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HAVE BEEN_CURED
JBY THE STUDY AXD -4 VPI.TCATION OF
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
A copy of Life contains a very funny picture
cf a circus tent, on the outside of which stand
two boys viewing'with delighted, wide opened
eyes the colossal picture of an elephant bal
ancing himself on a tiny stool by means of the
tip end of his tali. The first boy asks: “Billy,
do you b’lcve that’s true?” and the second re
plies, “Lawk! Johnny, I don’t b’leve there
ain’t nothin’ what an elephant can’t do."
Billy represents the attitude of the whole
human race in regard to physical power.
Grown men and women accept without a
doubt the facts stated on circus bills concern
ing the acrobat and his fifty double somer
saults; the t rapczlst swing! ng by his groat too,
the man biting ten penny nails in two and a
lot of other things quite as wonderful.
When it comes to the power of mind, how
dofferently its manifestations aro regarded.
The majority of humanity either refutes
with a sneer the idea of spiritual con
trol over earthly things, or seeing some manip
ulation of such power, becomes frightened
nud superstitious, declaring it an uncanny
thing not to be meddled ygth.
