Balm of Gilead (Gad)
Hymns #49, 221, 29
Matt. 13:44-46 1st the
44 the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when
a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that
he hath, and buyeth that field.
45
¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking
goodly pearls:
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Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he
had, and bought it.
Gen. 29:16-18 Laban (to ;), 31, 32 (to :)
16 Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name
of the younger was Rachel.
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Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
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And Jacob loved Rachel;
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¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but
Rachel was barren.
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And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben:
Gen. 30:9-11
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When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and
gave her Jacob to wife.
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And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
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And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
Gen. 49:1, 19
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AND Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that
I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
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¶ Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Num. 32:1, 2, 4-7 1st the, 16-29
1 NOW the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great
multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of
Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
2
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto
Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation,
saying,
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the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a
land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
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Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be
given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
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¶ And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben,
Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
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And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going
over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
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¶ And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here
for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
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But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until
we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in
the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
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We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have
inherited every man his inheritance.
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For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward;
because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
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¶ And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed
before the LORD to war,
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And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath
driven out his enemies from before him,
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And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return,
and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be
your possession before the LORD.
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But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be
sure your sin will find you out.
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Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that
which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
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And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses,
saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
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Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in
the cities of Gilead:
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But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD
to battle, as my lord saith.
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So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the
son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
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And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before
the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give
them the land of Gilead for a possession:
Deut. 33:1, 20, 21
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AND this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the
children of Israel before his death.
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¶ And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad; he dwelleth as a
lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
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And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of
the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he
executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
Num. 27:1-7
1 THEN came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of
Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of
Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters;
Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
2
And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the
princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, saying,
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Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them
that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of
Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
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Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family,
because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the
brethren of our father.
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And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a
possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt
cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
Josh. 17:3-6 Zelophehad
3 Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the
son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of
his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
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And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of
Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give
us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the
commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the
brethren of their father.
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And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and
Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
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Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons:
and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.
I Kings 16:29, 30, 32
29 ¶ And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the
son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over
Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
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And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that
were before him.
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And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built
in Samaria.
I Kings 17:1, 8, 9, 17-24
1 AND Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto
Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall
not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
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¶ And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
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Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there:
behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
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¶ And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the
mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was
no breath left in him.
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And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of
God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay
my son?
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And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom,
and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own
bed.
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And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also
brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
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And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the
LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into
him again.
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And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into
him again, and he revived.
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And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into
the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son
liveth.
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¶ And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of
God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
I Kings 18:1, 17, 18
1 AND it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to
Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will
send rain upon the earth.
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¶ And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art
thou he that troubleth Israel?
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And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s
house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou
hast followed Baalim.
Jer. 7:21 (to ;), 23 Obey, 24
21 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
23
Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and
walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well
unto you.
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But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels
and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not
forward.
Jer. 8:4 Thus, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 19, 21, 22 (to 2nd ?)
4 Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and
not return?
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Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
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Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle
and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my
people know not the judgment of the LORD.
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The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have
rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
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For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and
behold trouble!
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Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them
that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her?
Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with
strange vanities?
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For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;
astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the
health of the daughter of my people recovered?
John 6:1, 2
1 AFTER these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of
Tiberias.
2
And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which
he did on them that were diseased.
Matt. 26:6-13
6 ¶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
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There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious
ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
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But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what
purpose is this waste?
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For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
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When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman?
for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
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For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
12
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my
burial.
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Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the
whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a
memorial of her.
SH 152:5, 21
The author has endeavored
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to make this book the Æsculapius of mind as well as of
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body, that it may give hope to the sick and heal them,
although they know not how the work is done. Truth
has a healing effect, even when not fully understood.
The author’s medical researches and experiments had
prepared her thought for the metaphysics of Christian
Science. Every material dependence had
failed her in her search for truth; and she can
now understand why, and can see the means
by which mortals are divinely driven to a spiritual source
for health and happiness.
The author’s
experiments in
medicine
SH 586:21-22
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GAD (Jacob’s son). Science; spiritual being understood; haste towards harmony.
SH 585:9-14
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ELIAS. Prophecy; spiritual evidence opposed to material sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned
the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold;
the basis of immortality.
“Elias truly shall first come and restore all things.”
(Matthew xvii. 11.)
SH 562:3-7 (to 1st .)
