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grace appears, and where the miracles of [30]

      Jesus had their birth—healing the sick, casting out

      evils, and resurrecting the human sense to the belief

      [pg 078]

      that Life, God, is not buried in matter. This is the spirit- [1]

      ual dawn of the Messiah, and the overture of the

      angels. This is when God is made manifest in the

      flesh, and thus it destroys all sense of sin, sickness, and

      death—when the brightness of His glory encompasseth [5]

      all being.

      Can Christian Science Mind-healing be taught to those

      who are absent?

      The Science of Mind-healing can no more be taught

      thus, than can science in any other direction. I know [10]

      not how to teach either Euclid or the Science of Mind

      silently; and never dreamed that either of these partook

      of the nature of occultism, magic, alchemy, or necro-

      mancy. These “ways that are vain” are the inventions

      of animal magnetism, which would deceive, if possible, [15]

      the very elect. We will charitably hope, however, that

      some people employ the et cetera of ignorance and self-

      conceit unconsciously, in their witless ventilation of false

      statements and claims. Misguiding the public mind and

      taking its money in exchange for this abuse, has become [20]

      too common: we will hope it is the froth of error passing

      off; and that Christian Science will some time appear all

      the clearer for the purification of the public thought con-

      cerning it.

      Has man fallen from a state of perfection? [25]

      If God is the Principle of man (and He is), man is the

      idea of God; and this idea cannot fail to express the ex-

      act nature of its Principle—any more than goodness,

      to present the quality of good. Human hypotheses are

      always human vagaries, formulated views antagonistic [30]

      [pg 079]

      to the divine order and the nature of Deity. All these [1]

      mortal beliefs will be purged and dissolved in the cru-

      cible of Truth, and the places once knowing them will

      know them no more forever, having been swept clean

      by the winds of history. The grand verities of Science [5]

      will sift the chaff from the wheat, until it is clear to hu-

      man comprehension that man was, and is, God's perfect

      likeness, that reflects all whereby we can know God. In

      Him we live, move, and have being. Man's origin and

      existence being in Him, man is the ultimatum of per- [10]

      fection, and by no means the medium of imperfection.

      Immortal man is the eternal idea of Truth, that cannot

      lapse into a mortal belief or error concerning himself

      and his origin: he cannot get out of the focal distance of

      infinity. If God is upright and eternal, man as His like- [15]

      ness is erect in goodness and perpetual in Life, Truth,

      and Love. If the great cause is perfect, its effect is per-

      fect also; and cause and effect in Science are immutable

      and immortal. A mortal who is sinning, sick, and dying,

      is not immortal man; and never was, and never can be, [20]

      God's image and likeness, the true ideal of immortal

      man's divine Principle. The spiritual man is that per-

      fect and unfallen likeness, coexistent and coeternal with

      God. “As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be

      made alive.” [25]

      What course should Christian Scientists take in regard

      to aiding persons brought before the courts for violation of

      medical statutes?

      Beware of joining any medical league which in any

      way obligates you to assist—because they chance to be [30]

      under arrest—vendors of patent pills, mesmerists,

      [pg 080]

      occultists, sellers of impure literature, and authors of [1]

      spurious works on mental healing. By rendering error

      such a service, you lose much more than can be gained

      by mere unity on the single issue of opposition to unjust

      medical laws. [5]

      A league which obligates its members to give money

      and influence in support and defense of medical char-

      latans in general, and possibly to aid individual rights

      in a wrong direction—which Christian Science eschews

      —should be avoided. Anybody and everybody, who [10]

      will fight the medical faculty, can join this league. It is

      better to be friendly with cultured and conscientious

      medical men, who leave Christian Science to rise or fall

      on its own merit or demerit, than to affiliate with a wrong

      class of people. [15]

      Unconstitutional and unjust coercive legislation and

      laws, infringing individual rights, must be “of few days,

      and full of trouble.” The vox populi, through the provi-

      dence of God, promotes and impels all true reform; and,

      at the best time, will redress wrongs and rectify injus- [20]

      tice. Tyranny can thrive but feebly under our Govern-

      ment. God reigns, and will “turn and overturn” until

      right is found supreme.

      In a certain sense, we should commiserate the lot of

      regular doctors, who, in successive generations for cen- [25]

      turies, have planted and sown and reaped in the fields

      of what they deem pathology, hygiene, and therapeutics,

      but are now elbowed by a new school of practitioners,

      outdoing the healing of the old. The old will not patronize

      the new school, at least not until it shall come to understand [30]

      the medical system of the new.

      Christian Science Mind-healing rests demonstrably on

      [pg 081]

      the broad and sure foundation of Science; and this is [1]

      not the basis of materia medica, as some of the most

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