heir Devil in the form of a
Doctor, and Hell in the shape of a Hospital.

My hope and expectation is that Christian Science will become a Rational
Religion instead of a one-man institution, or a religion of authority,
such as it now is. Its superstitious features have doubtless been strong
factors in its rapid growth--serving as stays or stocks to aid in the
launching.

But now, the sooner the ship floats free the better. Christian
Scientists, being men and women, can not continue to grow if fettered
with an Index Expurgatorius and mandatory edicts and encyclicals. That
which binds and manacles must go--the good will remain.

Christian Science brings good news, and good news is always curative.
Mrs. Eddy animated her patients with a new thought--the thought of
harmony, the denial of disease, and the affirmation that God is good and
life is beautiful. The animation thus produced is in itself the most
powerful healing principle known to science. Life is born of love. Joy
is a prophylactic. Christian Science comes to the "student" as a great
flood of light. His circulation becomes normal, his muscles relax, the
nerves rest, digestion acts, elimination takes place--and the person is
well.

Fear has congested the organs--love, hope and faith place them in an
attitude so Nature plays through them. The patient is healed. In it
there is neither mystery nor miracle. It is all very simple.

Let us rid ourselves of a belief in the strange and occult! The
Christian Science organization is an expediency. It is an intellectual
crutch. The book is a necessity. It is a scaffolding. Yet he who
mistakes the scaffolding for the edifice is a specialist in scaffolding.

Truth can never be caught and crystallized in a formula. Also this:
truth can never be monopolized by an "ite" or an "ist." Eventually the
label will be eliminated with the scaffolding, and the lumber of ritual
and rite will have to go.

We will live truth instead of talking about it. Among Christian
Scientists there are no drunkards, paupers or gamblers. Also, there are
no sick people. To them sickness is a disgrace.

Orthodox Christians get sick and gratify their sense of approbation by
receiving pastoral calls and visits from the doctor and neighbors. The
biblical injunction to visit the sick was never followed by Mrs.
Eddy--she always decided for herself just what injunctions should be
waived and what followed.

Those which she did not like she interpreted spi