
 so queer for them to be in such a situation; 
 that in the twenty years of their married life
 
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 there had never before been a time that they 
 could not lie down at night with the thought 
 that they owed no man a dollar, and that she 
 supposed she ought to be thankful for their 
 twenty years of peace instead of mourning 
 over present troubles, since most people had 
 far more. As a matter of fact, her twenty 
 years of peace on a material basis amounted 
 to nothing for true and lasting gain. It was 
 only counterfeit peace. Had it been genuine, 
 the peace which pertains to God-conscious- 
 ness, it would have stood the test in this time 
 of perplexity. Indeed, had the family had the 
 righteousness which is by faith, probably they 
 would have had the wisdom to have avoided 
 this business disaster altogether. 
 
 As a younger man, the author, though en- 
 gaged in religious work, could not understand 
 why the honesty of an irreligious man, who 
 told the truth, kept his promises, and paid his 
 debts, was not just as good as any other hon- 
 esty, and, indeed, why it did not exemplify the 
 only kind of honesty there is. It is now easy 
 to see that the honesty of the world is of "the 
 best policy" type, that it is evolved from ex- 
 perience, or is imitated from the honesty which
 
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 is in the world from a truly religious source. 
 This worldly honesty, though doubtless better 
 than dishonesty, is only counterfeit, and will 
 not endure without breaking the test of hard 
 experience, as does the honesty which is by 
 God-consciousness. 
 
 Christian Science enables one to perceive 
 that there are many professors of Christian 
 faith who, nevertheless, have really little if 
 any of the righteousness which is by faith. 
 They suppose themselves to have it, but are 
 deceived because they do not really understand 
 what faith is, thinking it to be belief in some 
 creed or "scheme of salvation," or "belief in 
 Christ" in a sense different than the under- 
 standing of Christ and the application of his 
 law. Such righteousness does not differ ma- 
 terially from the righteousness of the world, 
 which is on a "natural" basis, and of which 
 St. Paul wrote, "The natural man receiveth 
 not the things of the spirit of God." 
 
 It should not be difficult to discern that the 
 strength, harmony, and liberty of body and 
 mind which are the fruitage of God-conscious- 
 ness, are from a different source, and rest on a 
 different basis than the so-called strength,
 
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 health, and liberty which seem to be conditions 
 of the body itself, when in its normal natural 
 state. These latter are but imitations of the 
 genuine, and do not endure the test of strain 
 and stress. 
 
 The purity which is gained through the ap- 
 prehension of Love is immeasurably stronger 
 to endure temptation than is "natural" purity; 
 indeed, one having a strong realization of 
 faith-purity is scarcely susceptible of being 
 strongly tempted. The prince of this world 
 cometh and findeth nothing in him, in the way 
 of impurity; and so it is in all lines, for him 
 who has thoroughly acquired "the righteous- 
 ness which is by faith." This righteousness, 
 instead of failing in time of difficulty, comes 
 into more vigorous action, and shines with 
 greater brilliance. 
 
 "I counsel thee," says the Revelator, "to buy 
 of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest 
 be rich ; and white raiment that thou mayest be 
 clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness 
 do not appear." He who has "the righteous- 
 ness which is by faith," has this "gold tried 
 in the fire," and does not object to its being 
 fire tested. As a mathematician grows skillful
 
 FAITH-RIGHTEOUSNESS 
 
 by the problems which he works upon and 
 solves, and not by those which he avoids, so the 
 God-conscious man knows that he becomes 
 spiritually and joyfully rich, not by the human 
 difficulties which he avoids, but by those which 
 he faces, works upon, long and hard, if need 
 be, and solves by the knowledge and power 
 of God; and the harder the problem, the 
 greater the joy in working on it, and the 
 greater the gain in solving it. The righteous- 
 ness which is by faith enables a man to regard 
 difficulties, not as an annoyance and a burden, 
 but as a great opportunity. They furnish the 
 fire in which he may refine his gold and so be- 
 come rich indeed. Dealing with them, he "re- 
 joiceth as a strong man to run a race." 
 
 While working on hard situations, the faith- 
 righteous man never thinks of tolerating 
 doubt, fear, foreboding, anger, envy or grief. 
 His feelings are stayed on God and he knows 
 that he is far better off than those who are 
 reposing in worldly ease and worldly har- 
 mony; for "the friendship of the world is en- 
 mity with God," and enmity with spiritual joy. 
 "The kingdom of God consisteth not in meat 
 and drink (and other human riches) , but in
 
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 righteousness (God-consciousness), peace and 
 joy in the Holy Spirit." Says the poet: 
 "One ship sails east, another west, 
 
 By the self -same winds that blow; 
 'Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales, 
 
 That shows us our way to go. 
 Like the winds of the sea on the waves of fate, 
 
 As we voyage on through life, 
 'Tis the set of the soul that decides the goal, 
 
 And not the winds or the strife." 
 
 Most people have too much human pride 
 and too little of what might be termed spirit- 
 ual pride, that attitude which Jesus defined 
 when he said: "If I honor myself, my honor 
 is nothing. It is my Father that honoreth me." 
 He exemplified it, when as a carpenter's son 
 from the despised village of Nazareth, without 
 money and without a home, he stood before the 
 scribes and Pharisees, the rulers of his people, 
 rich, high born, moral in human and ecclesias- 
 tical righteousness, and called them hypocrites 
 and liars to their faces, and told them, "Ye are 
 of your father, the devil, and the lusts of your 
 father, ye will do." Jesus again exemplified 
 the true self-exaltation when he washed his 
 disciples' feet, and said, "He that is greatest
 
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 among you, let him be your servant." In a 
 given company, he that has the most correct 
 and practical knowledge of God outranks all 
 others, regardless of their wealth, "culture," 
 social station, lineage, political or ecclesiastical 
 rank. He may rebuke his worldly superiors if 
 occasion requires, but will not shrink from 
 serving the humblest who may be in need of 
 service. He who has spiritual self-respect 
 (which is, indeed, God-respect) will unhesitat- 
 ingly appeal to the highest court of authority, 
 even to God, when called to the bar of public 
 judgment, and he cannot do less if he would 
 honor the Father whom he represents. A 
 writer in Zion's Herald, as quoted in the Chris- 
 tian Science Journal, truly says: "The one 
 thing greater than human speech is silence. 
 The silence of Christ in the presence of false- 
 hood and detraction was Godlike. In the pres- 
 ence of criticism and exposure, vice can ill 
 afford to close its lips; its hope lies in the 
 witchery and deception of speech. Virtue, on 
 the other hand, can afford to be still, for the 
 reason that there is no wrong to be concealed." 
 Spiritual pride (which is identical with spir- 
 itual humility) may explain its actions for the
 
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 sake of friendship, or for tl;e sake of helping 
 the world at large, or for the sake of maintain- 
 ing unity of action among those working for a 
 common end. 
 
 Human pride glories in a distinguished an- 
 cestry, in wealth, culture, noted worldly 
 achievements, political or ecclesiastical prefer- 
 ment, social eminence, and conventional right- 
 eousness, some of which are well enough, and 
 even desirable in their place; nevertheless the 
 humanly proud might be thrown into a panic 
 at the prospect of financial bankruptcy, while 
 totally indifferent to the fact that they had 
 never been spiritually solvent, had never been 
 prepared to pay to God, on demand, in season 
 or out of season, the unbroken purity, peace 
 and joy in Him which are His constant due, 
 and which every man is spiritually in honor 
 bound to continually exemplify before his fel- 
 low men. The servants of human pride would 
 be ashamed not to appear in what they con- 
 sider suitable dress; yet, on even slight occa- 
 sion, they have been known to expose their 
 mental nakedness, which is made evident in 
 their fretfulness, fear, anger, jealousy, doubt, 
 grief, etc. Human pride is not ashamed of its
 
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 lack of "white raiment," the only true clothing. 
 He who would attain faith-righteousness, 
 must, first of all, perceive the difference be- 
 tween it and "natural" righteousness. After 
 that, the deepening and broadening of the 
 direct, inner sense of mental contact with God 
 is a matter of growth through experience, and 
 especially, perhaps, through trials and difficul- 
 ties. This God-consciousness, coming in little 
 by little, transforms the mentality, gradually 
 crowds out all sin and sickness, and brings the 
 aspiring Christian to a progressive experience 
 in which, more and more, whatever the vicissi- 
 tudes of life, he "rejoices with joy unspeak- 
 able and full of glory." 
 
 "If hazards of false teachings and mistaken 
 ideals multiply, the need of the church is not 
 to rear higher its external defenses but most 
 solemnly to renew its reliance on the invinci- 
 ble and infallible spiritual leadership of the 
 Master who dwells within it. When the pres- 
 ence of Jesus Christ in the church seems less 
 potent for its protection than measures of 
 ecclesiastical authority, the mood cries to 
 heaven for a livelier realization of Jesus 
 Christ." Anon.
 
 DEALING WITH MALPRACTICE 
 
 (A letter to a patient.) 
 
 Dear Friend: 
 
 Your letter of January 15th suggests a 
 subject of large proportions. It suggests the 
 application or use of truth, as made known 
 through Christian Science, in practically deal- 
 ing with and destroying error. It is quite a 
 task to get a clear and comprehensive knowl- 
 edge of truth, yet it is a far more difficult task 
 to learn how to uncover error in all its phases, 
 and how to apply truth wisely, so as to destroy 
 error. Truth is fixed and invariable, being all 
 logically deducible from its Principle, God. 
 Therefore it is possible to gain an exact knowl- 
 edge of truth, and it is comparatively easy for 
 a thoroughly logical mind to do so. But error, 
 the devil, is a liar. It has no principle, and is 
 never logically harmonious with itself, 'except 
 when it suits its own purposes to be so. When 
 we have learned a manifestation of Truth we 
 have learned it, that is all there is to it; but 
 
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 DEALING WITH MALPRACTICE 129 
 
 when we think we have a manifestation of 
 error located and cornered, likely as not, unless 
 wisely handled, the devil will bring forth an- 
 other lie in the place of the one we have de- 
 stroyed, not exactly the same lie, but one just 
 as troublesome, and we may find ourselves, if 
 we are not wise, engaged in the apparently 
 endless process of "chasing the devil around 
 a stump." Because of its false, unstable, 
 changeable character, error is vastly more com- 
 plex, and in a way, harder to get at than truth. 
 If we could learn how to uncover and destroy 
 error as quickly as we can grasp a theoretical 
 knowledge of Science, the whole false sense 
 of the universe would have been destroyed long 
 ago. 
 
 The knowledge of theoretical Christian 
 Science means much, and many attain unto 
 this in large measure; but the knowledge how 
 wisely to uncover and destroy error is also sure 
 to distinguish a successful Christian Scientist 
 from one who is not. Scientists may have a 
 good theoretical understanding of truth, but 
 when they attempt to handle and destroy error, 
 they are likely to simply stir up and multiply
 
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 its manifestations, if they are not "wise as 
 serpents, and harmless as doves." 
 
 Malpractice is wrong thinking, thinking 
 contrary to the Science of Truth. For in- 
 stance, if one should think, "The paper says, 
 'A storm will come tomorrow ;' and I am liable 
 to have rheumatism," this is malpractice, be- 
 cause it is wrong thinking. It attributes power 
 to supposed conditions of weather which are 
 not real, and assumes that something else than 
 God, good, has power over man. Suppose, 
 however, one should think as follows: "The 
 paper says that a storm will come on tomor- 
 row, and mortal mind will be trying to con- 
 vince me that I must have rheumatism as a 
 result; but I know that mortal mind is a liar. 
 It has no power, since God is the only power. 
 Neither it, nor any so-called material condi- 
 tions have control over me, while I abide 'in 
 the secret place of the most High !' God is not 
 the author of rheumatism, and His child can- 
 not be afflicted with it." This is not mental 
 malpractice; it is foreseeing what error will 
 try to assert, and is attempting to destroy the 
 error before it can make its assertion. If the 
 attempt is successful, the error is met.
 
 DOMINION WITHIN 131 
 
 If you see a person who is thinly clad, sitting 
 beside an open window, and think, "I am afraid 
 he will take cold" that is malpractice. But if 
 you think, "Man dwelling in the atmosphere of 
 Truth and Love, which is the only real atmos- 
 phere, cannot take cold, since mortal mind and 
 its conditions have no power over him," this is 
 not malpractice, it is a declaration of truth 
 which is protective and remedial. 
 
 If a superintendent of a Sunday school, who 
 understands both Christian Science and the 
 methods of error, were to transfer a child of 
 Mrs. S. from one class of the Sunday school to 
 another, he might think, from his general 
 knowledge of the ways of evil, that it would 
 be likely to suggest to Mrs. S. that this change 
 was made from some sinister motive, not that 
 he would think of Mrs. S. as more suspicious 
 than most mortals, but he would remember 
 that we are all very human, and still open to 
 suggestions of the common enemy, when off 
 our guard. He would not know positively 
 that evil would make such suggestion to Mrs. 
 S., since it is not sure to observe any uniform 
 procedure; but he would know that it always 
 seems to be on the watch for an opportunity
 
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 to make trouble; and to head off any possible 
 working of this one evil, he would do well to de- 
 clare for the reign of truth and love. He might 
 make some such declaration as follows: "This 
 change is intended for the good of this child, 
 and for the good of all concerned. Error has 
 no power to mislead us or anyone else about 
 this matter or to argue to anyone any misun- 
 derstanding of our motives, or to produce any 
 evil in any way. Only the one Mind can guide 
 and govern." Such a mental declaration may 
 prevent error from sowing seeds of discord, 
 which it otherwise would. The mother might 
 not know the reasons for which the change 
 was made, but the love and right thought ex- 
 pressed mentally in making the argument 
 would protect her thought, so that she would 
 feel that everything was done for the best, 
 whether she understood or not. 
 
