No and Yes

No and Yes

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Title: No and Yes
Author: Mary Baker Eddy

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NO AND YES

by
MARY BAKER EDDY
Author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Published by The Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy
Boston, U.S.A.
Authorized Literature of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston,
Massachusetts
1919

PREFACE
It was the purpose of each edition of this pamphlet to benefit no
favored class, but, according to the apostle's admonition, to "reprove,
rebuke, exhort," and with the power and self-sacrificing spirit of Love
to correct involuntary as well as voluntary error.
By a modification of the language, the import of this edition is, we trust,
transparent to the hearts of all conscientious laborers in the realm of
Mind-healing. To those who are athirst for the life-giving waters of a
true divinity, it saith tenderly, "Come and drink;" and if you are babes
in Christ, leave the meat and take the unadulterated milk of the Word,
until you grow to apprehend the pure spirituality of Truth.
MARY BAKER EDDY

CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION

DISEASE UNREAL
SCIENCE OF MIND-HEALING
IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE OF THE SAME LINEAGE AS
SPIRITUALISM OR THEOSOPHY?
IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE FROM BENEATH, AND NOT FROM
ABOVE?
IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PANTHEISTIC?
IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BLASPHEMOUS?
IS THERE A PERSONAL DEITY?
IS THERE A PERSONAL DEVIL?
IS MAN A PERSON?
HAS MAN A SOUL?
IS SIN FORGIVEN?
IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS SIN?
IS THERE NO SACRIFICIAL ATONEMENT?
IS THERE NO INTERCESSORY PRAYER?
SHOULD CHRISTIANS BEWARE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE?

NO AND YES

INTRODUCTION

To kindle in all minds a common sentiment of regard for the spiritual
idea emanating from the infinite, is a most needful work; but this must
be done gradually, for Truth is as "the still, small voice," which comes
to our recognition only as our natures are changed by its silent
influence.
Small streams are noisy and rush precipitately; and babbling brooks fill
the rivers till they rise in floods, demolishing bridges and
overwhelming cities. So men, when thrilled by a new idea, are
sometimes impatient; and, when public sentiment is aroused, are liable
to be borne on by the current of feeling. They should then turn
temporarily from the tumult, for the silent cultivation of the true idea
and the quiet practice of its virtues. When the noise and stir of
contending sentiments cease, and the flames die away on the mount of
revelation, we can read more clearly the tablets of Truth.
The theology and medicine of Jesus were one,--in the divine oneness of
the trinity, Life, Truth, and Love, which healed the sick and cleansed
the sinful. This trinity in unity, correcting the individual thought, is the
only Mind-healing I vindicate; and on its standard have emblazoned
that crystallized expression, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
A spurious and hydra-headed mind-healing is naturally glared at by the
pulpit, ostracized by the medical faculty, and scorned by people of
common sense. To aver that disease is normal, a God-bestowed and
stubborn reality, but that you can heal it, leaves you to work against
that which is natural and a law of being. It is scientific to rob disease of
all reality; and to accomplish this, you cannot begin by admitting its
reality. Our Master taught his students to deny self, sense, and take up
the cross. Mental healers who admit that disease is real should be made
to test the feasibility of what they say by healing one case audibly,
through such an admission,--if this is possible. I have healed more
disease by the spoken than the unspoken word.
The honest student of Christian Science is modest in his claims and
conscientious in duty, waiting and working to mature what he has been
taught. Institutes furnished with such teachers are becoming
beacon-lights along the shores of erudition; and many who are not

teachers have large practices and some marked success in healing the
most defiant forms of disease.
Dishonesty destroys one's ability to heal mentally. Conceit cannot avert
the effects of deceit. Taking advantage of the present ignorance in
relation to Christian Science Mind-healing, many are flooding our land
with conflicting theories and practice. We should not spread abroad
patchwork ideas that in some vital