[Christian Science by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChristian Science CHAPTER VI 16/18
The editor has a "claim," and he ought to get it treated. Among other witnesses there is one who had a "jumping toothache," which several times tempted her to "believe that there was sensation in matter, but each time it was overcome by the power of Truth." She would not allow the dentist to use cocaine, but sat there and let him punch and drill and split and crush the tooth, and tear and slash its ulcerations, and pull out the nerve, and dig out fragments of bone; and she wouldn't once confess that it hurt.
And to this day she thinks it didn't, and I have not a doubt that she is nine-tenths right, and that her Christian Science faith did her better service than she could have gotten out of cocaine. There is an account of a boy who got broken all up into small bits by an accident, but said over the Scientific Statement of Being, or some of the other incantations, and got well and sound without having suffered any real pain and without the intrusion of a surgeon. Also, there is an account of the restoration to perfect health, in a single night, of a fatally injured horse, by the application of Christian Science.
I can stand a good deal, but I recognize that the ice is getting thin, here.
That horse had as many as fifty claims; how could he demonstrate over them? Could he do the All-Good, Good-Good, Good-Gracious, Liver, Bones, Truth, All down but Nine, Set them up on the Other Alley? Could he intone the Scientific Statement of Being? Now, could he? Wouldn't it give him a relapse? Let us draw the line at horses.
Horses and furniture. There is plenty of other testimonies in the magazine, but these quoted samples will answer.
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