human
It may seem strange to you as it did to me at first, but I see it clearly now, that desiring, searching and living for right, brings the body into harmonious expression. If we think truth, we see it expressed in harmony, beauty, symmetry, because the external is the expression of the internal.
gpt
It was particularly by the denial of matter that I lost the superfluous flesh, for since I was too fleshy to be of symmetrical form, it was superfluous and----
human
Did you know the denial of matter would have such an effect?
gpt
No, not till I heard some of the rest of the class speaking of it, and then I could hardly believe it, but after I understood the theory better, of course it seemed more reasonable.
human
It is both wonderful and reasonable too, I think. Why didn't you write something about it?
gpt
Oh, there are many things that can be told better than written.
human
And many things that can be thought better than told,
gpt
Another lady in the class had about the same experience,
human
But tell us the scientific reason for such an effect?
gpt
I will, as well as I can. Have you noticed that it is people who are materially minded in their tastes and habits that are apt to be fleshy?
human
That depends upon what you would call materially minded,
gpt
I mean those who like what the world calls the good things of life--those who think a great deal of material pleasures or environments, and find it comparatively difficult to think or realize spiritual things.
human
Oh!----yes, I believe that is true, although I have never thought of it,
gpt
Because the denial of matter makes all these things secondary, the effect of the new thought is to make the body more spiritual.
human
Of course! Why could we not see it before?
gpt
What effect then, has this denial on lean people?
human
It does not effect them like the denial of evil, because material things are not so important to them, while they are apt to be pining and fretting about the evils and ills in the world, either as touching themselves or humanity in general. Denying evil and evil conditions would then have the opposite effect, and cause them to gain flesh, or grow into the expression of physical harmony to correspond with the spiritual.
gpt
This is only a higher reading of what we have already learned, and it is lovely to know we may go on indefinitely, ever reading something new,
human
Now tell me something of what _you_ have all been doing?
gpt
Oh, Kate has been doing some wonderful treating among her pupils, and the patients we took up, are all doing nicely.
human
Grace is very modest. She doesn't say a word of how quickly she cured me of neuralgia, or a horrible fit of the blues,
gpt
Mr. Hayden has a good report for himself and the children, too, though I suppose you have heard from him, Grace remarked with a smile. He looked rather pleased at her thoughtfulness, but said:
human
I would rather hear more from Marion. Were there many cures in the class?
gpt
Several. Mrs. Dexter, the lady I mentioned in my letters as having been a long while under the doctor's care, went home perfectly well, and Miss Singleton also, of whom I wrote. A gentleman who had been in a previous class told his experience. His right arm had been fractured in the army. Orders were given that it should be amputated, but by the intervention of a physician with whom he was acquainted, the arm was saved, though he had never been able to use it much. At times it was very painful. It was so weak he could scarcely lift a plate of bread to pass it at the table. After a few lessons, that arm was just as well as the other. In his joy he told everybody. When the doctors got hold of it, they laughed at him saying if that arm was as large as the other in six months, they would believe there was something in Christian Healing. In six weeks it was as large and strong and sound as the other.
human
That was remarkable, said Mr. Hayden, speaking for all.
gpt
Did you hear anything about treating animals?
human
Oh, yes. We may think of an animal as the perfect expression of God's thought, as manifesting the true Life, the same as human beings.
gpt
After all, said Kate,
human
Certainly, and we are not proving our right, till we prove the dominion, answered Mrs. Hayden.
gpt
It is a beautiful thought to me, and several of the class told of successful work in this line. One lady had treated a frightened horse, and made him so gentle any one could drive him. It is mostly fear that is reflected upon animals. They manifest thought, even as humanity does.
human
I have often noticed horses. They are apt to show the same disposition as their masters. This explains it, said Mr. Hayden thoughtfully.
gpt
Why didn't you write about all this?
human
I was afraid it would be too strong meat for you, for I could scarcely realize it myself.
gpt
It seems as though we have had so many wonderful suggestions it will take a life time to understand them,
human
There is no end to the study of Infinity,
gpt
How do you account for the _quick_ cures?