This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...mental suggestion of an absent healer, who usually puts her patient en rapport with herself by arranging the hour of the treatment. This hypnotic restraint of the 'active' mind sets free the 'subjective' mind to work, with its strange power, the 'suggestion' impressed upon it. CHAPTER V. THE DOCTRINE OF "CHRISTIAN ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...mental suggestion of an absent healer, who usually puts her patient en rapport with herself by arranging the hour of the treatment. This hypnotic restraint of the 'active' mind sets free the 'subjective' mind to work, with its strange power, the 'suggestion' impressed upon it. CHAPTER V. THE DOCTRINE OF "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE." A COUNTERFEIT dollar bill frequently passes current, and as long as its falseness is undetected it will purchase exactly as much as its legitimate representative. The possessor of the bill is quite satisfied with it. He rejoices in its possession, and until an expert discovers the fraud, and he suddenly becomes aware that his money has vanished, and he only possesses a piece of very dirty paper, he builds his hopes upon it. He may be depending upon it to defray a pressing liability. Imagine his revulsion of feeling when, at the moment he most needs it, it proves worthless, and leaves him unable to pay his lawful debt, a hopeless bankrupt! A no more momentous question can any one consider, than, upon what his hopes for eternity are built. Has he any certain assurance that when he closes his eyes on this world, he will be with Jesus Christ and his servants in Paradise, in the next world? In three chapters in S. Matthew's Gospel we have preserved for us " The Sermon on the Mount." It is the authoritative declaration by our Lord, wherein his teaching differed from that inculcated by the clergy of the day. A great many things they taught with which He agreed; these He does not mention; there is nothing here about public worship, although it was his wont to attend, and probably regularly attend, the Synagogue service. "Wist ye not," said He to his anxious mother, "that I must be in my Father's house?" Th...
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First edition; [viii], 111 pp, original green cloth (hardcover), ex library, else text clean & binding tight. -If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.