Article October 27, 1917 Issue

"Like devastating witch-grass"

NELLIE B. MACE

Once overcome through the scientific understanding of Mind, a diseased or discordant condition does not recur. Christian Science heals sickness beyond the possibility of recurrence. If there should seem to be a relapse, the error which bases the belief of repetition may be scientifically uncovered and removed. The suffering from which Christian Science has once relieved a man cannot return any more than a nettle which has been pulled up can again appear. If another manifestation like the one destroyed arises, this can only mean that the rudimentary belief which bears this particular discord has not yet been extirpated.

The real work of Christian Science is to destroy the belief in materialism which infolds the germinal root and stem of disease and nourishes its outspringing manifestations. The overcoming of the false mentality is the way to healing beyond recurrence. Mrs. Eddy makes this sufficiently clear on page 217 of Science and Health, where she says, "When you have once conquered a diseased condition of the body through Mind, that condition never recurs, and you have won a point in Science." The human mind persists in a self-fettering system of association. Certain circumstances or conditions are supposed to produce certain results. If similar circumstances reappear, the identical outcome is expected; and as men first see subjectively before seeing the object, if a false conception be fostered, the manifestation usually appears just as it was believed it would. Heredity, contagion, war, illustrate this point.

Recurrence does not come from any inherent power in what is called disease to bring itself back. Repetition is only a part of the material conception from which disease arose in the first place. Christian Science points to the need for deeper healing in such an event. It lifts the very root of belief in evil out of its native soil. More than this, it eliminates, slowly it may seem, but surely, the carnal mind itself, the soil and subsoil in which the embryo weeds of fear, passions, and all sensuousness take root and from which they derive their sustenance.

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