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5      St. Paul speaks of the new birth as “waiting for the
         adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” The
         great Nazarene Prophet said, “Blessed are the pure in
         heart: for they shall see God.” Nothing aside from the
         spiritualization — yea, the highest Christianization — of
10    thought and desire, can give the true perception of God
         and divine Science, that results in health, happiness, and
         holiness.

         The new birth is not the work of a moment. It begins
         with moments, and goes on with years; moments of sur-
15    render to God, of childlike trust and joyful adoption
         of good; moments of self-abnegation, self-consecration,
         heaven-born hope, and spiritual love.

         Time may commence, but it cannot complete, the
         new birth: eternity does this; for progress is the law
20    of infinity. Only through the sore travail of mortal mind
         shall soul as sense be satisfied, and man awake in His
         likeness. What a faith-lighted thought is this! that
         mortals can lay off the “old man,” until man is found
         to be the image of the infinite good that we name God,
25    and the fulness of the stature of man in Christ appears.

         In mortal and material man, goodness seems in em-
         bryo. By suffering for sin, and the gradual fading out
         of the mortal and material sense of man, thought is de-
         veloped into an infant Christianity; and, feeding at first
30    on the milk of the Word, it drinks in the sweet revealings

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1      of a new and more spiritual Life and Love. These nourish
         the hungry hope, satisfy more the cravings for immor-
         tality, and so comfort, cheer, and bless one, that he saith:
         In mine infancy, this is enough of heaven to come down
5      to earth.

         But, as one grows into the manhood or womanhood
         of Christianity, one finds so much lacking, and so very
         much requisite to become wholly Christlike, that one
         saith: The Principle of Christianity is infinite: it is
10    indeed God; and this infinite Principle hath infinite
         claims on man, and these claims are divine, not human;
         and man’s ability to meet them is from God; for, being
         His likeness and image, man must reflect the full
         dominion of Spirit — even its supremacy over sin, sick-
15    ness, and death.

         Here, then, is the awakening from the dream of life
         in matter, to the great fact that God is the only Life;
         that, therefore, we must entertain a higher sense of both
         God and man. We must learn that God is infinitely
20    more than a person, or finite form, can contain; that
         God is a divine Whole, and All, an all-pervading in-
         telligence and Love, a divine, infinite Principle; and
         that Christianity is a divine Science. This newly
         awakened consciousness is wholly spiritual; it emanates
25    from Soul instead of body, and is the new birth begun
         in Christian Science.

         Now, dear reader, pause for a moment with me, earn-
         estly to contemplate this new-born spiritual altitude; for
         this statement demands demonstration.

30    Here you stand face to face with the laws of infinite
         Spirit, and behold for the first time the irresistible con-
         flict between the flesh and Spirit. You stand before the

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1      awful detonations of Sinai. You hear and record the
         thunderings of the spiritual law of Life, as opposed to
         the material law of death; the spiritual law of Love, as
         opposed to the material sense of love; the law of om-
5      nipotent harmony and good, as opposed to any supposi-
         titious law of sin, sickness, or death. And, before the
         flames have died away on this mount of revelation, like
         the patriarch of old, you take off your shoes — lay aside
         your material appendages, human opinions and doc-
10    trines, give up your more material religion with its rites
         and ceremonies, put off your materia medica and hygiene
         as worse than useless — to sit at the feet of Jesus. Then,
         you meekly bow before the Christ, the spiritual idea
         that our great Master gave of the power of God to heal
15    and to save. Then it is that you behold for the first
         time the divine Principle that redeems man from under
         the curse of materialism, — sin, disease, and death.
         This spiritual birth opens to the enraptured understand-
         ing a much higher and holier conception of the supremacy
20    of Spirit, and of man as His likeness, whereby man reflects
         the divine power to heal the sick.

         A material or human birth is the appearing of a mor-
         tal, not the immortal man. This birth is more or less
         prolonged and painful, according to the timely or un-
25    timely circumstances, the normal or abnormal material
         conditions attending it.

         With the spiritual birth, man’s primitive, sinless,
         spiritual existence dawns on human thought, — through
         the travail of mortal mind, hope deferred, the perishing
30    pleasure and accumulating pains of sense, — by which
         one loses himself as matter, and gains a truer sense of
         Spirit and spiritual man.

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1      The purification or baptismals that come from Spirit,
         develop, step by step, the original likeness of perfect man,
         and efface the mark of the beast. “Whom the Lord
         loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom
5      He receiveth;” therefore rejoice in tribulation, and wel-
         come these spiritual signs of the new birth under the law
         and gospel of Christ, Truth.

