Science and Health, Chapter XII: Christian Science Practice (christianscience.com)
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SUMMARY
The church's own current official online presentation of Chapter XII of Science and Health (HTTP 200, 604,103 bytes). Reproduces, at the page's own citation locator SH 390:27-391:6, the passage naming cancer, consumption, and smallpox: '"Agree to disagree" with approaching symptoms of chronic or acute disease, whether it is cancer, consumption, or smallpox. Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. Blot out the images of mortal thought and its beliefs in sickness and sin. Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, Christ, the judge will say, "Thou art whole!"' The passage is expressly scoped to approaching symptoms and incipient stages of the three named conditions. This source proves reproduction of this wording in the church's own current official online capture only; it is not evidence of print pagination, sale, stock, purchase, or clinical efficacy.
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The First Church of Christ, Scientist’s own current official web presentation of Eddy’s textbook, used to establish that the “approaching symptoms” / “incipient stages” named-disease passage (cancer, consumption, smallpox) is presented, in this exact wording, on the church’s own live site today — the qualifying historical promise as the church itself currently republishes it, not independent evidence of the passage’s effect.