 As the result of our mortal habits of 
 thought, we are constantly disposed to fore- 
 bode evil for ourselves and for our neighbors 
 in one way or another. This is all malpractice, 
 and we need to be ever on the guard against 
 it. Sometimes we think along these lines, and 
 know that our thought processes are unscien-
 
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 tific; yet we are tempted to entertain them, or 
 we are too indolent to make the necessary 
 effort to cast them out. This is conscious men- 
 tal malpractice. There are people who de- 
 liberately send out mental suggestions of dis- 
 ease or disaster to others whom they may hate, 
 or who let jealousy against a given person in- 
 flame their consciousness, doing so in the belief 
 that this may bring disease or other disasters 
 on that person. This is malicious mental mal- 
 practice, or malicious animal magnetism. At- 
 tention can not be too strongly called to the 
 fact that malicious malpractice is wholly 
 powerless to harm one living in the active 
 consciousness of protection in divine Mind. 
 
 If there are mistakes in the computations of 
 a set of bank books, these mistakes must be 
 sought out and corrected, and the seeking 
 must continue until they are all corrected. It 
 will not be sufficient to make a general asser- 
 tion that the true result of every possible com- 
 bination of numbers is already established in 
 mathematical law, and trust this general decla- 
 ration to correct the mistakes. In the book- 
 keeping of ordinary daily life, there are many 
 false entries. We know very well that mortal
 
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 mind, error, is constantly arguing, through the 
 consciousness of mortals on every side of 
 us, skepticism, fear, doubt, foreboding, anger, 
 hatred, malice, envy, jealousy, revenge, agnos- 
 ticism, materiality, sensuality, intemperance, 
 dishonesty, falsehood, hypnotism, thought 
 transference, spiritualism, etc. all these errors 
 spring up in the minds of mortals, because the 
 seed is sown there by error, the one evil. All 
 these are manifestations of error, and are un- 
 real, but their unreality is to be proven. They 
 are mistakes in mortal mind, which must be 
 corrected, and for this purpose it is often not 
 sufficient to make a general declaration that 
 God is good, and that He made all that was 
 made, and that there can be no evil. When this 
 declaration can be made clearly enough to de- 
 stroy the manifestations of error, well and 
 good. But if not, then those manifestations 
 must be dealt with and met specifically. Hence, 
 a well instructed Christian Scientist may make 
 such daily declarations of the truth of being as 
 will cover the specific possibilities of error's 
 claim and activity; and when all mankind 
 begin to meet these errors daily with realiza-
 
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 tions and declarations of truth, they will soon 
 cease to be manifested. 
 
 There are segregations of error which may 
 be named "materia medica," false theology, 
 etc. Error is liable to try to attack a Scientist, 
 or a person working into Science, through one 
 or more of these segregations of error as a 
 channel. Hence, a Scientist may wisely deal 
 with all these claims in his daily declarations of 
 truth. 
 
 Note. This article is not presented as a 
 complete discussion of the subject of "Dealing 
 with Malpractice." It is merely what it pur- 
 ports to be; some thoughts on the subject pre- 
 sented in a letter to a patient. 
 
 "To forbid a man in advance to speak, on the 
 assumption that he may say something illegal, 
 endangers the republic." Harris Weinstock. 
 
 "Growth is restricted by forcing humanity 
 out of the proper channels for development or 
 by holding it in fetters." Mary Baker Eddy, 
 in Miscellaneous Writings, page 359.
 
 GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS VERSUS 
 SUB-CONSCIOUSNESS 
 
 The analysis of the errors with which all 
 human beings have to deal is often of great 
 practical importance, since it enables us the 
 more intelligently to apply our knowledge of 
 God in their correction. As Mrs. Eddy says 
 in Science and Health (p. 252) , "A knowledge 
 of error and its operations must precede that 
 understanding of truth which destroys error." 
 
 The organs of the human body are not self- 
 controlled. If they were, the organs of a 
 corpse would be self-acting. It is also evident, 
 that the organs of the body are not under the 
 control of the conscious mind ; for the beating 
 of the heart, the digestion of food, and other 
 so-called involuntary bodily processes go on 
 without any seeming dependence upon our 
 conscious mentality. Furthermore, it is clear 
 to students of Christian Science, that God does 
 not create nor directly or consciously attend to 
 the activities of the material body. Neverthe- 
 
 Mrs. Eddy's sense of sub-conscious mortal mind is set 
 forth in "Science and Health," near the top of page 659, in 
 her reference to "elementary, latent error, the source of all 
 error's visible forms." 
 
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 SUB-CONSCIOUSNESS 137 
 
 less the activities of the bodily organs evidence 
 intelligence and plan of an intricate and com- 
 plex order. Since this intelligence is evidently 
 not an expression of the divine consciousness 
 (though Christian Scientists know it to be a 
 counterfeit of God-intelligence), and since it 
 is not conscious human intelligence, the intelli- 
 gence which controls the bodily organs and 
 functions is spoken of by students of the human 
 mind as "sub-consciousness," indicating that 
 its activities are beneath the activity or observa- 
 tion of the conscious mind. 
 
 The so-called sub-conscious mind is a part 
 of the make-up of every human being, though 
 most human beings give little or no thought 
 to its existence, or to the nature and laws of 
 its activity on the human plane. Further- 
 more, it has been discovered that the sub- 
 conscious mind gradually takes its character 
 from the activity of the conscious mind. The 
 conscious mind is, as it were, a feeder of the 
 sub-consciousness, which accumulates and 
 stores up that which it is fed; thus it becomes 
 the seat of what is called "habit," along many 
 different lines. There is an eastern proverb, 
 said to be thousands of years old, which reads,
 
 138 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 "If a man commits a sin, let him not do it 
 again ; let him not delight in it ; the accumula- 
 tion of evil is painful." 
 
 It is fair to say, that the sub-consciousness 
 of a young child is largely formed and de- 
 termined by the belief of inheritance from hu- 
 man ancestors, and by pre-natal influences of 
 the mother's thought and feeling. As the child 
 grows older, its own conscious mental activity, 
 and its mental environment, enter more and 
 more largely into the shaping of its sub-con- 
 sciousness. Accordingly, it is apparent that 
 the sub-consciousness of an adult is partly the 
 result of the belief of inheritance, partly the 
 result of mental environment, and largely the 
 result of daily conscious activity. 
 
 If the conscious mind to a large extent en- 
 tertains fear, anxiety, doubt, grief, discourage- 
 ment, lust, greed, hatred, malice, envy, jeal- 
 ousy, revenge, pride, and the like, the sub- 
 consciousness becomes habitually discordant, 
 and, if so, sooner or later this discord is mani- 
 fest in the disease of one or more of the bodily 
 organs or functions which it controls. 
 
 Let us examine this mental process a little
 
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 more carefully. Frequently the conscious 
 mind becomes discordant over business or 
 social experiences, or over some condition of 
 ill-health. This gradually makes the sub-con- 
 sciousness discordant, which, in turn, manifests 
 itself in disease of the body, and in increased 
 measure, if disease was the original occasion of 
 discord. As a result of this added sense of dis- 
 ease, the conscious mind takes on an increased 
 sense of fear, anxiety, discouragement, grief, 
 etc. This is communicated to the sub-conscious- 
 ness, thus making it still more discordant, and 
 such a mental descent once entered upon, noth- 
 ing but extreme suffering and death can result, 
 unless a way is found to interrupt its course. 
 
 We learn in Christian Science, that the one 
 sure and legitimate way of stopping this de- 
 structive mental program is to lay hold on 
 God, to govern the feelings according to 
 Love, and thus escape from the influence and 
 control of outward or corporeal suggestions 
 of discord. We may not be able to do this all 
 at once, but, with a clear understanding of 
 spiritual truth and firm determination, we can 
 do a great deal in the right direction from the
 
 140 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 very start, and can soon gain a complete vic- 
 tory. Said Paul, "I can do all things through 
 Christ which strengtheneth me." 
 
 It may be well to consider somewhat in de- 
 tail how we may make a beginning of right 
 activity. First of all, we must be thoroughly 
 convinced that God is the only Cause and 
 Creator, hence the only power; then that any- 
 thing which seems to occur as the result of any 
 other so-called power cannot be legitimate or 
 real; and that the human mind can have no 
 true or real thoughts or feelings which it does 
 not receive from God. Said Christ Jesus: 
 "The son can do (think or feel) nothing of 
 himself ; but whatsoever he seeth the Father do 
 (think or feel), that doeth the son likewise." 
 If we clearly perceive and accept this fact, we 
 will determine not to allow ourselves to feel 
 contrary to the nature of God, since, in doing 
 so, we would manifestly be living (feeling) a 
 lie. 
 
 To illustrate, suppose a person were to find 
 himself seriously ill. At once the disposition 
 to fear and to worry asserts itself, but he who 
 has awakened to the truth of being reminds 
 himself that he has accepted God as the only
 
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 power. In God there is no reason for fear, 
 hence the apparent physical reasons for it are 
 really no reasons at all, and are not to be 
 allowed to govern one, even though he does 
 feel sick. He may for the present be unable 
 to avoid a sense of weakness and pain, though 
 he valiantly contends against them ; but, in any 
 case, he will not give place to fear. Such con- 
 scious activity, based on divine Love, will 
 tend strongly to prevent the development of 
 disease, and if the realization of spiritual 
 Truth, its law and power, is sufficiently clear, 
 the disease will be destroyed. 
 
 In any case, the giving of false suggestions 
 to the sub-consciousness is avoided, and the 
 consequent aggravation of the disease is obvi- 
 ated. Such mental procedure on the part of 
 the Christian Scientist, if it is not sufficient, 
 together with other lines of scientific thought 
 and feeling that he may be holding, to cure 
 him, will at least aid in his recovery, and will 
 clear the way for effective reception of the 
 work being done for him by a brother Sci- 
 entist. 
 
 Suppose a near relative or friend has passed 
 away. There is a strong "natural" impulsion
 
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 to grief, but the person who has adopted this 
 new line of activity will at once remember that 
 in God there is no reason for grief, and having 
 accepted this fact he will not be deceived by 
 appearances, or by what human sense claims 
 to be a reason. Therefore he will not entertain 
 grief. Suppose, to human sense, a near one 
 should prove "unfaithful." Then comes the 
 "natural" impulsion to jealousy, anger, grief, 
 hatred, revenge, and the like. Again we are 
 reminded that in God there is no reason for 
 any of these feelings, and hence we will not 
 entertain them. We may thus rule out of con- 
 sciousness all forms of emotional discord, which 
 would ordinarily be incident to business per- 
 plexities or reverses, to social relations, to 
 family affairs, or even to the conditions of 
 bodily health. 
 
 The person who, by thus accepting God as 
 the only ground of reality, succeeds in keeping 
 emotional discord out of consciousness, will 
 cease to contribute the seeds of discord to his 
 sub-conscious mind, and the discordant phases 
 of the sub-conscious mind, being no longer fed, 
 soon starve to death. As discordant sub-con- 
 sciousness is thus weakened more and more, to
 
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 the vanishing point, it gradually, and often 
 very rapidly, loses its seeming power to bring 
 forth ills in the body ; and, for that reason in 
 part, there is a more or less rapid recovery of 
 health, which, however, is mainly due to a 
 more positive reason, to be next discussed. 
 
 Many students of Christian Science find 
 themselves, at the start, obliged to accept God 
 as the working Principle, purely on the basis 
 of revelation in the Bible and on the basis of 
 logic, since they have little feeling of or for 
 God. But, if they really trust the validity of 
 their logic, and accept God as the only reason, 
 and on that basis rule out discordant emotions 
 in the manner we have described, they soon find 
 themselves loving the Principle, the God, 
 whom they prove in daily experience to be 
 their helper in casting out the ill feelings which 
 formerly vexed them; and, with increasing 
 experience, this sense of love grows apace. 
 Moreover, following this course, they soon find 
 themselves maintaining an uninterrupted peace 
 of mind, in a manner before unknown. As the 
 conviction dawns upon them that, through reli- 
 ance on God as the only explanation of reality, 
 they can really hold their peace against various
 
 144 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 human temptations to discord, they find them- 
 selves experiencing a sense of power, of self 
 government and of joy which they had not 
 known before. The peace, joy, and love, which 
 come into their experience when God is thus 
 proven to be their Helper, constitute "gold 
 tried in the fire," and "the riches of the king- 
 dom of heaven." 
 
 Through continuous reliance upon God, the 
 thought and feeling of God come more and 
 more into the forefront of consciousness, until 
 there is scarcely a moment of the day when 
 one does not have a sense of the divine pres- 
 ence. In proportion as the sub-consciousness, 
 being starved and depleted, loses its control 
 over the body, in the same proportion the God- 
 consciousness is developed, and the human 
 sense of body comes under the control of this 
 right sense, consciousness of Truth and Love, 
 and so begins to reflect harmony instead of dis- 
 cord, and this process goes on until the healing 
 is complete. A human being who has been 
 thus freed from sub-conscious discord, and 
 whose God-consciousness has been highly de- 
 veloped, is largely immune from harm by men- 
 tal malpractice from others, even without much
 
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 special work for protection; but those who 
 have not attained a firm and unbroken hold 
 upon God need more frequently to do special 
 work against various forms of malpractice. 
 
 In this connection, it is easy to answer the 
 question sometimes raised, as to wherein Chris- 
 tian Science treatment differs from mental 
 science and suggestive therapeutics, and as to 
 why work in Science does not amount to the 
 same thing as what is known as "giving sug- 
 gestion to sub-consciousness." Methods of 
 treatment by "suggestion" assume that healing 
 can be accomplished by addressing the sub- 
 consciousness with arguments of health and 
 strength, made as mere statements, and not 
 based on divine Truth. The assumption is that, 
 in this manner, a sense of harmony can be 
 injected into the sub-consciousness, so that it 
 will be reflected in the body. Such an assump- 
 tion is based on an expectation of filling the 
 sub-consciousness with something that it did not 
 previously possess. On the other hand, the 
 Christian Science method of work tends to 
 starve and destroy the sub-consciousness, on 
 its discordant side, in the manner already de- 
 scribed, and tends to build up in the person
 
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 a God-consciousness, which is not sub-con- 
 sciousness, but is, from the ordinary human 
 standpoint, super-consciousness. This spiritual 
 consciousness is humanity's birthright, which, 
 however, can be attained only by earnest en- 
 deavor to have "that Mind which was in Christ 
 Jesus." 
 
