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"Fear made manifest"
Explaining her contention that all disease is mental in origin, Mrs. Eddy says: "Faith in rules of health or in drugs begets and fosters disease by attracting the mind to the subject of sickness, by exciting fear of disease, and by dosing the body in order to avoid it. The faith reposed in these things should find stronger supports and a higher home. If we understood the control of Mind over body, we should put no faith in material means" (Science and Health, p. 169). This also sustains her definition of disease as "fear made manifest on the body" (p. 493).
That the doctors are, to a certain extent at least, in agreement with these teachings, is indicated in an article in a recent issue of the Medical Record, in which the part that the fears of the patient play in the diseases of certain organs of the body is explained from the medical standpoint. Of these fears and the persons who entertain them the writer says: "The cases in question are those in which the patient, always normal and well, seems suddenly to have become obsessed with the idea that he is the possessor of some kind of a pathological process ... The patient who acquires such a phobia is often of an intelligent type, one who more than the average individual is conversant with medical terms and phrases. As a rule it is an individual who, either through the perusal of medical literature or in the course of conversation, becomes acquainted with the symptoms characteristic of organic conditions. It is the case of a little knowledge producing considerable harm."
January 27, 1917 issue
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Praising God
ERNEST C. MOSES
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Rising Above Popular Opinion
LUCY HAYS REYNOLDS
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"Thou art the man"
CAROLINE A. BALY
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Mortal Dream
MAUD MACRAE
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Ability versus Distrust
PEARLE M. WARREN
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Straight Lines and Plumb Lines
EDWARD A. STRONG
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Literature Distribution
C. A. CARR
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The author of an article relating to Christian Science,...
Judge Clifford P. Smith
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No one who has ever studied Mrs. Eddy's works could...
Henry Deutsch
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"Fear made manifest"
Archibald McLellan
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Guidance
Annie M. Knott
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The Lamb and the Wolf
William D. McCrackan
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The Lectures
with contributions from F. Lovell Lee, John M. Tutt, Vernon J. Lilly, Harold L. Ireland, Dean Collie
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Several years ago Christian Science was presented to me...
Mattie Beckenbach
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This testimony is given with a heart full of gratitude and...
Auguste Pfaender
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The Scriptural passage, "God is light, and in him is no...
Robert L. Sawyer
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Until a few years ago I was afflicted with a chronic bowel...
Flora Stewart McGraw
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Recently I was asked by a friend to give an instance of...
Annice Campbell
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The healing of a poisoned finger through the realization...
Darwin H. Goldsmith
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I am deeply grateful to be able to testify herewith to the...
Margarete Paetz
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Rest
EDITH L. PERKINS