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had learned that this
Science must be 1876, as she had learned that this Science must be
demonstrated by healing, before a work on the subject ix:24 could be
profitably studied. From 1867 until 1875, copies were, however, in
friendly circulation. Before writing this work, SCIENCE AND
HEALTH, she ix:27 made copious notes of Scriptural exposition,
which have never been published. This was during the years 1867 and
1868. These efforts show her comparative ix:30 ignorance of the
stupendous Life-problem up to that time, and the degrees by which she
came at length to its solution; but she values them as a parent x:1 may
treasure the memorials of a child's growth, and she would not have
them changed.
x:3 The first edition of SCIENCE AND HEALTH was pub- lished in
1875. Various books on mental healing have since been issued, most of
them incorrect in theory x:6 and filled with plagiarisms from SCIENCE
AND HEALTH. They regard the human mind as a healing agent,
whereas this mind is not a factor in the Principle of x:9 Christian
Science. A few books, however, which are based on this book, are
useful. The author has not compromised conscience to suit x:12 the
general drift of thought, but has bluntly and hon- estly given the text of
Truth. She has made no effort to embellish, elaborate, or treat in full
detail so in- x:15 finite a theme. By thousands of well-authenticated
cases of healing, she and her students have proved the worth of her
teachings. These cases for the most part x:18 have been abandoned as
hopeless by regular medical attendants. Few invalids will turn to God
till all physical supports have failed, because there is so little x:21 faith
in His disposition and power to heal disease. The divine Principle of
healing is proved in the personal experience of any sincere seeker of
Truth. Its x:24 purpose is good, and its practice is safer and more po-

tent than that of any other sanitary method. The un- biased Christian
thought is soonest touched by Truth, x:27 and convinced of it. Only
those quarrel with her method who do not understand her meaning, or
dis- cerning the truth, come not to the light lest their x:30 works be
reproved. No intellectual proficiency is req- uisite in the learner, but
sound morals are most de- sirable.
xi:1 Many imagine that the phenomena of physical heal- ing in
Christian Science present only a phase of the xi:3 action of the human
mind, which action in some unex- plained way results in the cure of
disease. On the con- trary, Christian Science rationally explains that all
xi:6 other pathological methods are the fruits of human faith in matter,
faith in the workings, not of Spirit, but of the fleshly mind which must
yield to Science.
xi:9 The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus'
time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and
disease lose their real- xi:12 ity in human consciousness and disappear
as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin
to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works xi:15 are not
supernatural, but supremely natural. They are the sign of Immanuel, or
"God with us," a divine influence ever present in human consciousness
and re- xi:18 peating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime, To
preach deliverance to the captives [of sense], And recovering of sight to
the blind, xi:21 To set at liberty them that are bruised. When God
called the author to proclaim His Gospel to this age, there came also the
charge to plant and xi:24 water His vineyard. The first school of
Christian Science Mind-healing was started by the author with only one
student in xi:27 Lynn, Massachusetts, about the year 1867. In 1881, she
opened the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in Boston, under the
seal of the Commonwealth, a law xi:30 relative to colleges having been
passed, which enabled her to get this institution chartered for medical
pur- xii:1 poses. No charters were granted to Christian Scien- tists for
such institutions after 1883, and up to that xii:3 date, hers was the only
College of this character which had been established in the United
States, where Christian Science was first introduced.
xii:6 During seven years over four thousand students were taught by
the author in this College. Meanwhile she was pastor of the first
established Church of xii:9 Christ, Scientist; President of the first

Christian Sci- entist Association, convening monthly; publisher of her
own works; and (for a portion of this time) sole xii:12 editor and
publisher of the Christian Science Journal, the first periodical issued by
Christian Scientists. She closed her College, October 29, 1889, in the
height of xii:15 its prosperity with a deep-lying conviction that the next
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