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PREFACE.

LEANING on the sustaining Infinite, to-day is big

with blessings. The wakeful shepherd beholds the first faint morning beams ere cometh the full radiance of a risen day. So shone the pale star to the prophetshepherds; yet it traversed the night, over to where, in cradled obscurity, lay the young child who should redeem mortals, and reduce to human understanding the way of salvation. Now, across a night of error, dawn the morning beams, and shines the guiding orb of Truth. The wise men are led to behold and follow the daystar of Divine Science, as it repeats the eternal harmony.

The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past, and the cold conventionality of materialism, no longer bar the door to progress. Though empires fall, "He whose right it is shall reign." Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guaranty of obedience is a right apprehension of Him "whom to know aright is life eternal."

A book is inadequate to introduce new thoughts and make them speedily understood. It is the sturdy task of the pioneer to hack the tall oak and cut the rough

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granite. Future ages must declare what the pioneer has accomplished.

Since my discovery of the adaptation of Truth to the treatment of disease, my system has been fully tested and not found wanting; but to reach the heights of Christian Science man must live in obedience to its Divine Principle. To develop the full glory of this Science, the discords of personal sense must yield to harmony; even as the science of sound corrects false tones caught by the ear, and gives the sweet concord of music.

Theology and Physics agree that both Matter and Spirit are real and right; whereas the fact is that one is good, and the other its opposite. Demonstration will answer by evidence the question, What is Truth? and prosper that method of Christian healing found to give the most health and make the best men. Christian Science will thus have a fair fight. Sickness has had its doctors; but the question arises, Is there less sickness because of these practitioners. The longevity of the Antediluvians answers, No!

The cowardly claim that I am not the originator of my own writings, but that one P. P. Quimby is, has been legally met and punished. The departed, help lessly dragged into this mad scheme, is silent on earth, or with honest pride he would deny this post mortem falsehood.

Mr. Quimby died in 1865, and my first knowledge of Christian Science, or Metaphysical Healing, was gained in 1866. He was an uneducated man; but he was a distinguished mesmerist, and personally manipulated his patients. This I know, having been one of them. When he doctored me I was ignorant of the nature of mesmerism,

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