If a crisis occurs in your treatment, you must treat
the patient less for the disease, and more for the mental
A crisis.
fermentation, and subdue the symptoms, by
removing the belief that this chemicalization
produces pain. Insist vehemently on the great fact
which covers the whole ground, — namely, God is all,
that there is none beside Him. When the supposed
suffering is gone from mortal mind, there can be no
pain; and when the fear is destroyed, the inflammation
will subside. Calm the fear and confusion induced by
chemicalization, which is the alterative effect produced
by Truth on error; and sometimes explain the symptoms
and their cause to the patient.
It is no more Christianly Scientific to see disease than it is to experience it. If you would destroy the sense of Vision and perversion. disease, you should not build it up by wishing to see the forms it assumes, or by applying a single material application for its relief. The perversion of Mind-Science is like asserting that the products of eight multiplied by five, and of seven by ten, are both forty, and that their combined sum is fifty, and then calling the process mathematical. Wiser than his persecutors, Jesus said: “If I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?”
If the reader of this book observes a great stir throughout the whole system, and certain moral and physical Effect of this book. symptoms seem aggravated, these indications are favorable. Continue to read, and the book will become the physician, allaying the tremor which Truth often brings to error when destroying it.
Patients unfamiliar with the cause of this commotion, and ignorant that it is a favorable omen, may be alarmed
