19. Science and Health, 1899, p. xi; cf. p. 5: "Christian Science is natural but not physical. The true Science of God and man is no more supernatural than is the science of numbers"; p. 249: " Mir- acles are impossible in Science." Even the resurrection of Christ was not supernatural: "Can it be called supernatural for the God of nature to sustain Jesus, in his proof of man's truly derived power ? It was a method of surgery beyond material art, but it was not a supernatural act. On the contrary, it was a distinctly natural act . . ." (p. 349). "Mary Baker Eddy," says a writer in the Christian Science Journal for April, 1889, "has worked out before us as on a blackboard every point in the temptations and demon- strations— or so-called Miracles — of Jesus, showing us how to meet and overcome the one, and how to perform the other." All is natural in Mrs. Eddy's universe.
20. The Christian Religion as a Healing Power, p. 19.
21. Christian Thought, February, 1890.
22. On "the pedigree of Christian Science," see the admirable article under that title by Frank Podmore in The Contemporary Re- view for January, 1909, vol. XCV, pp. 37-49; and, of course, more at large, Frank Podmore, Mesmerism and Christian Science : a Short History of Mental Healing, 1909.
23. Mrs. Eddy herself speaks with contempt of Faith-Healing as "one belief casting out another — a belief in the unknown casting out a belief in disease." "It is not Truth itself which does this," she declares; "nor is it the human understanding of the divine heal- ing Principle" (Science and Health, 1899, p. 317).
24. These admissions are greatly modified in Science and Health, 1899, p. 397. Here it is taught, as the Index puts it, that faith- cure "often soothes but only changes the form of the ailment." "Faith removes bodily ailments for a season; or else it changes those ills into new and more difficult forms of disease, until at length the Science of Mind comes to the rescue and works a radical cure."
25. Christian Science Healing, its Principles and Practice, 1888, p. 102.
26. Retrospection and Introspection,17 1900, p. 38 (first printed in 1891).
27. Ibid. In Science and Health, 1899, p. 107, she writes: "In the year 1866 I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science. God had been graciously preparing me during many years for the re-
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ception of this final revelation of the absolute divine Principle of scientific mental healing."
28. Mrs. Eddy's relations to P. P. Quimby have been made quite clear and placed on a firm basis by Georgine Milmine in a series of articles published in McClure's Magazine for 1907-1908, and afterward in book form, The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science, 1909; and by Lyman P. Powell, Chris- tian Science, the Faith and its Founder, 1907; see also Frank Pod- more, Mesmerism and Christian Science, 1909, chap, xiv, "The Rise of Mental Healing," and Annetta Gertrude Dresser, The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby, 1895. Quimby's fundamental principle is summed up in his conviction that the cause and cure of disease lie in mental states. His practice was to talk with his patients about their diseases, to explain to them that disease is an error, and to "estab- lish the truth in its place, which, if done, was the cure." "I give no medicines," he says, "I simply sit by the patient's side and ex- plain to him what he thinks is his disease, and my explanation is the cure; . . . the truth is the cure." "My way of curing," he writes in 1862, the year in which Mrs. Eddy went to him as a pa- tient, "convinces him (the patient) that he has been deceived; and, if I succeed, the patient is cured." The Pantheistic back- ground appears to have been less prominently thrust forward by Quimby than by Mrs. Eddy, and it would seem that her "dis- covery" consists wholly in this possible change of emphasis.
29. This is sufficiently characteristic to deserve emphasis. Mrs. Eddy (who describes herself as "the tireless toiler for the truth's new birth") ever assumed the r61e of thinker and teacher rather than of healer; the healing she delegated to her pupils. "I have never made a specialty of treating disease," she writes, "but heal- ing has accompanied all my efforts to introduce Christian Science." By taking the course she did, she understood herself to be assum- ing the more difficult task: "Healing," she said, "is easier than teaching, if the teaching is faithfully done" (Science and Health, 1899, p. 372). She was accustomed to print at the end of the preface to Science and Health this: "Note. — The author takes no patients and declines medical consultation." Nevertheless, in a by-law of 1903, she declares "healing better than teaching" (Mc- Clure's Magazine, May, 1908, p. 28).