 How interesting and illuminating, in this 
 connection, is St. Paul's statement, "If the 
 spirit of God (God-consciousness) dwell in 
 you, he (that same consciousness) that raised 
 up Christ from the dead shall also quicken 
 (make strong and well) your mortal body, by 
 His Spirit that dwelleth in you." 
 
 God, who is immortal Mind, never created 
 any mortal mind, whether conscious or sub- 
 conscious. Hence, in reality there is no sub- 
 conscious mind. Therefore it cannot be a chan- 
 nel for the transmission of beliefs of heredity, 
 and it cannot be a storehouse for erroneous 
 beliefs or a seat of evil habits. It cannot be 
 a medium for the transmission of mortal 
 thought, feeling or will-power. It cannot mis- 
 govern the body. God alone governs. 
 
 Note.- At the time Mrs. Eddy wrote "Science and Health," 
 the word "sub-consciousness" was not in common use; BO she 
 used the phrase "unconscious mortal mind" to express the 
 same idea. For example, see S. & H. 409; 9-15.
 
 GOD THE REWARDER 
 
 In the llth chapter of Hebrews, we read: 
 "He that cometh to God must believe that He 
 is, and that He is a rewarder of them that dili- 
 gently seek Him." This verse, rightly under- 
 stood and applied, furnishes us with directions 
 for overcoming our physical ills, as well as all 
 other forms of evil and limitation. To make 
 this evident, let us spend a moment in ana- 
 lyzing certain of the claims of error. 
 
 Contrary to the usually accepted belief, the 
 body, as such, is incapable of experiencing 
 either pain or pleasure. If it were, a corpse 
 would experience pain or pleasure. It is only 
 when consciousness is connected with the body 
 that pain or pleasure can be experienced. This 
 shows that, in reality, it is consciousness that 
 aches, or burns, or smarts, or feels weak. The 
 word "disease" means dis-ease; and it is con- 
 sciousness that is dis-easy, if there is any dis- 
 ease, and not the body. When there is dis-ease, 
 the body is often correspondingly abnormal, 
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 through swellings, false growths, sores, or 
 wastings; and the discomfort seems to be 
 located in or at these abnormal portions of the 
 body. Consequently, it has usually been in- 
 ferred that the abnormal condition of the body 
 causes the discomfort of the mind ; but exactly 
 the reverse is true, as can be proven in two 
 ways. 
 
 If consciousness becomes disassociated from 
 the body through death, the swellings, false 
 growths, sores, or wastings, may remain on the 
 body, but they no longer occasion discomfort 
 in any way, either to the body or to the mind, 
 showing that flesh, as such, is incapable of 
 sensation. Neither will abnormal conditions 
 (except the general condition of decay) de- 
 velop in the body, when consciousness is not 
 associated with it. This shows that discord is 
 not first in the body, and afterwards in con- 
 sciousness, but is first in consciousness, and 
 then is manifest on the body as a result. 
 
 To be sure, it must be admitted that a swell- 
 ing, or sore, often develops to quite an extent 
 on the body before the active mind discovers 
 its appearance there or notices pain from it, 
 and this fact has caused the vast majority of
 
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 mankind to believe that disease originates in 
 the body, and afterwards begins to disturb the 
 mind; but the fact is, that the human mind 
 (which is the mind that we must deal with 
 when we are analyzing the claim of error) has 
 a sub-conscious phase, through which the body 
 is mostly governed, unless God's government 
 is being scientifically demonstrated. Disease 
 usually begins in this sub-conscious phase of 
 the human mind, and then begins to be mani- 
 fest on or in the body, and then, last of all, 
 begins to disturb the conscious mind. In the 
 analysis of error, falsehood, or unreality, it is 
 the so-called sub-conscious mind, of whose 
 operations little has been known until lately, 
 that is the chief channel and seat of disease and 
 sin, so far as the mortal individual is concerned. 
 In the absence of control by divine Mind, the 
 conscious and sub-conscious mortal mind act 
 and react upon each other, and educate each 
 other in sin and disease, using the body as a 
 go-between, a mere football, as it were, to be 
 kicked back and forth between conscious and 
 sub-conscious arguments of evil: but the sub- 
 conscious mind is the original sinner, and, 
 unless prevented from doing so by the Christ-
 
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 mind, it recurrently, and often continually, 
 throws up into the conscious mind all manner 
 of sinful and painful feelings, and the con- 
 scious mind thinks that the body is the source 
 or cause of these sinful or painful feelings, 
 instead of discerning the deeper source of evil 
 in the mortal sub-consciousness. It is this mor- 
 tal sub-consciousness that must be cleansed by 
 the application of divine Mind, in order to rid 
 both the conscious mind and the body of evil 
 and discord. The method of doing this will 
 be spoken of a bit later. 
 
 The second proof that abnormalities in the 
 body are not the cause of discomfort in con- 
 sciousness, is the fact that the pain or other 
 discomfort in the mind is often completely 
 removed hours, and sometimes weeks, before 
 the swellings or false growths, which at one 
 time seemed painful, have disappeared from 
 the body. If these abnormalities of the body 
 were the cause of mental distress, mental dis- 
 tress could not disappear until the physical 
 abnormalities had been overcome. Almost in- 
 variably, the removal of discomfort from the 
 mind through Christian Science treatment is
 
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 followed, sooner or later, by normal conditions 
 of the body. 
 
 It has now been clearly shown, that all dis- 
 ease originates mentally, and is located in con- 
 sciousness, and that abnormalities of the body 
 are not, strictly speaking, disease, because they 
 are not dis-ease, but are mere manifestations 
 or effects of disease, never its cause. Hence, 
 it is very evident that the proper effort to cure 
 disease must center its activity on removing 
 evil from the consciousness; and if it be re- 
 moved from the consciousness, it will disappear 
 from the body automatically. That which is 
 to be treated is the mind and not the body. 
 
 It must be entirely evident, on statement, 
 that a dis-eased or dis-easy mind is an evil 
 mind; and that the way to overcome an evil 
 mind is to attack it with that which is opposed 
 to it, namely, good Mind. Now there is only 
 one good Mind. Christ Jesus declared : "There 
 is none good, save one; that is God." If we 
 intelligently and persistently turn to this good 
 Mind, God, that Mind will remove evil from 
 our consciousness as naturally as the sun re- 
 moves darkness from our eyes, when we turn 
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 152 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 Whoever beholds the light of the sun, be- 
 holds coincidently rays of violet, indigo, blue, 
 green, yellow, orange, red, and every interme- 
 diary shade and tint of color, all beautifully 
 blended together in what we call light. Like- 
 wise, whoever diligently turns to God, and 
 mentally beholds Him, cannot fail to increas- 
 ingly behold, and to gradually receive into his 
 own consciousness, love, joy, peace, strength, 
 harmony, health, substance, plenty, entertain- 
 ment, intelligence, and life, all beautifully 
 blended together in that "true light, which 
 lighteth every man that cometh into the world ;" 
 for God is omnipresent, not beyond the reach 
 of any man's mental gaze; yea, he is in every 
 man's very heart, when that man will diligently 
 open his heart to God. 
 
 So if we turn to God, knowing that He is 
 here, and if we diligently seek Him, He will 
 reward us by shining in our hearts and minds 
 with every conceivable form of good; and in 
 proportion as this comes to pass, in that pro- 
 portion the darkness of sin and disease are 
 driven from every phase of the human con- 
 sciousness, and we are healed, or made whole, 
 in consciousness, just where we need to be
 
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 healed, and then the body soon automatically 
 reflects the divine harmony, which, through the 
 power of God, has been established in the mind. 
 Accordingly, in the treatment of disease, the 
 advice of St. Paul is most excellent : "Be will- 
 ing (be choosing) to be absent from the body 
 (in thought), and present with the Lord." 
 For God is the healer; and He will reward us 
 with healing, if we come to Him with diligence. 
 
 Suppose darkness should say to itself, "I am 
 going to rise up and attack light." What 
 would become of the darkness when it got 
 within reaching distance of the light? How 
 much would it accomplish aside from its own 
 destruction? Moral: If there be no error 
 (darkness) in a man's own consciousness, the 
 errors of his ancestors, and all adverse thought- 
 influences, will be as powerless to harm him as 
 darkness is powerless to harm light. And this 
 is true by gradation as well as true as a matter 
 of complete attainment. The elimination of 
 any portion or kind of error from a man's own 
 consciousness, through turning to God, renders 
 him more immune from the attacks of any form 
 of error originating from without.
 
 In the divine Mind, truth and love are con- 
 stantly and indissolubly wedded. All human 
 undertakings which are to count for anything 
 must exemplify this union, for it is "accord- 
 ing to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount." 
 "Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in 
 heaven is perfect." 
 
 It is one of the "wiles of the devil" to try to 
 divorce truth and love in the consciousness of 
 men, and to make them believe that truth can 
 be advanced through war and strife, carried on 
 with motives of anger, hatred, revenge, self- 
 interest, or self -justification. Ever and anon, 
 problems of importance must be discussed and 
 settled in our families, in our churches, in our 
 business relations, and in the larger negotia- 
 tions of politics, law, government, religion, and 
 diplomacy. In these discussions, let us defeat 
 the "one evil" through understanding and bear- 
 ing in mind that, by no amount of argument, 
 
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 DOMINION WITHIN 155 
 
 however valid, and by no amount of force of 
 any kind, can we successfully promulgate truth 
 and permanently bring to pass the correct 
 issue, unless, during our efforts, we purposely 
 and habitually exercise the spirit of good-will. 
 In dealing with others, reasoning and good- 
 will are as the wings of a bird. If a bird tries 
 to fly with only one wing, he whirls round and 
 round, to his own confusion, getting nowhere; 
 but using both wings, he makes much progress. 
 Only as the male principle, truth, and the 
 female principle, love, are wedded in our con- 
 sciousness, can we obey the spiritual command : 
 "Be fruitful (of righteous thoughts and deeds) , 
 and multiply (them), and replenish the earth 
 (with them), and subdue it." Truth will go 
 no farther and no faster than love goes as a 
 companion. "What therefore God hath joined 
 together, let not man put asunder." 
 
 "Toil on, then, thou art in the right, 
 
 However narrow souls may call thee wrong. 
 Be as thou wouldst be in thine own clear 
 
 sight, 
 
 And so thou shalt be in the world's ere 
 long." Lowell.
 
 "LET YOUR CONVERSATION BE IN 
 HEAVEN." 
 
 Experience and conversation have led the 
 writer to believe that there are many students 
 of Christian Science, who have a correct the- 
 oretical understanding of its fundamental doc- 
 trines, but who, nevertheless, when they at- 
 tempt to apply Science in the treatment of 
 themselves or others, fall into the error of hold- 
 ing the material body, or some of its parts or 
 organs, in thought, while making their declara- 
 tions of divine harmony, health, strength and 
 perfection. In doing so, they unwittingly fall 
 into the fundamental error of practically de- 
 claring that there is a material man, when Prin- 
 ciple demands that declarations of harmony 
 and perfection be made only with regard to the 
 real man, who is spiritual and perfect, like unto 
 his Father. To make declarations of harmony 
 and perfection about the projections of false 
 material sense is foolish; it is but a phase of 
 mesmerism. 
 
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 CONVERSATION IN HEAVEN 157 
 
 Other students of Christian Science some- 
 times fall into a yet more subtle error, espe- 
 cially while treating themselves. They cor- 
 rectly make their declarations of the harmony 
 and perfection of the real, spiritual man; but 
 while doing so, they are watching the body "out 
 of the corners of their eyes," so to speak, to see 
 whether the treatment is taking effect, thus 
 implicitly admitting that there is a material, as 
 well as a spiritual man. This procedure does 
 not constitute that undivided affirmation of 
 Truth, and that absolute separation from error, 
 from the false concept of man, which yields 
 genuine and permanent results. There is in 
 Science no material body to be healed. What 
 appears as such, is simply one of the phases of 
 false belief. False sense is that which is to be 
 healed by being destroyed. There is nothing 
 else to be taken account of. 
 
 To be sure, the body seems to be uttering 
 complaints, else no treatment would be under- 
 taken; but these complaints are to be recog- 
 nized as complaints of false material sense, of 
 which the body itself is a part. Many times, 
 these complaints do not at once disappear un- 
 der treatment, and so, for a time, cannot fully
 
 158 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 be eliminated from our human consciousness; 
 and many do not seem to find the scientific way 
 to deal with them. 
 
 To illustrate this, suppose one were carry- 
 ing on an important business conversation with 
 a caller in a room where there was an assertive 
 and talkative child. He would doubtless en- 
 deavor to quiet the child, if he could not put 
 him out of the room ; but, if, for the time being, 
 he could not induce him to be still, he would go 
 on with his conversation, concentrating his at- 
 tention upon the subject in hand, which he 
 could do if he chose, regardless of the child's 
 babbling. He would, in a way, be conscious 
 of the noise, but he would not allow it to inter- 
 rupt the train of his thought. If the child be- 
 came too assertive, he might pause momenta- 
 rily now and then to command it to be still, and 
 thus lessen the uproar in a measure ; but, if he 
 paid no attention to the child's racket, it would 
 in all probability grow quiet all the more 
 speedily. 
 
