said. The bread he ate, which was refreshment of divine

strength, we also may all partake of.

The material record of the Bible, she said, is no more

important to our well-being than the history of Europe [20]

and America; but the spiritual application bears upon

our eternal life. The method of Jesus was purely meta-

physical; and no other method is Christian Science. In

the passage recording Jesus' proceedings with the blind

man (Mark viii.) he is said to have spat upon the dust. [25]

Spitting was the Hebrew method of expressing the utmost