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As Elias presented
the idea of the fatherhood of God, which Jesus
afterwards manifested, so the Revelator completed this
figure with woman, typifying the spiritual idea of God’s
motherhood.
SH 156:5-10 (np)
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A case of dropsy, given up by the faculty, fell into
my hands. It was a terrible case. Tapping had been
employed, and yet, as she lay in her bed, the
patient looked like a barrel. I prescribed
the fourth attenuation of Argentum nitratum with occasional doses of a high attenuation of Sulphuris. She improved perceptibly. Believing then somewhat in the
ordinary theories of medical practice, and learning that
her former physician had prescribed these remedies, I
began to fear an aggravation of symptoms from their
prolonged use, and told the patient so; but she was
unwilling to give up the medicine while she was re-
Dropsy cured
without drugs
covering. It then occurred to me to give her unmedicated pellets and watch the result. I did so, and
she continued to gain. Finally she said that she would
give up her medicine for one day, and risk the
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effects. After trying this, she informed me that she
could get along two days without globules; but on
the third day she again suffered, and was relieved by
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taking them. She went on in this way, taking the
unmedicated pellets, — and receiving occasional visits
from me, — but employing no other means, and she was
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cured.
Metaphysics, as taught in Christian Science, is the
next stately step beyond homœopathy. In metaphysics,
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matter disappears from the remedy entirely,
and Mind takes its rightful and supreme
place. Homœopathy takes mental symptoms largely
157:1 into consideration in its diagnosis of disease. Christian
Science deals wholly with the mental cause in judging and
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destroying disease. It succeeds where homœopathy fails,
solely because its one recognized Principle of healing is
Mind, and the whole force of the mental element is em6
ployed through the Science of Mind, which never shares
its rights with inanimate matter.
Christian Science exterminates the drug, and rests on
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Mind alone as the curative Principle, acknowledging that
the divine Mind has all power.
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A stately
advance
The modus of
homœopathy
SH 161:3-23
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You say, “I have burned my finger.” This is an
exact statement, more exact than you suppose; for mortal mind, and not matter, burns it. Holy inspiration
has created states of mind which have been able to nullify
the action of the flames, as in the Bible case of the three
young Hebrew captives, cast into the Babylonian furnace;
while an opposite mental state might produce spontaneous
combustion.
In 1880, Massachusetts put her foot on a proposed
tyrannical law, restricting the practice of medicine. If
her sister States follow this example in harmony with our Constitution and Bill of Rights,
they will do less violence to that immortal sentiment of the
Declaration, “Man is endowed by his Maker with certain
inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.”
The oppressive state statutes touching medicine remind one of the words of the famous Madame Roland,
as she knelt before a statue of Liberty, erected near the
guillotine: “Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy
name!”
Restrictive
regulations
SH 183:26-15
Truth casts out all evils and materialistic methods
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with the actual spiritual law, — the law which gives
sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, voice
to the dumb, feet to the lame. If Christian
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Science dishonors human belief, it honors spiritual understanding; and the one Mind only is entitled to
honor.
184:1
The so-called laws of health are simply laws of mortal
belief. The premises being erroneous, the conclusions
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are wrong. Truth makes no laws to regulate sickness,
sin, and death, for these are unknown to Truth and should
not be recognized as reality.
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Belief produces the results of belief, and the penalties it affixes last so long as the belief and are inseparable from it. The remedy consists in probing the trouble
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to the bottom, in finding and casting out by denial the
error of belief which produces a mortal disorder, never
honoring erroneous belief with the title of law nor yield12
ing obedience to it. Truth, Life, and Love are the only
legitimate and eternal demands on man, and they are
spiritual lawgivers, enforcing obedience through divine
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statutes.
Belief and
understanding
SH 123:16-29
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The term CHRISTIAN SCIENCE was introduced by
the author to designate the scientific system of divine
healing.
The revelation consists of two parts:
1. The discovery of this divine Science of Mindhealing, through a spiritual sense of the Scriptures and
through the teachings of the Comforter, as promised by
the Master.
2. The proof, by present demonstration, that the socalled miracles of Jesus did not specially belong to a
dispensation now ended, but that they illustrated an
ever-operative divine Principle. The operation of this
Principle indicates the eternality of the scientific order
and continuity of being.