 In treatment, it is our endeavor to hold con- 
 versation with our highest sense of good and 
 truth, to enter into communion with Truth and 
 Love, to hold converse with God. In doing
 
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 this we obey the injunction: "Let your con- 
 versation be in heaven"; that is, our conversa- 
 tion is in and with Truth in and with har- 
 monious consciousness, which is heaven. In 
 this conversation, the sense of matter and dis- 
 cord can have no rightful place. To the degree 
 that we admit the thought of matter, even to 
 watch its supposed states, to that degree our 
 conversation ceases to be in heaven; for we 
 have admitted the thought of a lie. If the 
 sense of body and discord become too assertive, 
 we may pause now and then to quiet this false 
 sense by denying that there is any material 
 body, or any discord. Indeed, we may meet 
 any specific claim of discord by a specific form 
 of denial adapted thereto ; but we should never 
 be betrayed into affirming harmony with regard 
 to the physical body, or into watching for har- 
 mony to be manifest in the physical body, with 
 the thought or implicit belief that the body is 
 real. Many times, it is most efficacious to 
 frame a line of thought in truth, including 
 affirmations calculated to specifically offset the 
 false claims which the body seems to be utter- 
 ing, and then to fix our attention upon the 
 affirmation of these declarations of truth, and
 
 160 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 hold to them, until, without narrowly watching 
 the process, we become aware that the body has 
 ceased to utter its complaints. The old proverb 
 finds good application here : "The watched pot 
 never boils." To fix our attention upon dec- 
 larations of truth is to heal by spiritual real- 
 ization. To deny the existence of the material 
 body, and of pain, weakness, discord, is to heal 
 by argument. The two methods may be re- 
 sorted to successively ; but affirmation of truth 
 should never be made concerning the material 
 body, and, of course, denials are never called 
 for in connection with things spiritual. 
 
 The multiplication table is a compound idea, 
 of which the ideas expressed by the words "four 
 times three equals twelve," "five times six 
 equals thirty," etc., are simple ideas. These 
 simple ideas can be used individually, yet they 
 cannot for an instant be so separated from the 
 multiplication table that the multiplication 
 table does not contain them. So the multipli- 
 cation table, although compound, is neverthe- 
 less indivisible, since no component part can be 
 for an instant separated from it. Therefore 
 the multiplication table is individual, since "in- 
 dividual" and "indivisible" are synonymous
 
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 terms as used in philosophy. So also, as Mrs. 
 Eddy teaches, man is the compound yet in- 
 dividual idea of God (S. & H., p. 468:22; 
 475:14). The functions and activities of 
 the real man are simpler ideas which go to 
 make up that compound idea, which man is; 
 but no one of these simpler ideas can for an in- 
 stant be separated from the compound idea; 
 hence the compound idea is individual. 
 
 Man reflects God, who is omnipresent Life, 
 infinite Mind all-powerful, all-harmonious 
 and eternally active. Hence, in his every func- 
 tion and activity, man may be declared to be 
 an idea of God, from which life and strength 
 and harmony are never for an instant sepa- 
 rated. To hold in thought such declarations 
 as these, and many others which are given in 
 the Bible, in our text-book, and in other Chris- 
 tian Science literature, is to have our "conver- 
 sation in heaven." It is well to keep our con- 
 versation in heaven, and to keep it from drop- 
 ping to the earth of material sense as much as 
 may be. To keep our conversation in heaven 
 is to "pray without ceasing," it is to "meditate 
 in the law of the Lord," and to "seek the king- 
 dom of God and His righteousness." If we do
 
 162 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 this, all needed harmony will be "added" to our 
 human sense, without our "taking thought" for 
 materiality, until such time as material sense 
 shall have been entirely eliminated. "Let your 
 conversation be in heaven." 
 
 If there is nothing within which can be 
 "hurt," nothing without can hurt us. Dark- 
 ness cannot harm light, and mortal mind can- 
 not harm the divine Mind or its reflection; it 
 cannot even touch it. Therefore, if we reflect 
 the divine Mind, we shall not be "hurt" by the 
 injustice, or coldness, or mis judgment of 
 others, no matter how much, from a mortal 
 standpoint, we should be justified in feeling so. 
 One finds by experience that he cannot afford 
 to let himself be stirred up by what others do 
 or do not do, by what they say or do not say. 
 One should let all these things slip off, "like 
 water off a duck's back." It behooves us to 
 be so much unselfed, so freed from everything 
 that is unlike the divine Mind, that there is 
 nothing within to be disturbed by the manifes- 
 tations of error.
 
 "PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT 
 FEAR." 
 
 To many students of the Scriptures, this text 
 does not seem perfectly clear; for they are un- 
 able to see just how love can be a special anti- 
 dote for fear. It would seem that faith is the 
 more direct opposite. Then, also, the question 
 arises, How is perfect love to be attained ? 
 
 A solution to these difficulties appears, if the 
 order of the words in the text is inverted, so 
 that it reads, Love of the perfect casteth out 
 fear. Perfect love must necessarily be love of 
 the perfect ; for love of the imperfect could not 
 be perfect love. Accordingly, to attain perfect 
 love, we must learn, and in Christian Science 
 we can learn, what the perfect is, and then we 
 shall learn to love the perfect. 
 
 What is the occasion of fear? It arises when 
 we anticipate the prospective or continued loss 
 of something or some one that we love. We 
 think that we are, or are going to be, deprived 
 of health, strength, property (substance), life, 
 
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 or the presence or life of some person whom we 
 love. But, in Christian Science, we learn that 
 the only real health is divine harmony, which 
 is the eternal, indestructible, changeless, omni- 
 present law of God ; and we learn that the only 
 real strength is God's omnipresent and inde- 
 structible power; and that the only real prop- 
 erty (substance) is Spirit, infinite Mind and 
 its ideas; that life is God or the expression of 
 God, and is omnipresent and indestructible; 
 and we learn that the only real man is God's 
 idea, eternal, changeless, perfect, and omni- 
 present. These real entities are the perfect 
 entities, and no others are perfect or real. If, 
 therefore, we have learned to love these, and 
 have withdrawn our love from their false, mate- 
 rial counterfeits, our love has become perfect, 
 and is fixed upon objects or entities which we 
 know we cannot lose or be separated from, 
 since they are omnipresent and eternal. There- 
 fore, when our love has become perfect through 
 love of the perfect, we know that we cannot 
 lose anything that we love, and so we have no 
 occasion for fear. Therefore, "perfect love 
 casteth out fear." It is also manifest that, "He 
 that feareth is not made perfect in love"; for
 
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 he has not learned to love the perfect, and the 
 perfect only. 
 
 A child and his mother are walking in the 
 field. The child stops to gather some butter- 
 cups; the mother strolls on. Suddenly the 
 child looks up and sees his mother quite a dis- 
 tance away. In a paroxysm of fear, he cries : 
 "Mama! Mama! wait for me!" If the mother 
 stops, his fear promptly subsides, and he does 
 not specially mind toddling along over the in- 
 tervening distance, until he catches up with her. 
 When we are afraid, it is mostly because we 
 think that life, or something or somebody that 
 we love is getting away from us; but when, 
 through Science, we become really convinced 
 that Life and all good things will wait until we 
 catch up until we attain the realization of 
 them, most of our fear subsides ; and we do not 
 so much mind the period of struggle that must 
 be gone through before we gain the permanent 
 possession of the good we seek. 
 
 In this connection is seen the great wisdom 
 of St. Paul's exhortation, "Set your affections 
 on things above, not on things on the earth." 
 In proportion as we obey this injunction, we 
 are freed from any occasion for fear, anxiety,
 
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 foreboding, or doubt, and we enter more and 
 more into love, joy, peace, and the realization 
 of all good. 
 
 Discouragement is the more sinister because 
 it is generally looked upon as harmless. In 
 fable it is told that the devil one night held a 
 sale and offered all his tools to any one who 
 would pay his price. These were spread out 
 for sale, some labeled hatred, and envy, and 
 sickness, and sensuality, and despair, and 
 crime a motley array. Apart from the rest 
 lay a harmless-looking, wedge-shaped imple- 
 ment marked "discouragement." It was much 
 worn and was priced above the rest, showing 
 that it was held in high esteem by its owner. 
 When asked the reason the devil replied, "I 
 can use this more easily than any of the others, 
 for so few know it belongs to me. With this I 
 can open doors that I can not budge with the 
 others, and once I get inside I can use which- 
 ever of them suits me best." William R. 
 Raihvon, in Christian Science Journal, May, 
 1911.
 
 WORKING OUT OUR PROBLEM 
 
 (Reprinted from C. S. Sentinel, Nov. 14, 
 1908.) 
 
 Many students of Christian Science, as well 
 as Christian people generally, make a mistake 
 in attempting too much at the start, or rather 
 in not rightly selecting the phase or manifesta- 
 tion of error over which they attempt to dem- 
 onstrate at the beginning. Error as a whole 
 presents many problems to be solved, and no 
 young student of Christianity is competent to 
 work on them all at the same time, and find 
 success in his efforts. He must choose among 
 the problems, working them one at a time, 
 although it is true that the solving of any one 
 problem contributes to the solution of all the 
 rest. 
 
 The most frequent mistakes made by many 
 who are trying to be Christian Scientists is 
 in attempting to demonstrate peace without 
 before they have demonstrated peace within. 
 They think they must solve the world's prob- 
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 lems, or their church's problems, or at least the 
 problems of their family or friends, in order to 
 solve their own. The scientific order of demon- 
 stration is the exact reverse. A man must cast 
 the beam out of his own eye before he can see 
 clearly to cast the mote out of his brother's eye. 
 We must be sufficiently acquainted with God, 
 good, and sufficiently grounded in our con- 
 sciousness of Him, sufficiently able to dwell "in 
 the secret place of the most High," so that in 
 our own consciousness we have become largely 
 impervious to the darts of error, before we are 
 strongly enough placed in good to be of very 
 much service to other people. If we have not 
 a firm inward hold on peace and harmony, we 
 shall not do much toward imparting these quali- 
 ties to other people or to outward situations. 
 
 Beginners in Christian Science need to fol- 
 low the example of Jesus. Before he entered 
 upon his ministry, he went apart, for forty 
 days, into the wilderness, to pray. He saw 
 that each should have his own consciousness 
 closely and firmly and unalterably united with 
 God, good, before undertaking the problems 
 of the world. During these forty days there 
 were sick to be healed, there were evils to be
 
 WORKING OUR PROBLEM 169 
 
 cast out, there were wrongs to be righted, but 
 for the time Jesus paid no attention to them; 
 he was giving his entire attention to getting so 
 firmly placed and grounded in the abiding con- 
 sciousness of God, good, that he would be able 
 to attack these evils all the more successfully 
 later on, and without being himself overthrown 
 in the process. 
 
 We do not need to make a physical journey 
 into a material desert in order to follow the 
 example of Jesus in this particular. It is suffi- 
 cient to withdraw our thoughts from other 
 people's problems for a time, so that we may 
 give our entire attention to the solution of our 
 own, become sufficiently acquainted with God 
 so that we shall be permanently at peace within, 
 even while the storms of error rage all around 
 us. When we have demonstrated such inward 
 and abiding peace that feelings of anger, jeal- 
 ousy, envy, resentment, self-pity, brooding 
 over wrongs, and the like, are not stirred into 
 activity by the conduct of others, then we have 
 gotten into a position to be of real service in 
 overcoming the errors in our family, in the 
 church, and in the world at large. Of course, 
 such a demonstration is a matter of degree.
 
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 Probably there are very few who have reached 
 such a height of spiritual attainment that in- 
 harmonious feelings are not at times aroused 
 into momentary activity; but we must have 
 become sufficiently assimilated to God, suffi- 
 ciently habituated in the abiding consciousness 
 of good, sufficiently alert with regard to error, 
 so that we promptly put out these intruders 
 upon harmonious consciousness, instead of ad- 
 mitting and cherishing them, before we can be 
 very helpful to others. 
 
 Even in the experience of those strongest in 
 the truth, there come times when, to sense, error 
 specially abounds and rages. In such a time 
 a Christian's first duty is to save his own sense 
 from taking part in the raging of error. With 
 his utmost efforts this may be all he is able to 
 do, and he will do well, at times, if he does this ; 
 but, unless he does this first of all, he can 
 neither help himself nor any one else. Such a 
 raging of error is spoken of by the prophet 
 Ezekiel, and he tells us: "Though these three 
 men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they 
 should deliver but their own souls by their 
 righteousness, saith the Lord God." If these 
 mighty men of faith under the given unfavor-
 
 WORKING OUR PROBLEM 171 
 
 able conditions would have been able to have 
 saved but their own sense from having part in 
 error, able to have done no more than maintain 
 spiritual consciousness, then surely there are 
 times when we, who have not endured the test 
 of the flood, nor the trial by suffering and the 
 loss of all earthly possessions, and who have 
 not survived the lions' den, there are times 
 when we shall do well if we do nothing more 
 than maintain our own peace. 
 
 In this connection, the story of Noah and 
 the ark is illuminating. Taken figuratively, 
 the flood may represent the raging sea of error ; 
 the solid ground the abiding sense of good, 
 which for a time seemed to be completely cov- 
 ered and hidden from sight by the sea; while 
 the ark represents that spiritual consciousness 
 which rides safely above the raging waves. 
 Spiritual consciousness was a place of safety 
 to Noah, his sons, and their wives, but there 
 were none others in the world who were able 
 to dwell in this ark of spiritual consciousness, 
 and so no other men were saved from the flood. 
 The ark had but one window, and it was open 
 toward heaven, toward light and truth and 
 good, the ark had no windows at the sides for
 
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 looking out on the sea of error. From time 
 to time Noah sent out a thought of peace, the 
 dove ; but it found no resting-place, none of the 
 solid ground of good appearing above the 
 flood, and so it returned to Noah. Thus he 
 knew that the waters of error were not yet sub- 
 sided, and he continued to dwell in the ark of 
 spiritual consciousness until error should de- 
 stroy itself, and thus abate, at least in some 
 measure. When once more Noah sent out the 
 dove, his thought of peace, it found a resting- 
 place, and did not return. Then he knew 
 that error was sufficiently self -destroyed, and 
 enough of truth and good had appeared in the 
 outward situation so that it was safe for him 
 to begin to make preparations to go forth from 
 the ark ; that is, to reach out with aspiring faith 
 for the benefit of mankind. 
 
