Your very interesting letterEditorial Note: See 544.57.001. has just arrived and I hasten to reply.
The tone of your letter is right, it indicates the workings of the " little leavenMatt 13:33 ¶Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. Luke 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? Luke 13:21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. " of Christian science, which if the spirit be not quenched will " leaven the whole lump.Matt 13:33 ¶Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. Luke 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? Luke 13:21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. "
You ask why do you linger longer on this case of belief where the genital organs are the fears, and gout the manifestation? The ApostleEditorial Note: Paul says, " Know ye not that we are the servants of that to which we yield our selves servants to obeyRom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? ".
Mortal mind rests contentedly on the foundation error that man is conceived through the so called material senses, hence if pleasure of sense is real, is not the pain of sense as real also? Here the mortal thought weakens under its own argument, and all you gain over sexual disease is absolute scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science that rebukes both the so called pains or pleasures of sense. The gout is another manifestation animal, as a general thing, and requires a shock often-times to start its foundation to tumble into nothingness. Attack the appetites, if it be a case of common origin, and startle the dream into loathing itself and craving a higher sense of what supports happiness and is Life.
Treat the genital disease according to the sex, if a woman married, it is often Inflammation As Written: inflamation caused by compulsory indulgence, in which case, realize yourself the myth of mortal thought, that all its sense of action is but a dream. When nothing is done in the right direction, there has nothing been done, and no fear can cause inflamation, and inflamation cannot cause weakness, stricture, pain prolapsus, because matter cannot be inflamed and Mind is God and there is but one Mind and this Mind creates and acts independent of sexual organs!
There are no sexual organs, only in belief, for all is created, and man or woman are not Creators. Destroy the belief of sexuality or its results, take thought into its upper departments and you heal the disease I shall be pleased to hear from you Did you get the MagazineAs Written:Mag. I sent in sending it my hope was to give you sweet comfort in reading a sentence I marked. I have a great interest in your success and know that with “ clean hands and a pure heart,Ps 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? Ps 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. Ps 24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ” you will succeed and finally all cases will be healed. At first you must wait and work yourself up higher for God worketh with youPhil 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Phil 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. .
July 3rd
I open my letter to say on rereading yours I find some questions unanswered
Your reverie As Written: revery when treating the sick is a belief that comes of a vivid imagination and I would handle it with the intellect, confine myself to sober sound reason illumined by understanding, instead of imagination, and practice As Written: practise from a calm fixed sense of the nothingness of all error, and the conscious harmony of Spirit wherein are no outlines of mortal beliefs
The length of time in which to treat the sick depends solely on the periods of their waking from the dream of material sense. You can heal them with one treatment if that one wakens them, breaks the dream, and you must treat them until it is broken and then stop. I hear very false utterances of me and my teachings from Mr. Swartz and wife, also from Mrs. Coursen. I have just read a letter containing As Written: containg them that astounds me! Mrs. Coursen came to my College after she had finished with Mr. Osgood and said to me, and those in the anteroomAs Written:antiroom heard it, that she had learned nothing of Osgood, she wept as she said it. I pitied her very much and sold her my bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. telling her, that, would be a great aid to help her out of her darkness. I have befriended Mrs. Coursen and she has said more than once in the class, she saw clearly her way according to my teaching then she would deny it again. But I forgave all that because I knew it was malicious minds at work on her, and hoped she had sufficient honesty and moral strength to withstand them. I know it is hard for her when she has been a spiritualist, as I hear she has, to accept the very reverse of their views while this mental argument continues to try to prejudice her mind and to darken it. So I can forgive her and love her if she does me great wrong
Yours again,
Ever truly
⇉ Handshift:unknownJuly 3-1884