How much of the pain and disease in the world is created by the imaginations of the sufferers, and then kept alive by those same imaginations?
Four-fifths?
Not anything short of that, I should think.

Can Christian Science banish that four-fifths?
I think so.

Can any other (organized) force do it?
None that I know of.
Would this be a new world when that was accomplished?
And a pleasanter one--for us well people, as well as for those fussy and fretting sick ones?
Would it seem as if there was not as much gloomy weather as there used to be?
I think so.
In the mean time, would the Scientist kill off a good many patients?
I think so.

More than get killed off now by the legalized methods?
I will take up that question presently.
At present, I wish to ask you to examine some of the Scientist's performances, as registered in his magazine, The Christian Science Journal--October number, 1898.

First, a Baptist clergyman gives us this true picture of "the average orthodox Christian"-- and he could have added that it is a true picture of the average (civilized) human being: "He is a worried and fretted and fearful man; afraid of himself and his propensities, afraid of colds and fevers, afraid of treading on serpents or drinking deadly things." Then he gives us this contrast: "The average Christian Scientist has put all anxiety and fretting under his feet.