 Many times there are members of our fam- 
 ily, or of our church, or people in our neigh- 
 borhood, who are so satisfied with their present 
 condition that the wisest thing we can do is to 
 protect our own consciousness and allow the 
 error to find its own self-destruction, while we 
 calmly abide in the consciousness that nothing 
 real, nothing good, can be destroyed or lost.
 
 WORKING OUR PROBLEM 173 
 
 When error has sufficiently destroyed itself in 
 the consciousness of others through suffering, 
 the time will come when they will be ready for 
 the help which we can give them. It is well for 
 us occasionally to utter a word of peace, a 
 thought of Science; but if their behavior does 
 not indicate that this thought of Science finds 
 a place in their consciousness where it can rest 
 without stirring up violent manifestations of 
 error, the thing for us to do is to continue to 
 dwell quietly in the ark of our consciousness 
 of Truth. If, in our efforts to help them, we 
 ourselves are dragged forth from the ark into 
 the sea of error, much is lost to us and to them. 
 While the prodigal chose to remain in the far 
 country, "no man ministered unto him." By 
 these words Jesus seems to intimate quite 
 clearly that to let them alone is the most effec- 
 tive treatment for those who are headstrong in 
 error. 
 
 The proper interpretation of certain verses 
 in the first chapter of Genesis gives us added 
 understanding of our privilege and duty. 
 God's universe was never "created" in the sense 
 of having been developed from a previous state 
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 with Himself. Any well-instructed Christian 
 Scientist will recognize this fact, without argu- 
 ment from the Scripture to support it, though 
 such evidence can readily be given. The rec- 
 ord in the first chapter of Genesis is not, there- 
 fore, a record of creation, but a record of the 
 inspired writer's advancing periods of under- 
 standing of the universe which eternally ex- 
 isted. Says Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health 
 (p. 504), "Was not this a revelation instead 
 of a creation? The successive appearing of 
 God's ideas is represented as taking place on 
 so many evenings and mornings, words which 
 indicate, in the absence of solar time, spirit- 
 ually clearer views of Him, views which are 
 not implied by material darkness and dawn." 
 While we are passing through the advancing 
 periods of understanding, the human sense 
 may be subject to more or less of disquietude 
 and unrest. There will be "days" when all will 
 appear bright and clear. Then other problems 
 will arise, which we are not able to solve for a 
 time, and we may pass through a period of 
 "night." Then we succeed in solving or over- 
 coming these difficulties of understanding or 
 experience, and come into a brighter and fuller
 
 WORKING OUR PROBLEM 175 
 
 "day." Finally, we arrive at the goal of com- 
 plete understanding, where we know the truth, 
 and know that we know it, and feel scientific- 
 ally confident that we can abide in the con- 
 sciousness of Truth and protect ourselves from 
 coming under the domination of error. While 
 there is much that we have not demonstrated, 
 yet we feel that we understand God, under- 
 stand His universe, and understand ourselves, 
 and that we have sufficient hold on the truth, so 
 that we can make our way forward gradually 
 to a complete demonstration of that which we 
 know to be true, without let or hindrance from 
 error. 
 
 When we have attained this consciousness, 
 we have reached the day of rest, not a period 
 of idleness, by any means, but rather a period 
 of activity in demonstration of the truth. Like 
 God, we are able to "rest in action" (Science 
 and Health, p. 519) . We work vigorously for 
 our own advancement and the advancement of 
 others. While doing so, we are confronted 
 with all sorts of errors, but they do not disturb 
 the harmony of our consciousness while we are 
 overcoming them. We are strong enough in 
 the truth so that they cannot disturb us. So
 
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 we are in perfect repose, even while we are 
 actively working. This period of repose, this 
 day of rest, is our Sabbath day. We should 
 "remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy;" 
 that is, our consciousness should rest in God, 
 and we should not allow inharmonious, annoy- 
 ing, unholy thoughts and feelings to enter. We 
 should keep our consciousness pure and clear 
 and our Sabbath day, our spiritual conscious- 
 ness, having been attained, should endure for- 
 ever. 
 
 "Despite the prosperity of my church, it 
 was learned that material organization has its 
 value and peril, and that organization is 
 requisite only in the earliest periods in Chris- 
 tian history. After this material form of co- 
 hesion and fellowship has accomplished its 
 end, continued organization retards spiritual 
 growth, and should be laid off, even as the 
 corporeal organization deemed requisite in the 
 first stages of mortal existence is finally laid 
 off, in order to gain spiritual freedom and 
 supremacy. . . . Material organization wars 
 with Love's spiritual compact." Mrs. Eddy 
 in "Retrospection and Introspection," pages 
 45, 47.
 
 THE URGE OF GOD 
 
 In the original Greek of the New Testament 
 occurs in several places the phrase orge theou 
 (pronounced or-gay the-ou), which most of 
 the translators render, "the wrath of God.*' 
 For instance, in Romans 1:18 we read: "For 
 the wrath of God is revealed from heaven 
 against all ungodliness, and unrighteousness of 
 men." This translation almost wholly misrep- 
 resents the true meaning of the Greek phrase, 
 as we shall see. 
 
 Nearly all the peoples of ancient and mod- 
 ern Europe were and are descended from an 
 ancient people, named the "Aryans," who 
 originally inhabited the table-land of central 
 Asia, but made their way westward into 
 Europe in several successive migrations. The 
 languages spoken by most of the peoples of 
 ancient and modern Europe represent modi- 
 fications of the language of the ancient Aryans. 
 The vast majority of the changes and modifica- 
 
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 tions which make the different European lan- 
 guages so diverse from each other took place 
 before the art of writing was invented or was 
 in common use, and before there was much 
 intercommunication among tribes and nations 
 through travel. 
 
 One of the migrations from the table-land 
 of Asia went westward into Southern Europe, 
 and finally separated. A portion went south- 
 ward into what is now known as the Grecian 
 peninsula, and became the progenitors of the 
 ancient Greek nation. Another portion went 
 into what is now known as the Italian penin- 
 sula, and became the progenitors of the ancient 
 Latin and other tribes, which finally united to 
 make the Roman nation. 
 
 Before this separation took place, there was 
 a verb in use, which, when the art of writing 
 was developed among the Greeks, came to be 
 pronounced and spelled orgao, but, among the 
 Romans, came to be pronounced and spelled 
 urgeo. From this Greek verb was formed the 
 noun org&, and another noun orgia, from which 
 is derived our English word "orgy." From 
 the Latin verb is derived our English word 
 "urge." Allied to these in derivation, though
 
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 not quite so directly or evidently, is the Eng- 
 lish word "work," which came through the 
 Saxon language, derived from the ancient 
 Aryan. 
 
 We are able to form a very correct idea of 
 the significance of orge from these words, 
 "orgy," "urge," and "work," allied to it by 
 derivation. The primary sense of "orgy" is 
 unbridled, unlimited, unrestrained action. The 
 sense of the other two words is sufficiently evi- 
 dent. Liddell and Scott's Greek lexicon gives 
 as the primary meaning of orge "natural im- 
 pulse," and gives as other meanings, "disposi- 
 tion, nature, heart." 
 
 Accordingly, it should be easy to discern 
 that the correct sense of the Greek phrase 
 orge theou is given by such expressions as, "the 
 natural impulse of God," "the urge of God," 
 "the urgency of good or Love," "the work of 
 good," "the unbridled or unlimited action of 
 divine Love." Neither in this phrase, nor in 
 any other phrase in the New Testament, when 
 correctly translated, is there any suggestion of 
 anything akin to human wrath or anger mani- 
 fested by God. The sense of orge theou is that 
 of divine Love overcoming evil with good. The
 
 180 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 correct rendering of the verse quoted from 
 Romans would be: The nature (urgency, 
 unrestrained power) of God is revealed from 
 heaven against all ungodliness and unright- 
 eousness of men (Rom. 1:18). 
 
 The correct sense of this Greek phrase is of 
 great use in Christian Science treatment, since 
 it enables us to realize something of the con- 
 stant impulsion, the unrestrained nature, the 
 riotous profusion of the power of good, of the 
 power of love, joy, harmony, substance, which 
 are a law of annihilation to all beliefs or mani- 
 festations of hatred, malice, jealousy, grief, 
 discord, poverty, inertia, stagnation, or death. 
 
 In the 19th Psalm, the sun is poetically de- 
 scribed "as a bridegroom coming out of his 
 chamber, rejoicing as a strong man to run a 
 race. His going forth is from the end of the 
 heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it : and 
 there is nothing hid from the heat thereof." 
 The sun constantly irradiates light and heat, 
 not for the purpose of dispelling darkness or 
 cold, but because it is the nature of the sun to 
 constantly send forth light and heat with tre- 
 mendous energy. If darkness or cold get in 
 the sun's way, they are destroyed. Likewise,
 
 THE URGE OF GOD 181 
 
 it is the nature of God to constantly irradiate 
 with tremendous energy into the whole realm 
 of being, life, strength, harmony, plenty, love 
 and joy. If beliefs of stagnation, death, weak- 
 ness, disease, hatred, malice, poverty, or grief, 
 seem to get in God's way, the "orgy," the un- 
 bridled action, of God destroys them; and, if 
 we realize this, these beliefs will be destroyed 
 for us. 
 
 "When students have fulfilled all the good 
 ends of organization, and are convinced that by 
 leaving the material forms thereof a higher 
 spiritual unity is won, then is the time to fol- 
 low the example of the Alma Mater. Material 
 organization is requisite in the beginning; but 
 when it has done its work, the purely Christly 
 method of teaching and preaching must be 
 adopted. . . . The real Christian compact is 
 love for one another. This bond is wholly 
 spiritual and inviolate." Mrs. Eddy in "Mis- 
 cellaneous Writings," pages 358 and 91.
 
 WORK FOR THE PATIENT 
 
 (From a Letter to a Patient.) 
 
 There are certain things that you should 
 have in mind and work for in your reading. 
 In the first place, you should find reasons for 
 understanding, in theory, that there is no mat- 
 ter, hence no life, intelligence, sensation, 
 strength, or substance in matter. You will 
 not be able, for years or perhaps for centuries 
 to come, to overcome and lose all sense of 
 matter; yet you should find reasons for un- 
 derstanding that there actually is no ^natter. 
 In Science and Health (p. 123), we read: 
 "The verity of Mind shows conclusively how 
 it is that matter seems to be, but is not." 
 
 In school, you found reasons for under- 
 standing that the sun does not rise, but that 
 it stands still while the earth revolves; but 
 you have not yet been able to make this evi- 
 dent to your eyes. You can find reasons for 
 knowing that the rails on a straight, level 
 railroad track do not run together at a point 
 
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 DOMINION WITHIN 183 
 
 on the horizon; yet you cannot make this evi- 
 dent to your eyes. In like manner, you can 
 find reasons for understanding that there is 
 no life, truth, intelligence, substance, health, 
 strength, or sensation in matter, even though 
 you cannot at present prevent your physical 
 senses from testifying to the contrary. You 
 will be able to make the truth evident in part. 
 You will soon be able to prove to yourself 
 that there is far less sensation in matter than 
 you at present feel and you will soon be able 
 to prove largely that strength and health are 
 not from matter but from Mind, God. And 
 it is important that you find this out. 
 
 If an engineer trusted his eyes, because of 
 the rails seeming to converge he would not 
 dare to go ahead with his train, lest it should 
 run off the track; but, trusting his reason 
 instead of his eyes, he goes ahead. So if you 
 use your reason, taking God as the Premise for 
 your reasoning instead of trusting the false 
 evidence of your physical senses, you will go 
 ahead and get well, even though the senses are 
 trying to tell you that you will continue to be 
 ill or that you are going to run into the ditch 
 for a smash-up.
 
 184 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 You should find reasons for understanding 
 that life, truth, intelligence, health, strength 
 and all good things are from God (infinite 
 Mind) , and that these things are really eternal 
 and indestructible. To a very large degree, 
 you can gain the realization of these facts 
 here and now, to a degree large enough so 
 that you will be stronger and healthier than 
 ever before in your life, and so that you will 
 live more years on the earth than you would 
 have lived without this knowledge of the 
 Science of Christianity, even if you had not 
 had your present sickness. 
 
 Also, from your reading, you should find 
 reasons for understanding that in reality 
 there is no sin and no sickness, and that there 
 never was any, because the infinite God, who 
 is wholly good and who created all, never 
 made any. Sin and sickness are delusions of 
 the human consciousness, not states of the 
 body, delusions which by the knowledge of 
 the Truth, as above described, can and will 
 be cast out. Jesus said, "Ye shall know the 
 Truth and the Truth shall make you free." 
 Through the knowledge of the Truth, you will 
 be able to prove, here and now in your own
 
 WORK FOR PATIENT 185 
 
 person, the nothingness of sin and sickness; 
 for, if they were something, God himself 
 could not destroy them; but being illusions, 
 mistaken beliefs (though seeming very real), 
 they can be destroyed. 
 
 Also, from your reading, you should find 
 reasons for understanding what Jesus meant 
 when he said: "Call no man your father upon 
 the earth; for One is your Father, even 
 God." You should learn to understand that 
 the human sense of life and generation is a 
 false sense; that, in reality, your only true 
 parentage is in God, and hence your only 
 heritage is good. In truth, there is no mortal 
 law of heredity. "What mean ye, that ye 
 use this proverb, saying, The fathers have 
 eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth 
 are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord 
 God, ye shall not have occasion to use this 
 proverb. Behold, all souls are Mine; as the 
 soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, 
 is Mine, saith the Lord God" (Ezek. 18:2-4). 
 Since God is the only Creator, man is not 
 a creator. Hence, God alone is Father- 
 Mother; and man is not a father and woman 
 is not a mother (See Matt. 12:47-50). God
 
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 is "our Father which art in heaven," and there 
 is in reality no parent beside Him. When 
 we find this out and make it real to ourselves, 
 we shall find ourselves inheriting good only. 
 There is nothing in this teaching to interfere 
 with the fullest degree of love toward those 
 whom we formerly called parents. We are 
 no longer to regard them as parents in a 
 fundamental sense; but we are to love them 
 because they are children of God, brothers 
 and sisters in the Lord (See again Matt. 
 12:47-50). 
 
