[Christian Science by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChristian Science CHAPTER XV 10/77
And I think the reason--and the only reason--that he has not protested is because his work was not exposed to print until after he was safely dead. That with an eye to business, and by grace of her business talent, she has restored to the world neglected and abandoned features of the Christian religion which her thousands of followers find gracious and blessed and contenting, I recognize and confess; but I am convinced that every single detail of the work except just that one--the delivery of the Product to the world--was conceived and performed by another. APPENDIX A ORIGINAL FIRST PREFACE TO SCIENCE AND HEALTH There seems a Christian necessity of learning God's power and purpose to heal both mind and body.
This thought grew out of our early seeking Him in all our ways, and a hopeless as singular invalidism that drugs increased instead of diminished, and hygiene benefited only for a season.
By degrees we have drifted into more spiritual latitudes of thought, and experimented as we advanced until demonstrating fully the power of mind over the body.
About the year 1862, having heard of a mesmerist in Portland who was treating the sick by manipulation, we visited him; he helped us for a time, then we relapsed somewhat.
After his decease, and a severe casualty deemed fatal by skilful physicians, we discovered that the Principle of all healing and the law that governs it is God, a divine Principle, and a spiritual not material law, and regained health. It was not an individual or mortal mind acting upon another so-called mind that healed us.
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