Article May 23, 1903 Issue

For the soul being turned by faith, as it were, into the...

For the soul being turned by faith, as it were, into the nature of water, quenches the demon as a spark of fire. The labor, therefore, of every one is to be solicitous about the putting to flight of his own demon. . . . Whence many, not knowing how they are influenced, consent to the evil that is suggested by the demons, as if they were the reasonings of their own souls. . . . Therefore the demons who lurk in their souls induce them to think that it is not a demon that is distressing them, but a bodily disease, such as some acrid matter, or bile, or phlegm, or excess of blood, or inflammation of a membrane, or something else. But even if this were so, the case would not be altered of its being some kind of a demon.

From "The Clementine Homilies" written by Clement of Alexandria, who died A. D. 220.

These writings are of unusual interest to Christian Scientists, showing, as they do, that the early Christians understood disease to be wholly mental, and its cure effected by means above human, that is, Divine.

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