Personally,  I  have  made  a  very  careful  exami-
nation of  evidence  in  favor  of  the  cure  of  disease
by  Christian  Science,  and,  for  myself,  am  con-
vinced that  so-called  diseases  which  have  been
called  incurable  by  competent  physicians,  have
been  cured  by  metaphysical  means.  Also  so  far
as  I  am  concerned,  I  do  not  propose  to  dodge  the
issue  by  saying  that,  within  the  limits  of  medical
knowledge,  a  mistake  has  been  made  in  naming
the  particular  difficulty  under  which  the  patient
suffered.
On  the  other  hand,  there  appears  to  be  ample
evidence  of  the  cure  of  disease  by  what  were
supposed  to  be  medical  means,  but  I  am  rather
suspicious,  as  will  hereafter  appear,  that  the
medicine  part  of  the  cure  had  less  to  do  with  the
cure  than  is  commonly  thought.  Here  I  admit  in
advance  of  having  someone  call  my  attention  to
it,  that  beyond  my  intuitions  and  speculations,
and  those  of  some  doctors,  I  have  no  means  of
knowing  that  to  be  a  fact.  The  whole  difficulty
appears  to  me  to  grow  out  of  a  disinclination  on
one  side  of  the  argument  to  place  any  reliance  in


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testimony  not  confirmed  by  the  physical  senses,
and  a  disinclination  on  the  other  side  of  the
argument  to  place  reliance  on  any  testimony  not
confirmed  by  the  spiritual  senses.