         The prominent laws which forward birth in the divine
         order of Science, are these: “Thou shalt have no other
10    gods before me;” “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
         These commands of infinite wisdom, translated into
         the new tongue, their spiritual meaning, signify: Thou
         shalt love Spirit only, not its opposite, in every God-
         quality, even in substance; thou shalt recognize thy-
15    self as God’s spiritual child only, and the true man
         and true woman, the all-harmonious “male and female,”
         as of spiritual origin, God’s reflection, — thus as chil-
         dren of one common Parent, — wherein and whereby
         Father, Mother, and child are the divine Principle and
20    divine idea, even the divine “Us” — one in good, and
         good in One.

         With this recognition man could never separate him-
         self from good, God; and he would necessarily entertain
         habitual love for his fellow-man. Only by admitting
25    evil as a reality, and entering into a state of evil
         thoughts, can we in belief separate one man’s interests
         from those of the whole human family, or thus attempt
         to separate Life from God. This is the mistake that
         causes much that must be repented of and overcome.
30    Not to know what is blessing you, but to believe that
         aught that God sends is unjust, — or that those whom
         He commissions bring to you at His demand that which

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1      is unjust,—is wrong and cruel. Envy, evil thinking,
         evil speaking, covetousness, lust, hatred, malice, are
         always wrong, and will break the rule of Christian
         Science and prevent its demonstration; but the rod of
5      God, and the obedience demanded of His servants in
         carrying out what He teaches them, — these are never
         unmerciful, never unwise.

         The task of healing the sick is far lighter than that
         of so teaching the divine Principle and rules of Chris-
10    tian Science as to lift the affections and motives of men
         to adopt them and bring them out in human lives. He
         who has named the name of Christ, who has virtually
         accepted the divine claims of Truth and Love in divine
         Science, is daily departing from evil; and all the wicked
15    endeavors of suppositional demons can never change the
         current of that life from steadfastly flowing on to God,
         its divine source.

         But, taking the livery of heaven wherewith to cover
         iniquity, is the most fearful sin that mortals can commit.
20    I should have more faith in an honest drugging-doctor,
         one who abides by his statements and works upon as
         high a basis as he understands, healing me, than I could
         or would have in a smooth-tongued hypocrite or mental
         malpractitioner.

25    Between the centripetal and centrifugal mental forces
         of material and spiritual gravitations, we go into or we
         go out of materialism or sin, and choose our course and
         its results. Which, then, shall be our choice, — the sin-
         ful, material, and perishable, or the spiritual, joy-giving,
30    and eternal?

         The spiritual sense of Life and its grand pursuits is
         of itself a bliss, health-giving and joy-inspiring. This

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1      sense of Life illumes our pathway with the radiance of
         divine Love; heals man spontaneously, morally and
         physically, — exhaling the aroma of Jesus’ own words,
         “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
5      and I will give you rest.”

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         Scholastic theology elaborates the proposition that
15    evil is a factor of good, and that to believe in the reality
         of evil is essential to a rounded sense of the existence of
         good.

         This frail hypothesis is founded upon the basis of mate-
         rial and mortal evidence — only upon what the shifting
20    mortal senses confirm and frail human reason accepts.
         The Science of Soul reverses this proposition, overturns
         the testimony of the five erring senses, and reveals in
         clearer divinity the existence of good only; that is, of
         God and His idea.

25    This postulate of divine Science only needs to be con-
         ceded, to afford opportunity for proof of its correctness
         and the clearer discernment of good.

         Seek the Anglo-Saxon term for God, and you will
         find it to be good; then define good as God, and you
30    will find that good is omnipotence, has all power; it fills

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1      all space, being omnipresent; hence, there is neither place
         nor power left for evil. Divest your thought, then, of
         the mortal and material view which contradicts the ever-
         presence and all-power of good; take in only the immor-
5      tal facts which include these, and where will you see or
         feel evil, or find its existence necessary either to the origin
         or ultimate of good?

         It is urged that, from his original state of perfec-
         tion, man has fallen into the imperfection that requires
10    evil through which to develop good. Were we to
         admit this vague proposition, the Science of man could
         never be learned; for in order to learn Science, we
         begin with the correct statement, with harmony and
         its Principle; and if man has lost his Principle and
15    its harmony, from evidences before him he is inca-
         pable of knowing the facts of existence and its con-
         comitants: therefore to him evil is as real and eternal
         as good, God! This awful deception is evil’s umpire
         and empire, that good, God, understood, forcibly
20    destroys.