SH 107:7
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This apodictical Principle points to the revelation of
Immanuel, “God with us,” — the sovereign ever-presence, delivering the children of men from
every ill “that flesh is heir to.” Through
Christian Science, religion and medicine are
inspired with a diviner nature and essence; fresh pinions
are given to faith and understanding, and thoughts acquaint themselves intelligently with God.
Mission of
Christian
Science
SH 459:24-13
To mortal sense Christian Science seems abstract, but
the process is simple and the results are sure if the Science
is understood. The tree must be good, which
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produces good fruit. Guided by divine Truth
and not guesswork, the theologus (that is, the student —
the Christian and scientific expounder — of the divine
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law) treats disease with more certain results than any
other healer on the globe. The Christian Scientist should
understand and adhere strictly to the rules of divine meta460:1 physics as laid down in this work, and rest his demonstration on this sure basis.
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Ontology is defined as “the science of the necessary
constituents and relations of all beings,” and it underlies all metaphysical practice. Our system of
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Mind-healing rests on the apprehension of the
nature and essence of all being, — on the divine Mind
and Love’s essential qualities. Its pharmacy is moral,
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and its medicine is intellectual and spiritual, though used
for physical healing. Yet this most fundamental part of
metaphysics is the one most difficult to understand and
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demonstrate, for to the material thought all is material,
till such thought is rectified by Spirit.
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SH 591:21
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MIRACLE. That which is divinely natural, but must
be learned humanly; a phenomenon of Science.
SH 151:4
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Infinite Mind could not possibly create
a remedy outside of itself, but erring, finite, human mind
has an absolute need of something beyond itself for its
redemption and healing.
SH 446:5
A thorough perusal of the author’s publications heals
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sickness. If patients sometimes seem worse while reading this book, the change may either arise from the alarm
of the physician, or it may mark the crisis of the disease.
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Perseverance in the perusal of the book has generally
completely healed such cases.
Certainty of
results
Ontology
defined
SH 382:24
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One whom I rescued from seeming spiritual oblivion,
in which the senses had engulfed him, wrote to me: “I
should have died, but for the glorious Principle you teach, 27
— supporting the power of Mind over the body and showing me the nothingness of the so-called pleasures and pains
of sense. The treatises I had read and the medicines I
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had taken only abandoned me to more hopeless suffering
and despair. Adherence to hygiene was useless. Mortal
mind needed to be set right. The ailment was not bodily,
383:1 but mental, and I was cured when I learned my way in
Christian Science.”
SH 144:27
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When the Science of being is universally understood,
every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be
the universal panacea.
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My. 175:22
Sweeter than the balm of Gilead, richer than the
diamonds of Golconda, dear as the friendship of those
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we love, are justice, fraternity, and Christian charity.
The song of my soul must remain so long as I remain.
Let brotherly love continue.
No. 44:13
In Queen Elizabeth’s time Protestantism could sentence
men to the dungeon or stake for their religion, and so
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abrogate the rights of conscience and choke the channels
of God. Ecclesiastical tyranny muzzled the mouth lisping
God’s praise; and instead of healing, it palsied the weak
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hand outstretched to God. Progress, legitimate to the
human race, pours the healing balm of Truth and Love
into every wound. It reassures us that no Reign of Terror
or rule of error will again unite Church and State, or reenact, through the civil arm of government, the horrors of
religious persecution.
Po. vii:5-16 (to 2nd .)
In May, 1910, Mrs. Eddy requested her publisher to prepare a few bound volumes of her poems,
for private distribution. When this became known
to her friends, they urged her to allow a popular
edition to be issued, to which she assented. With
grateful acknowledgment, therefore, of this permission, this little volume is presented to the public,
in the hope that these gems of purest thought
from this spiritually-minded author will prove
a joy to the heavy laden and a balm to the weary
heart.
ADAM H. DICKEY.
Po. 22:12-22
’Tis writ on earth, on leaf and flower:
Love hath one race, one realm, one power.
Dear God! how great, how good Thou art
To heal humanity’s sore heart;
To probe the wound, then pour the balm —
A life perfected, strong and calm.
The dark domain of pain and sin
Surrenders — Love doth enter in,
And peace is won, and lost is vice:
Right reigns, and blood was not its price.
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., January, 1901.
Po. 24:1-4
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C
ome to me, joys of heaven!
Breathe through the summer air
A balm — the long-lost leaven
Dissolving death, despair!
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