 You should learn to understand that your 
 life is eternally "hid with Christ in God," 
 and that nothing can attack or destroy your 
 life; that the false sense of sin, disease, and 
 death cannot even seem to attack it, as soon 
 as you know enough of Truth to cast false 
 sense out. Christ said: "If a man keep my 
 saying, he shall never see death," and it is pos- 
 sible for you to learn, understand, and keep his 
 saying, and thus not see death, at least for 
 years and years to come. If you could under- 
 stand and keep his saying wholly, you would 
 never see death at all. Perhaps you cannot 
 do this wholly, but you can do it sufficiently
 
 WORK FOR PATIENT 187 
 
 for all present purposes; for thousands, who 
 were worse off than you are, have done so 
 before you in the last forty years. 
 
 You should study your text-book, Science 
 and Health, and such other literature as 
 your practitioner directs, faithfully accord- 
 ing to your strength, and try to find reasons 
 for understanding the things above outlined, 
 and you should not worry if the understand- 
 ing does not come very rapidly; it will come 
 in due time. Do just as you used to do in 
 school. You tried each day to understand 
 the books which you were studying, and you 
 gained a little more knowledge each day, and 
 you were reasonably content. You were 
 not surprised nor discouraged, and you did 
 not worry, because you did not understand 
 the whole book, or even everything in the 
 day's lesson, during the first few weeks 
 that you studied the book. You felt confi- 
 dent that you would learn all about it in 
 time and so you were satisfied with each 
 day's attainment. In like manner, study 
 Science and Health and the other literature. 
 Study with confidence and with diligence, 
 yet without a sense of haste, and the un-
 
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 derstanding will gradually come; and as the 
 understanding comes, the healing will come. 
 Meanwhile, the mental work that your prac- 
 titioner does for you, the understanding of 
 these truths that he holds for you, will be of 
 great assistance to you, and may heal you 
 before you come to the understanding for 
 yourself. But there is no danger of your 
 learning too much or too rapidly. 
 
 You would do well to commit to memory 
 as soon as convenient the following verses of 
 Scripture : Isa. 40 :31 ; Gal. 5 :16 ; Rom. 6:12; 
 Gal. 5:24, 25; 2 Tim. 1:7. 
 
 Also commit to memory as soon as possible 
 the following passages from Science and 
 Health: Page 76, lines 22-26; page 326, lines 
 16-21 ; page 327, lines 1-7; page 468, lines 7-15. 
 Read two or three times per week page 390, 
 line 12, to page 393, line 21. 
 
 "Such books as will rule disease out of 
 mortal mind, and so efface the images and 
 thoughts of disease, instead of impressing them 
 with forcible descriptions and medical details, 
 will help to abate sickness and to destroy it." 
 Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health, page 196.
 
 SELF-SURRENDER THROUGH 
 LOVE 
 
 A person who is seeking healing, or the 
 solution of any other specific problem, through 
 Christian Science, is scarcely forgetting self 
 while working on that problem directly, no 
 matter how correct the metaphysical declara- 
 tions and the denials of error which he is 
 making. Such a line of work is legitimate, 
 but it is an open question whether it is always 
 the most effective. In military activities, 
 many a position of an enemy can be carried 
 by a flank movement that could not be car- 
 ried by a direct attack, and this fact illustrates 
 what is often true in the Christian life. In 
 the matter of food and clothing, Jesus told 
 us not to seek them directly, but to seek 
 first the kingdom of God and his righteous- 
 ness and let them be added. The same gen- 
 eral procedure is frequently an excellent one 
 for overcoming sickness and sin. If we can 
 
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 effectively seek and gain the kingdom of 
 God in a general way, in ways that have 
 no direct bearing upon our specific personal 
 problems, we may find that, in such an 
 hour as we think not, health and holiness 
 along the particular lines in which we have 
 been striving for them are added unto us. 
 The great law of the Christian life is, not 
 so much to seek something for ourselves, how- 
 ever high and worthy that object may be, 
 but to seek to forget self in the love of God 
 and man. Some definite suggestions as to 
 methods of doing this may be worth consid- 
 ering. 
 
 Any line of procedure which tends to an 
 habitual thought and love of God and to 
 the general spiritualization of consciousness 
 is exceedingly useful. One method which 
 many follow is to set aside times and seasons 
 in which the effort is made to withdraw 
 thought as fully as possible from all the 
 affairs of worldly living and to fix it upon 
 the facts and laws of Spirit and of the spirit- 
 ual life. This is what is meant by going into 
 one's closet to pray and by going into the 
 desert to pray. Unquestionably such times
 
 SELF-SURRENDER 191 
 
 and seasons are indispensable to the attain- 
 ment of spiritual life. 
 
 But there is another method which seems 
 to be overlooked by many. That is the 
 method of seeing in all the affairs of normal 
 human living a symbolic presentation of higher 
 realities. There never can be a counterfeit 
 along any line unless there is a genuine to be 
 counterfeited. Christian Scientists are aware 
 that all activities on the material plane of 
 living are counterfeits, more or less reversed, 
 of spiritual activities. Spirit is the real sub- 
 stance, and matter is the counterfeit sense 
 of substance. God's infinite idea is the real 
 man and human corporealities are counterfeit 
 presentations of man. If the real man were 
 not feeding upon the truth and love mani- 
 fested by God, the counterfeit presentations 
 of corporeal men feeding upon material food 
 could not appear. Unless the divine idea were 
 ever in Mind, being thus clothed and sheltered 
 in Mind or Spirit which is the true substance, 
 the counterfeit presentations of men being 
 clothed and housed materially could not ap- 
 pear. Unless the real man were being en- 
 tertained by the continued contemplation of
 
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 good, beauty, and harmony in infinite variety, 
 the counterfeit presentations of corporeal men 
 being entertained by activities of various kinds 
 on a material basis could not appear. 
 
 On the human plane, in our present stage 
 of advancement, we need material food, cloth- 
 ing, shelter and entertainment, so much so 
 that Jesus, speaking from the human point 
 of view, declared: "Your heavenly Father 
 knoweth that ye have need of these things," 
 a statement which is not true in absolute 
 metaphysics. The fact to be now considered 
 and borne in mind is, that unless God were 
 good and constantly supplying good to the 
 real man, it would be impossible that there 
 should be presented to us those manifestations 
 which appear to us as good on the material 
 plane. From this view-point, we are priv- 
 ileged to see, and to meditate upon, and to 
 be grateful for, the goodness of God in con- 
 nection with our daily eating, and being 
 clothed and housed, and in connection with 
 our innocent pleasures, even though they be 
 more or less of a material order. 
 
 In Miscellaneous Writings (p. 86), Mrs. 
 Eddy has most clearly expressed the relation
 
 SELF-SURRENDER 193 
 
 which should subsist between our sense of the 
 beauties and bounties of the human world and 
 the spiritual realities. She writes as follows: 
 "My sense of the beauty of the universe is, that 
 beauty typifies holiness, and is something to be 
 desired. Earth is more spiritually beautiful to 
 my gaze now than when it was more earthly to 
 the eyes of Eve. The pleasant sensations of 
 human belief, of form and color, must be spirit- 
 ualized, until we gain the glorified sense of 
 Substance as in the new Heaven and earth, the 
 harmony of body and Mind. Even the human 
 conception of beauty, grandeur, and utility, is 
 something that defies a sneer. It is more than 
 imagination. It is next to divine beauty and 
 the grandeur of Spirit. It lives with our 
 earth-life, and is the subjective state of high 
 thoughts." 
 
 To eat material food merely as material 
 food with ac thought of anything else, is to 
 be carnally minded, and to act in the order 
 of death; but to see in material eating a 
 symbol of feeding on the body and blood 
 of Christ, that is, of assimilating truth and 
 love, is to be more spiritually minded and 
 to act in the order of life. To dwell in one's
 
 194 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 earthly home, seeing in it nothing but a mani- 
 festation of matter, is to dwell in a house 
 which is dead, but to think of the material 
 home as a symbol of the Father's house, 
 "the house not made with hands, eternal in 
 the heavens," is to make one's thought of 
 home instinct with life. Human activities 
 of all kinds, carried on and thought of solely 
 on a material basis, must of necessity become 
 dull and uninteresting; but normal human 
 activities regarded as symbols of spiritual ac- 
 tivities, and with the thought resting largely 
 on the spiritual, even while the material is 
 being performed, are instinct with interest 
 and loving gratitude to God. To see ma- 
 terial objects and activities merely as ma- 
 terial, is to see them as dead; but to see them 
 as representing on the human plane spiritual 
 ideas and activities, is to see the normal affairs 
 of daily existence as full of life and love. 
 
 A watch which one purchases for himself 
 may be merely a useful material article, but a 
 watch given to one by his father or mother 
 may be, not only a useful article, but almost 
 a constant reminder of love and providence. 
 In the one case, one's thought of the watch
 
 SELF-SURRENDER 195 
 
 is dead; in the other case, it is alive, giving 
 much more satisfaction than in the former 
 case. Likewise, as already suggested, it is 
 our privilege to see in every material posses- 
 sion, legitimately gained and held, a symbol of 
 our heavenly Father's love and care, thus keep- 
 ing our thought constantly alive with an intelli- 
 gent perception and love of God in connection 
 with every phase of our human living. 
 
 When a gift is given to some people, they 
 will go through the form of thanking the 
 donor, with more or less of realized thankful- 
 ness at the time of receiving it, but will 
 go on using this gift week after week, and 
 year after year, without again thinking of the 
 donor. Other people, receiving a useful gift, 
 will frequently think of the donor when using 
 it, and may even express their appreciation 
 to the giver at different times. Those who 
 soon forget the giver get far less satisfaction 
 from the gift than do those who not only use 
 the gift, but often think of the giver. The 
 thought of the former class is filled with intel- 
 ligence with regard to the gifts which they 
 have, while the latter class manifests non-intel- 
 ligence that is, death.
 
 196 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 When one first begins to read a well- 
 written and newsy letter from a friend, one's 
 attention may, at first, be somewhat directed 
 to the paper and the character of the hand- 
 writing, but soon the attention is caught 
 by the lines of thought which the written 
 words symbolize, and, thereafter, the atten- 
 tion is carried along on a plane distinctly 
 higher than that of letter paper and written 
 words, though the attention is directed and 
 guided by those written characters. How- 
 ever, if the reader were to fix his thoughts 
 upon the quality of the paper and the char- 
 acter and details of the handwriting as he 
 went along, he would largely miss the line of 
 thought which the written words were in- 
 tended to convey. Thus he would lose the 
 higher and more satisfying interest through 
 a lower line of thought, unworthy of his at- 
 tention for the most part. The written 
 words of the letter are not the thought and 
 love of the writer, but they symbolize and 
 serve to convey the thought and love to one 
 who reads the letter aright. Material food, 
 drink, clothing, houses, fields, landscapes, and 
 other material objects which contribute to
 
 SELF-SURRENDER 197 
 
 human comfort and satisfaction, are not cre- 
 ations of God; nevertheless, they may and 
 should symbolize to human sense the intelli- 
 gent care and love of God, the infinite Father. 
 He whose thought and attention are centered 
 on these material objects, instead of being 
 carried above them though in considerable de- 
 gree directed and guided by them, makes the 
 same kind of a mistake as does the reader of 
 a letter whose thought is so much centered 
 on the paper and the character of the hand- 
 writing that he misses the love and intelligence 
 which the letter was intended to convey. St. 
 Paul has well suggested in his letter to the 
 Romans: "The invisible things of Him 
 from the creation of the world are clearly 
 seen, being understood by the things that are 
 made, even His eternal power and Godhead." 
 As previously suggested, one may spirit- 
 ualize his thought by withdrawing as fully as 
 possible from all material objects and pur- 
 suits, but to spiritualize his thought by that 
 method, he must give his entire time and at- 
 tention to the effort so long as he is engaged 
 in it. On the other hand, by cultivating the 
 habit of seeing in material objects and pur-
 
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 suits symbols of higher realities and activities 
 as between God and the spiritual man, and 
 of thus having the thought directed to spirit- 
 ual things by all the details of daily living, 
 one may have his consciousness filled with the 
 recognition and love of God practically all of 
 the time, even when about his normal and 
 proper human business and recreation. 
 
 These thoughts are in distinct accord with 
 Mrs. Eddy's teaching on pages 86 and 87 of 
 "Miscellaneous Writings," as previously 
 quoted, and in the following paragraph: 
 
 "To take all earth's beauty into one gulp of 
 vacuity and label beauty nothing, is igno- 
 rantly to caricature God's creation; which is 
 unjust to human sense, and to the divine 
 realism. In our immature sense of spiritual 
 things, let us say of the beauties of the sensu- 
 ous universe: 'I love your promise; and shall 
 know, sometime, the spiritual reality and sub- 
 stance of form, light, and color, of what I 
 now through you discern dimly; and knowing 
 this, I shall be satisfied. Matter is a frail 
 conception of mortal mind; and mortal mind 
 is a poorer representative of the beauty, 
 grandeur, and glory of the immortal Mind.' '
 
 SELF-SURRENDER 199 
 
 How truly St. Paul has written: "If that 
 which was done away is glorious, how much 
 more that which remaineth is glorious" (2 Cor. 
 3:11). 
 