         What appears to mortals from their standpoint to be
         the necessity for evil, is proven by the law of opposites
         to be without necessity. Good is the primitive Princi-
         ple of man; and evil, good’s opposite, has no Principle,
25    and is not, and cannot be, the derivative of good.
         Thus evil is neither a primitive nor a derivative, but
         is suppositional; in other words, a lie that is incapable
         of proof—therefore, wholly problematical.

         The Science of Truth annihilates error, deprives evil
30    of all power, and thereby destroys all error, sin, sickness,
         disease, and death. But the sinner is not sheltered from
         suffering from sin: he makes a great reality of evil, iden-

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1      tifies himself with it, fancies he finds pleasure in it, and
         will reap what he sows; hence the sinner must endure
         the effects of his delusion until he awakes from it.

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         Who is thine enemy that thou shouldst love him? Is
10    it a creature or a thing outside thine own creation?

         Can you see an enemy, except you first formulate this
         enemy and then look upon the object of your own con-
         ception? What is it that harms you? Can height, or
         depth, or any other creature separate you from the
15    Love that is omnipresent good, — that blesses infinitely
         one and all?

         Simply count your enemy to be that which defiles,
         defaces, and dethrones the Christ-image that you should
         reflect. Whatever purifies, sanctifies, and consecrates
20    human life, is not an enemy, however much we suffer in
         the process. Shakespeare writes: “Sweet are the uses
         of adversity.” Jesus said: “Blessed are ye, when men
         shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all
         manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake; … for
25    so persecuted they the prophets which were before
         you.”

         The Hebrew law with its “Thou shalt not,” its de-
         mand and sentence, can only be fulfilled through the
         gospel’s benediction. Then, “Blessed are ye,” inso-

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1      much as the consciousness of good, grace, and peace,
         comes through affliction rightly understood, as sanctified
         by the purification it brings to the flesh, — to pride, self-
         ignorance, self-will, self-love, self-justification. Sweet,
5      indeed, are these uses of His rod! Well is it that the
         Shepherd of Israel passes all His flock under His rod
         into His fold; thereby numbering them, and giving them
         refuge at last from the elements of earth.

         “Love thine enemies” is identical with “Thou hast
10    no enemies.” Wherein is this conclusion relative to
         those who have hated thee without a cause? Simply, in
         that those unfortunate individuals are virtually thy best
         friends. Primarily and ultimately, they are doing thee
         good far beyond the present sense which thou canst enter-
15    tain of good.

         Whom we call friends seem to sweeten life’s cup and
         to fill it with the nectar of the gods. We lift this cup
         to our lips; but it slips from our grasp, to fall in frag-
         ments before our eyes. Perchance, having tasted its
20    tempting wine, we become intoxicated; become lethar-
         gic, dreamy objects of self-satisfaction; else, the con-
         tents of this cup of selfish human enjoyment having lost
         its flavor, we voluntarily set it aside as tasteless and
         unworthy of human aims.

25    And wherefore our failure longer to relish this fleet-
         ing sense, with its delicious forms of friendship,
         wherewith mortals become educated to gratification in
         personal pleasure and trained in treacherous peace?
         Because it is the great and only danger in the path
30    that winds upward. A false sense of what consti-
         tutes happiness is more disastrous to human progress
         than all that an enemy or enmity can obtrude upon

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1      the mind or engraft upon its purposes and achievements
         wherewith to obstruct life’s joys and enhance its sor-
         rows.

         We have no enemies. Whatever envy, hatred, revenge
5       — the most remorseless motives that govern mortal mind
          — whatever these try to do, shall “work together for good
         to them that love God.”

         Why?

         Because He has called His own, armed them, equipped
10    them, and furnished them defenses impregnable. Their
         God will not let them be lost; and if they fall they shall
         rise again, stronger than before the stumble. The good
         cannot lose their God, their help in times of trouble.
         If they mistake the divine command, they will recover
15    it, countermand their order, retrace their steps, and
         reinstate His orders, more assured to press on safely.
         The best lesson of their lives is gained by crossing
         swords with temptation, with fear and the besetments
         of evil; insomuch as they thereby have tried their
20    strength and proven it; insomuch as they have found
         their strength made perfect in weakness, and their fear
         is self-immolated.

         This destruction is a moral chemicalization, wherein
         old things pass away and all things become new. The
25    worldly or material tendencies of human affections and
         pursuits are thus annihilated; and this is the advent of
         spiritualization. Heaven comes down to earth, and
         mortals learn at last the lesson, “I have no enemies.”

         Even in belief you have but one (that, not in reality),
30    and this one enemy is yourself — your erroneous belief
         that you have enemies; that evil is real; that aught but
         good exists in Science. Soon or late, your enemy will

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1      wake from his delusion to suffer for his evil intent; to
         find that, though thwarted, its punishment is tenfold.

