And so he was a healthy and cheerful man, now, and astonished.
But I am not astonished, for from other sources I know what must have been his method of applying Christian Science.

If I am in the right, he watchfully and diligently diverted his mind from unhealthy channels and compelled it to travel in healthy ones.

Nothing contrivable by human invention could be more formidably effective than that, in banishing imaginary ailments and in closing the entrances against sub-sequent applicants of their breed.

I think his method was to keep saying, "I am well! I am sound!--sound and well! well and sound! Perfectly sound, perfectly well! I have no pain; there's no such thing as pain! I have no disease; there's no such thing as disease! Nothing is real but Mind; all is Mind, All-Good Good-Good, Life, Soul, Liver, Bones, one of a series, ante and pass the buck!" I do not mean that that was exactly the formula used, but that it doubtless contains the spirit of it.

The Scientist would attach value to the exact formula, no doubt, and to the religious spirit in which it was used.