 It is undoubtedly wise and necessary for 
 every seeker after the spiritual life to have 
 seasons of withdrawing his thought as com- 
 pletely as possible from material objects and 
 activities, in order to be "alone with God"; 
 but let not this be the only reliance for spir- 
 itualizing consciousness, since very few peo- 
 ple are so situated that they can spend any 
 considerable portion of the day in the 
 "closet" communion with God. In addition 
 to this, through taking material objects and 
 pursuits, not as finalities of thought, but as 
 symbols of higher lines of mental activity, 
 let the consciousness be spiritualized in every 
 minute and hour of the day, whether in "the 
 hour of prayer," or in the market-place, or 
 the field, or the home, or the place of legiti- 
 mate amusement. 
 
 There are very few people, even among 
 those who are "sick" and "poor," who can- 
 not, if they will, count more comforts than 
 serious deprivations, and with most people
 
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 the comforts far outnumber the deprivations. 
 With many, health seems the only thing 
 lacking to a reasonable degree of joy and 
 contentment. To work directly for the at- 
 tainment of health or supply even by meta- 
 physical means (and this is entirely legitimate, 
 fora portion of one's activity), it is neces- 
 sary to center thought in some measure on 
 self and what self hopes to gain and in 
 some measure on the deprivation or lack 
 which one seeks to overcome. On the other 
 hand, to center the thought on God and on 
 the comforts and blessings which one has, 
 denying the sickness or lack in any given 
 line as much as may be, and to lift the 
 thought to God in gratitude for many com- 
 forts and blessings, is to take one's thought 
 off self, and to place it on God, the universal 
 good, thus tending to "overcome self," or to 
 surrender self in spiritual love. Whoever will 
 cultivate and attain this habitual recognition of 
 God and gratitude to Him will soon gain a 
 quality of consciousness in which habitual sin, 
 disease or poverty cannot continue. They will 
 be overcome, not so much by direct effort as 
 by crowding them out of experience through
 
 SELF-SURRENDER SOI 
 
 a general spiritualizing and uplifting of the 
 consciousness or life. The direct effort is 
 usually necessary, but it should always be 
 supplemented by the indirect activity above 
 described, an activity not really undertaken 
 for the purpose of gaining any specific thing, 
 but for both the duty and satisfaction of reflect- 
 ing back to God that intelligence and love 
 which He is constantly radiating toward man. 
 There are many cases of chronic disease, 
 which are yielding to direct effort through 
 argument in Christian Science only slowly or 
 seemingly, thus far, not at all, which will 
 soon yield, if the direct effort is supplemented 
 by self -surrender through habitual love and 
 gratitude to God, ceasing to take the com- 
 forts and blessings of daily living as "matters 
 of course" and thinking mostly of those 
 things of which we seem to be deprived, but 
 following the suggestion of the psalmist, so 
 frequently repeated by him: "O, that men 
 would praise the Lord for his goodness, and 
 for his wonderful works to the children of 
 
 men." 
 
 The ice which is upon the river or lake 
 in midwinter did not form there in a day or
 
 202 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 a week, but represents the accumulation of the 
 winter's cold. So a chronic disease, manifest 
 in the body, did not get seated there in a week 
 or a month, but represents the accumulation of 
 months or years of wrong thought and living. 
 Could we turn upon the ice on the lake in mid- 
 winter the heat of a midsummer sun we could 
 cause it to break up and disappear in a very 
 few days, but that is impossible. However, 
 the continued shining of the sun of early 
 spring, dispensing each day a comparatively 
 slight amount of heat, before very long breaks 
 up and melts away the ice. Could we turn 
 upon the accumulation of wrong thought in 
 mortal mind and the resulting disease a large 
 realization of the love and power of God, and 
 we often can, we could cause the disease to 
 break up and wholly disappear in a few hours 
 or days, and this is frequently done. But sup- 
 pose we cannot command a sufficient realiza- 
 tion to do this quickly, yet we can accomplish 
 it before very long, if we persistently turn 
 upon the evil condition even a small realization 
 of God's love and power. 
 
 The first day that the spring sun shines, the 
 ice is apparently not affected at all, nor the
 
 SELF-SURRENDER 203 
 
 second day, nor for many days; but finally 
 there comes a day when the ice is noticeably 
 affected, even to the point of breaking in pieces. 
 It was not alone that day's sunshine that ac- 
 complished this result, but the accumulation of 
 the many days of shining that had gone before. 
 So let us continue to cultivate spiritual thought 
 by any and all methods, especially by love and 
 gratitude to God, whether the disease seems to 
 yield or not. If we do so persistently, not 
 merely spasmodically, there will come a day 
 when the disease will yield markedly, and this 
 will be the result, not merely of the last day's 
 spiritual work, but of the accumulation of our 
 spiritual thought and growth. A wise man of 
 the East has well said: "Let no man think 
 lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not 
 come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of 
 water drops a water pot is filled. So the wise 
 man becomes full of good, even if he gather it 
 little by little. . . . Even a good man sees 
 evil days so long as his good (thoughts and) 
 deeds do not ripen; but when his good 
 (thoughts and) deeds ripen, then does the 
 good man see good things."
 
 MAKING THE PORT. 
 
 A brave and skillful mariner, once well 
 started on his voyage, never turns back, but 
 keeps headed toward the port of his destina- 
 tion, no matter what obstacles present them- 
 selves. His ship, wisely steered and strongly 
 propelled from within, makes progress even 
 while it is being buffeted by the winds and 
 waves. So shall I make progress, steered by 
 the acknowledgment of God in all my ways, 
 and propelled from within and above by Love 
 and Truth. I will not truckle in spirit, nor 
 yield for a moment my poise and self-control, 
 nor even think of turning back in my course, 
 for pain, nor for any suggestions of doubt, fear, 
 or despondency ; but I shall win a victory over 
 afflictions by patience, calmness, determination, 
 perseverance, courage, and understanding, all 
 born of God. 
 
 Just as the mariner does not ask the winds 
 and waves whether or not he is making prog- 
 ress, but asks his chart and compass, so I will 
 not ask the feelings or states of my body 
 
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 MAKING THE PORT 205 
 
 whether or not I am getting on, but I will ask 
 my increasing understanding of God's word, 
 which is my chart and compass. I will "look 
 away from the body into Truth and Love " 
 (Science and Health, 261:2.) I will, in my 
 calculations of progress, "be absent from the 
 body, and present with the Lord" (2 Cor. 5 :8) . 
 And when this storm of distress is past, I 
 shall be farther on than before it commenced, 
 in moral strength, in character, in health, and 
 in knowledge of the Truth. 
 
 When the storm arises, the mariner does not 
 turn off steam and drift before the wind, any- 
 where it chooses to carry him; but he turns on 
 more steam and keeps headed straight for port. 
 So, when the storms of distress or suffering rise 
 against me, I will not cease to know and de- 
 clare Truth and Love, and I will not utter the 
 complaints of mortal mind, and so let it carry 
 me backward; but during the storm of suffer- 
 ing, I will hold on to Truth and Love all the 
 harder. I will declare them all the more 
 stoutly. So shall I make progress toward final 
 healing even in the midst of the worst distress. 
 
 "Be not weary in well doing; for in due sea- 
 son you shall reap, if you faint not." Gal. 6 :9.
 
 IS GOD OUR FATHER-MOTHER? 
 
 Is God our tender, loving Father-Mother? 
 Potentially, yes, the Father-Mother of all 
 men. But from a present, practical standpoint, 
 whether He is our loving parent and provider 
 depends upon us. St. Paul declares: "They 
 which are the children of the flesh, these are 
 not the children of God." Yet all human be- 
 ings have the capacity to become the children 
 of God. The fact is that we do not come natu- 
 rally by a knowledge of God and of right re- 
 lations with Him any more than we come natu- 
 rally by a knowledge of mathematics or music. 
 
 In so far as we gain a practical understand- 
 ing of mathematics, we may be said to be chil- 
 dren of mathematics, but this understanding 
 has to be intelligently and laboriously acquired. 
 Likewise, in so far as we diligently seek and 
 acquire a knowledge of God and His law, and 
 order our thought and lives in the continual 
 consciousness of Him and in obedience to His 
 law, in that far we are children of God; and 
 He is our Father-Mother just so far as we thus 
 
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 DOMINION WITHIN 207 
 
 become His children, and no farther. We get 
 the benefit and care of divine Love just in pro- 
 portion as we work our way into mental and 
 practical accord with the law of divine Love. 
 
 It might be rather foolish for a man confined 
 in a dark cave to claim that the sun was his 
 source of light and heat, but if he could work 
 his way out of the cave into the light, his claim 
 would be justified. The sun does place light 
 within the reasonable reach of every man in the 
 world, but it will not chase a man into a cave 
 or other dark place, as a dog follows its master, 
 in order to give him light. The man must keep 
 himself in the light which is within his reach. 
 So God places all good within the reasonable 
 reach of every man in the world, but God does 
 not take separate account of every human be- 
 ing and follow each man into ignorance and 
 sin, in such a way as to force knowledge and 
 righteousness upon him without diligent effort 
 on his own part. Each man must meet God 
 half way. St. Paul declares that God is "a 
 rewarder of them that diligently seek him." 
 
 What has just been stated may seem to be 
 at variance with certain passages of Scripture. 
 For instance, Jesus frequently declared: "The
 
 208 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 son of man is come to seek and save that which 
 is lost." Undoubtedly Christ Jesus is God's 
 representative in the world, but in a media- 
 torial capacity, such that the mediatorial 
 Christ-mind, animating the activity of Jesus 
 and other human beings, takes account of par- 
 ticular human needs in such a way as the abso- 
 lute Mind, God, does not. Then Jesus de- 
 clared concerning material food and raiment, 
 "Your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have 
 need of these things." There seems little doubt 
 that Jesus made this statement, as he did sev- 
 eral others which are recorded in the New Tes- 
 tament, having in view the immature condition 
 of the understanding of his auditors. He was 
 feeding milk to the babes, rather than meat to 
 strong men. So, instead of making some of 
 his statements from the standpoint of absolute 
 truth, he made them from the human view- 
 point. When men "seek first the kingdom of 
 God and His righteousness," as Jesus told 
 them to do in this same connection, it does re- 
 sult that what they need materially is "added 
 unto" them. It works out just as it would if 
 God actually did know that they had need of 
 these things, and took particular account of
 
 GOD OUR FATHER-MOTHER 209 
 
 each man's need to supply it. Jesus declared : 
 "God so loved the world, that He gave His 
 only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on 
 him, should not perish, but have everlasting 
 life." This verse represents God as knowing of 
 men who are lost, and as loving a lost world, 
 and as deliberately sending His son into it. 
 God's nature, as absolute perfection, would 
 render this impossible; but since God is omni- 
 present good, and thus places all good, through 
 His manifestations in the Christ, constantly in 
 the reach of all men who are willing to seek 
 diligently to appropriate what is thus provided, 
 it works out in human experience a* though 
 God loved the world, and purposely sent His 
 only begotten Son to be the Saviour of the 
 world. "Beloved, now are we (who have been 
 spiritually quickened) the sons of God, and it 
 doth not yet appear what we shall be (when we 
 have fully apprehended and demonstrated the 
 divine sonship) : but we know that when He 
 shall (fully) appear (to our advancing under- 
 standing), we shall be (shall then realize our- 
 selves as being) like Him; for we shall see Him 
 as He is."
 
 THE LAME WALK 
 
 "Be willing (choosing) to be absent (in thought) from 
 the body, and to be present with the Lord." 2 Cor. 5:8. 
 
 "Look away from the body into Truth and Love, the 
 Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality." 
 Science and Health, 261 :2-4. 
 
 "Divine Science, rising above physical theories, ex- 
 cludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces 
 the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas. "- 
 Science and Health, 123:12-15. 
 
 Christ promised to his disciples in all ages: 
 "He that believeth on me, the works that I do 
 shall he do also." This same Christ declared, 
 "I am the truth;" so his promise evidently 
 means, He that understandeth me, the truth, 
 and worketh from this basis of truth, the works 
 that I do shall he do also. Jesus also declared 
 that the knowledge of the truth should make 
 men free from error and evil of various kinds. 
 Evidently, therefore, the problem of being able 
 to repeat the healing works of Jesus in these 
 modern times is the problem of learning to 
 understand and to apply the Christ-Truth. 
 
 This Christ-Truth was taught and demon- 
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 DOMINION WITHIN 11 
 
 strated by Jesus in Galilee, and was under- 
 stood and practiced by his immediate disciples, 
 and by his disciples of the first two or three 
 centuries. Following that time, the under- 
 standing of the truth which makes it possible 
 to heal the sick was lost, and remained for the 
 most part unknown and unused until it was re- 
 discovered from the Scriptures and again 
 taught and demonstrated by the founder of the 
 modern Christian Science movement, the Rev. 
 Mary Baker Eddy, who made her discovery in 
 1866, enlarged it in the years immediately fol- 
 lowing, and afterwards taught it to a rapidly 
 increasing number of students, either through 
 personal instruction, or through the Christian 
 Science textbook, "Science and Health, with 
 Key to the Scriptures," and through her other 
 writings. Many of these students, through 
 this instruction, have so learned to understand 
 the Scriptures, that they are able in some meas- 
 ure to fulfil the commission of Christ, "Preach 
 the gospel; heal the sick," in the same manner 
 that he preached and healed. 
 
 As an exemplification that this is true, the 
 author will speak of a few cases of healing 
 which have been brought about under his own 
 ministration, knowing, as he does, just what
 
 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 was done and said in order to effect the heal- 
 ing; and if he tells about them in considerable 
 detail, it may serve to prove to some who are 
 just beginning to investigate Christian Science 
 the truth of the Principle and teachings of 
 this Science, and it may help some to make 
 demonstrations for themselves. 
 