         Love is the fulfilling of the law: it is grace, mercy,
         and justice. I used to think it sufficiently just to abide
5      by our State statutes; that if a man should aim a ball at
         my heart, and I by firing first could kill him and save
         my own life, that this was right. I thought, also, that
         if I taught indigent students gratuitously, afterwards
         assisting them pecuniarily, and did not cease teach-
10    ing the wayward ones at close of the class term, but
         followed them with precept upon precept; that if my
         instructions had healed them and shown them the sure way
         of salvation, — I had done my whole duty to students.

         Love metes not out human justice, but divine mercy.
15    If one’s life were attacked, and one could save it only
         in accordance with common law, by taking another’s,
         would one sooner give up his own? We must love our
         enemies in all the manifestations wherein and whereby
         we love our friends; must even try not to expose their
20    faults, but to do them good whenever opportunity
         occurs. To mete out human justice to those who per-
         secute and despitefully use one, is not leaving all retribu-
         tion to God and returning blessing for cursing. If special
         opportunity for doing good to one’s enemies occur not,
25    one can include them in his general effort to benefit the
         race. Because I can do much general good to such as
         hate me, I do it with earnest, special care — since they
         permit me no other way, though with tears have I striven
         for it. When smitten on one cheek, I have turned the
30    other: I have but two to present.

         I would enjoy taking by the hand all who love me not,
         and saying to them, “I love you, and would not know-

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1      ingly harm you.” Because I thus feel, I say to others:
         Hate no one; for hatred is a plague-spot that spreads
         its virus and kills at last. If indulged, it masters us;
         brings suffering upon suffering to its possessor, through-
5      out time and beyond the grave. If you have been badly
         wronged, forgive and forget: God will recompense this
         wrong, and punish, more severely than you could, him
         who has striven to injure you. Never return evil for evil;
         and, above all, do not fancy that you have been wronged
10    when you have not been.

         The present is ours; the future, big with events.
         Every man and woman should be to-day a law to him-
         self, herself, — a law of loyalty to Jesus’ Sermon on the
         Mount. The means for sinning unseen and unpunished
15    have so increased that, unless one be watchful and stead-
         fast in Love, one’s temptations to sin are increased a
         hundredfold. Mortal mind at this period mutely works
         in the interest of both good and evil in a manner least
         understood; hence the need of watching, and the danger
20    of yielding to temptation from causes that at former
         periods in human history were not existent. The action
         and effects of this so-called human mind in its silent argu-
         ments, are yet to be uncovered and summarily dealt with
         by divine justice.

25    In Christian Science, the law of Love rejoices the heart;
         and Love is Life and Truth. Whatever manifests aught
         else in its effects upon mankind, demonstrably is not Love.
         We should measure our love for God by our love for man;
         and our sense of Science will be measured by our obedience
30    to God, — fulfilling the law of Love, doing good to all;
         imparting, so far as we reflect them, Truth, Life, and Love
         to all within the radius of our atmosphere of thought.

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1      The only justice of which I feel at present capable,
         is mercy and charity toward every one, — just so far as
         one and all permit me to exercise these sentiments toward
         them, — taking special care to mind my own business.

5      The falsehood, ingratitude, misjudgment, and sharp
         return of evil for good — yea, the real wrongs (if wrong
         can be real) which I have long endured at the hands of
         others — have most happily wrought out for me the law
         of loving mine enemies. This law I now urge upon the
10    solemn consideration of all Christian Scientists. Jesus
         said, “If ye love them which love you, what thank have
         ye? for sinners also love those that love them.”

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         At this date, 1883, a newspaper edited and published
         by the Christian Scientists has become a necessity. Many
         questions important to be disposed of come to the Col-
15    lege and to the practising students, yet but little time
         has been devoted to their answer. Further enlight-
         enment is necessary for the age, and a periodical de-
         voted to this work seems alone adequate to meet the
         requirement. Much interest is awakened and expressed
20    on the subject of metaphysical healing, but in many
         minds it is confounded with isms, and even infidelity, so
         that its religious specialty and the vastness of its worth
         are not understood.

         It is often said, “You must have a very strong will-
25    power to heal,” or, “It must require a great deal of faith
         to make your demonstrations.” When it is answered
         that there is no will-power required, and that something
         more than faith is necessary, we meet with an expression
         of incredulity. It is not alone the mission of Christian
30    Science to heal the sick, but to destroy sin in mortal

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1      thought. This work well done will elevate and purify
         the race. It cannot fail to do this if we devote our best
         energies to the work.