 The writer was talking, one evening, with 
 eight or ten laboring men, in a room where 
 they were gathered ; and, after a time, the con- 
 versation turned upon the subject of Christian 
 Science. They began to ask questions, which 
 the writer answered to the best of his ability, 
 and which led up to other questions and an- 
 swers, some of the answers given seeming 
 quite strange and remarkable to some of the 
 hearers. After a time, a young man sitting in 
 a chair, with a crutch at each side, said, "If 
 what you are saying is true, what about my 
 ankle, here?" The writer asked, "What about 
 your ankle?" Then the young man went on 
 to relate that, nearly a year before, while he 
 was helping to handle some heavy telephone 
 poles, one of them fell, by accident, upon his 
 ankle and mashed it very badly. A surgeon 
 removed more than a score of pieces of bone, 
 and pieces of ligament, and bound up the
 
 THE LAME WALK 213 
 
 ankle. Other pieces of bone festered out dur- 
 ing following weeks. Then the skin healed 
 over at the surface, but was red and of unnat- 
 ural texture. The ankle was shrunken and 
 remained so sore that it was impossible to touch 
 the foot to the floor without excruciating pain. 
 This condition had continued for many months, 
 and no improvement was evident; and the 
 young man had been obliged to walk with two 
 crutches ever since the accident, and his phy- 
 sicians could not seem to do anything for him. 
 Other men in the group, who were well ac- 
 quainted with the young man, confirmed the 
 account. After listening to his story, the 
 writer took up a Socratic line of questioning, 
 and led the young man to assent to the follow- 
 ing propositions, which will be seen to be 
 logically related to each other: 
 
 God is Spirit. God is infinite Intelligence, 
 infinite Love, and infinite Will. Intelligence, 
 feeling, and will are the characteristics of 
 Mind ; and since God manifests all these in in- 
 finite degree, He is infinite Mind; that is, in- 
 finite Mind is God ; and Spirit is infinite Mind; 
 so these are interchangeable names for the 
 Deity. 
 
 God is sole Creator, as the Scrioture
 
 214 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 teaches. Therefore infinite Mind is sole 
 Creator. On stopping to think about it, we 
 perceive that the creations of Mind are nec- 
 essarily mental, that is to say, ideas. There- 
 fore all that is created by the sole Creator con- 
 sists of ideas, which are true, changeless, eter- 
 nal, and perfect or harmonious, according to 
 the nature of Mind, God, who thinks them into 
 being. 
 
 Ideas are either simple or compound. Let 
 us illustrate. The multiplication table is a 
 compound idea, made up of simpler ideas, 
 like the ideas, "two times three equals six," 
 "four times five equals twenty," and so on. 
 Some of the ideas which constitute the real uni- 
 verse are compound ideas, and other ideas are 
 simpler ideas included within these compound 
 ideas. 
 
 If you are anything at all, God made you; 
 for God makes all that is made. If God made 
 you, you are the creation of infinite Mind ; and 
 so you are the idea of God, in His image and 
 likeness, and you are not a form of matter, 
 whatever the appearance may be. You are the 
 compound idea of God, and every part of you, 
 known as it is, is a simpler idea of God, in- 
 cluded in the compound idea, which you are.
 
 THE LAME WALK 215 
 
 Before proceeding farther to the particular 
 point which we are to make, in order that we 
 may understand it more clearly when made, let 
 us examine in a little detail the nature of an 
 idea. Let us take one that we are familiar 
 with, the idea, "two times three equals six." 
 There never was a time when it was not true, 
 when it was not a fact or an actuality, that two 
 times three equals six; there never will be a 
 time when it will not be a fact or an actuality ; 
 there is not a place in the universe where it is 
 not now a fact or an actuality. So that idea is 
 as enduring as eternity, and as large as the 
 universe, like the infinite creative Mind, which 
 ordained this idea as true and real. You will 
 readily see that this idea cannot be improved, 
 for it is already perfect of its kind ; and it can- 
 not be impaired, for nothing has power over it, 
 save God alone, who ordained it as eternally 
 true. It cannot be destroyed. As is true of 
 God Himself, "from everlasting to everlast- 
 ing" two times three equals six. All God's 
 ideas, all His creations, are endowed with His 
 changelessness, indestructibleness, and perfec- 
 tion. 
 
 Can you conceive of anyone changing the 
 idea "two times three equals six?" Could any-
 
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 one bury it ? Could anyone lock it up ? Could 
 anyone run it through a machine and mangle 
 it? Could a telephone pole fall on it and crush 
 it? Evidently not; for the idea "two times 
 three equals six" is infinite and omnipresent, 
 and is not in or of matter, nor subject to the 
 power of matter. Material symbols of this idea 
 may be made with chalk upon the blackboard, 
 or with the pencil on paper ; but the idea is not 
 in those symbols, nor in any way governed by 
 them, though it may be expressed by them to 
 mortal men. Whatever may happen to the 
 symbols does not at all happen to the idea ; for 
 the idea is ever the same. 
 
 If you have any ankle, God made it ; that is, 
 infinite Mind thought it into being, and holds 
 it in being as an everlasting and true idea ; and 
 like the Mind which thinks and holds it in be- 
 ing, this idea is infinite, omnipresent, unpictur- 
 able, without outlines, changeless, and perfect. 
 It is neither in matter nor composed of mat- 
 ter. Therefore, your ankle, the ankle which 
 God made, which is the only ankle there is (for 
 there is no other Creator) , was never under a 
 telephone pole, and never could have been 
 crushed by one. What you call your ankle is 
 but an unreal material symbol of some real idea,
 
 THE LAME WALK 817 
 
 or rather, a false concept thereof. If now 
 we know and declare the truth, the fact, about 
 your real ankle, as we have just done, this 
 knowledge of the truth will destroy the belief 
 of discord, pain, and weakness in connection 
 with that belief which seems to you to be your 
 ankle ; in other words, this knowledge and dec- 
 laration of the truth will cause the unreal sym- 
 bol to appear harmonious instead of discor- 
 dant. I tell you, the only real ankle you have, 
 the ankle which God made, the divine and per- 
 fect idea ankle, was never under a telephone 
 pole and was never crushed ; and any false ap- 
 pearances in connection with that which seems 
 to be your ankle have no reality, and no power 
 to remain; for they are mere false beliefs, lies 
 of satan, which the truth that we have just de- 
 clared has power to correct, and so destroy. 
 
 Within three days, without anything fur- 
 ther being done or said, the young man hung 
 up his crutches and began to walk about with 
 a light cane. The soreness and weakness had 
 almost entirely disappeared. A short time 
 later, he discarded the cane also. Within a few 
 weeks of the time of the conversation, he was 
 acting as conductor on an open street car, mak- 
 ing his way on and off the car, and along the
 
 218 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 running-boards filled with standing men, with 
 as much ease as though no accident had ever 
 happened to him. In truth, there never did, 
 although it so appeared in the realm of mortal 
 belief. But our Lord and Saviour said: 
 "Judge not by appearances, but judge right- 
 eous judgment," which righteous judgment we 
 did judge, in connection with the young man's 
 ankle. 
 
 The writer presumes that this account may 
 seem strange doctrine to some who have not 
 made a study of Christian Science; but he 
 wishes to call attention to the following fact: 
 He told that young man that his real ankle, 
 the only ankle he actually had, was an idea of 
 God, boundless, eternal, indestructible, and 
 perfect; and that his real ankle was never 
 under a telephone pole, and was never crushed. 
 When he made that statement to him, he told 
 him either the truth, or a falsehood. It was 
 one or the other. The statement did more for 
 the young man within a few days than skillful 
 physicians, aided by the so-called healing 
 forces of nature, had been able to do for him 
 in many months. You do not believe that a 
 falsehood would have such power. If the 
 statement was not a falsehood, it was a truth;
 
 THE LAME WALK 219 
 
 and it is a truth which illustrates the nature of 
 all reality. The whole real universe is an ideal 
 universe, consisting of divine ideas, which are 
 eternally and changelessly endowed with the 
 harmony, perfection, beauty, and uprightness 
 of God, their Maker. And whoever knows this 
 fact, and will maintain it in his thinking and 
 declare it when there is occasion, can, accord- 
 ing to the measure and clearness of his under- 
 standing and realization, overcome the dis- 
 cords, diseases, and troubles with which he 
 seems to be afflicted; and, in greater or lesser 
 measure, he can perform a like service for his 
 fellow men. 
 
 To avoid possibility of misconception, let it 
 be clearly stated that the divine ideas, of which 
 the ankle, heart, eyes, and other parts and 
 organs of the human body are reversed coun- 
 terfeits or misconceptions, are all limitless, 
 unpicturable, without shape, and their pre- 
 cise nature and office in Mind "doth not yet 
 appear," but will appear as we come to under- 
 stand God more fully. As God does not use 
 articulate speech, these divine ideas are, of 
 course, not known to divine Mind by the names 
 given by men to their mortal counterfeits. The 
 "spiritual body" (1 Cor. 15:44) is the body
 
 220 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 or sum-total of right ideas, completely express- 
 ing God. The teaching of this article is not 
 an attempt at spiritualizing matter or the 
 human body. On the other hand, it advocates 
 "replacing the objects of material sense with 
 spiritual ideas" (S. & H., p. 123). It is not 
 an attempt at localizing these ideas, but teaches 
 their boundlessness and omnipresence. 
 
 Christian Science is pure metaphysics; that 
 is, it is above, beyond, and over physics, or that 
 which is visible and material. In the experi- 
 ence of any student at the start, Christian Sci- 
 ence does not correspond at all to the so-called 
 physical or sensible world ; yet it is true, that, 
 if a student will study and accept Christian 
 Science as a purely mental or metaphys- 
 ical science, when he is firmly established on its 
 metaphysical basis, he can then use his knowl- 
 edge to produce visible changes in the so-called 
 physical realm. Archimedes, when he discov- 
 ered the basic law of leverage said, "Give me 
 where to stand (outside the world) , and I will 
 move the world." Christian Science does give 
 us a firm mental standing-ground outside 
 the so-called physical and visible; and, having 
 discovered and learned to stand upon this 
 basis, according to the measure and absolute-
 
 THE LAME WALK 221 
 
 ness of our metaphysical realization we can 
 move off the physical appearances named dis- 
 eases, whether organic or inorganic, so-called. 
 With a very complete and absolute realization 
 of the metaphysical, we could produce even 
 more marvelous changes in the so-called phys- 
 ical. Jesus was the master metaphysician of 
 all who have ever appeared upon the earth ; and 
 he, from the metaphysical standpoint, not only 
 healed all manner of disease but changed the 
 water into wine, multiplied the loaves and 
 fishes, caused the fig tree to wither to the roots, 
 restored the withered hand, gave sight to the 
 blind, hearing to the deaf, and caused the lame 
 to walk. 
 
 As confirmatory evidence that the method of 
 work above described is efficacious, and that it 
 is actually workable in daily practice, the 
 author will speak very much more briefly of 
 two or three other cases of healing. 
 
 A lady complained of having had a large 
 number of corns on her toes, which had caused 
 her much annoyance for many years. The 
 writer took up a line of thought with her, just 
 as he did with the young man, and showed her 
 that her real toes are ideas of God, eternal, 
 changeless, and perfect. He also showed her,
 
 222 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 that, just as the simpler ideas of the multipli- 
 cation table abide together within the table, 
 and never get in each other's way or interfere 
 with each other, likewise our real toes, as ideas 
 of God, eternally dwell together in creative 
 Mind, and never get in each other's way, or 
 interfere with each other, nor can they be made 
 to do so. He said to her that she seemed to 
 have trouble with her toes because she believed 
 the false sense about them, and thought them 
 to be material, limited, and subject to change 
 and disease; and he showed her that this could 
 not be true of anything which God created, 
 and He made all that is made. Following this 
 conversation, without further treatment the 
 lady forgot about her feet, until chancing to 
 look at them a few days later, she found no 
 corns in evidence, although the trouble had 
 seemed to be a fixed condition for years. A 
 false declaration could not have cured her so 
 remarkably; so the declaration was true, and 
 illustrates the ideality and changeless perfec- 
 tion of the real universe, and the real man. 
 
 A lady showed the author a hand badly 
 broken out in appearance with what is called 
 salt-rheum, which condition had been in evi- 
 dence several weeks. She knew nothing of
 
 THE LAME WALK 223 
 
 Christian Science. So, without preliminary 
 explanation, the writer declared to her directly 
 that her hand was an idea of God, an idea in 
 Mind, and not a form of matter ; that her real 
 blood was the same as the blood of Christ; 
 namely, divine Life and Love (the writer was 
 not referring to the blood of Jesus, which was 
 the same as that of any other mortal, but to the 
 blood of Christ) ; and so her real blood could 
 not be impure; that the substance of her hand 
 was creative Mind, which eternally upholds the 
 idea which her hand is; and so neither her 
 hand, nor its substance, nor its blood, could, in 
 truth, be diseased. Nothing else was said ; but 
 she left the room and forgot about the hand, 
 until, chancing to look at it next morning, she 
 found it whole and fair like the other. 
 
 These demonstrations are among thousands 
 made by Christian Science practitioners, which 
 give visible proof of the significance and truth 
 of the following words of Mrs. Eddy : "Every 
 creation or idea of Spirit has its counterfeit in 
 some matter-belief. Every material belief 
 hints the existence of spiritual reality; and if 
 mortals are instructed in spiritual things, it 
 will be seen that material belief, in all its mani- 
 festations, reversed, will be found the type and
 
 DOMINION WITHIN 
 
 representative of verities priceless, eternal, and 
 just at hand." Miscellaneous Writings, 
 pages, 60, 61. 
 
 The writer was most remarkably healed 
 through the demonstration of Christian Sci- 
 ence, and has been blessed in countless ways in 
 his own personal experience; and for these 
 blessings, and for the understanding of the 
 Scriptures which has enabled him to be of some 
 help to his fellow men, he gives thanks to God 
 and the Lord Jesus, and he also gratefully re- 
 members the woman through whose discovery, 
 labors, and sacrifices this healing truth has been 
 made known to this age and generation. 
 
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