         Science reveals man as spiritual, harmonious, and eter-
5      nal. This should be understood. Our College should
         be crowded with students who are willing to consecrate
         themselves to this Christian work. Mothers should be
         able to produce perfect health and perfect morals in their
         children — and ministers, to heal the sick — by study-
10    ing this scientific method of practising Christianity.
         Many say, “I should like to study, but have not suffi-
         cient faith that I have the power to heal.” The healing
         power is Truth and Love, and these do not fail in the
         greatest emergencies.

15    Materia medica says, “I can do no more. I have
         done all that can be done. There is nothing to build
         upon. There is no longer any reason for hope.” Then
         metaphysics comes in, armed with the power of Spirit,
         not matter, takes up the case hopefully and builds on
20    the stone that the builders have rejected, and is suc-
         cessful.

         Metaphysical therapeutics can seem a miracle and a
         mystery to those only who do not understand the grand
         reality that Mind controls the body. They acknowledge
25    an erring or mortal mind, but believe it to be brain mat-
         ter. That man is the idea of infinite Mind, always perfect
         in God, in Truth, Life, and Love, is something not easily
         accepted, weighed down as is mortal thought with mate-
         rial beliefs. That which never existed, can seem solid
30    substance to this thought. It is much easier for people
         to believe that the body affects the mind, than that the
         mind affects the body.

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1      We hear from the pulpits that sickness is sent as a
         discipline to bring man nearer to God, — even though
         sickness often leaves mortals but little time free from
         complaints and fretfulness, and Jesus cast out disease as
5      evil.

         The most of our Christian Science practitioners have
         plenty to do, and many more are needed for the ad-
         vancement of the age. At present the majority of the
         acute cases are given to the M. D.’s, and only those
10    cases that are pronounced incurable are passed over to
         the Scientist. The healing of such cases should cer-
         tainly prove to all minds the power of metaphysics over
         physics; and it surely does, to many thinkers, as the
         rapid growth of the work shows. At no distant day,
15    Christian healing will rank far in advance of allopathy
         and homœopathy; for Truth must ultimately succeed
         where error fails.

         Mind governs all. That we exist in God, perfect,
         there is no doubt, for the conceptions of Life, Truth, and
20    Love must be perfect; and with that basic truth we con-
         quer sickness, sin, and death. Frequently it requires
         time to overcome the patient’s faith in drugs and mate-
         rial hygiene; but when once convinced of the uselessness
         of such material methods, the gain is rapid.

25    It is a noticeable fact, that in families where laws
         of health are strictly enforced, great caution is observed
         in regard to diet, and the conversation chiefly confined
         to the ailments of the body, there is the most sickness.
         Take a large family of children where the mother has
         all that she can attend to in keeping them clothed and
         fed, and health is generally the rule; whereas, in small
         families of one or two children, sickness is by no means

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1      the exception. These children must not be allowed to
         eat certain food, nor to breathe the cold air, because
         there is danger in it; when they perspire, they must be
         loaded down with coverings until their bodies become
5      dry, — and the mother of one child is often busier than
         the mother of eight.

         Great charity and humility is necessary in this work
         of healing. The loving patience of Jesus, we must
         strive to emulate. “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
10    thyself” has daily to be exemplified; and, although
         skepticism and incredulity prevail in places where
         one would least expect it, it harms not; for if serving
         Christ, Truth, of what can mortal opinion avail? Cast
         not your pearls before swine; but if you cannot bring
15    peace to all, you can to many, if faithful laborers in His
         vineyard.

         Looking over the newspapers of the day, one naturally
         reflects that it is dangerous to live, so loaded with disease
         seems the very air. These descriptions carry fears to
20    many minds, to be depicted in some future time upon
         the body. A periodical of our own will counteract to
         some extent this public nuisance; for through our paper,
         at the price at which we shall issue it, we shall be able
         to reach many homes with healing, purifying thought.
25    A great work already has been done, and a greater work
         yet remains to be done. Oftentimes we are denied the
         results of our labors because people do not understand
         the nature and power of metaphysics, and they think
         that health and strength would have returned natu-
30    rally without any assistance. This is not so much from
         a lack of justice, as it is that the mens populi is not suffi-
         ciently enlightened on this great subject. More thought

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1      is given to material illusions than to spiritual facts. If
         we can aid in abating suffering and diminishing sin,
         we shall have accomplished much; but if we can bring
         to the general thought this great fact that drugs do not,
5      cannot, produce health and harmony, since “in Him
         [Mind] we live, and move, and have our being,” we shall
         have done more.

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1      The ancient Greek looked longingly for the Olym-
         piad. The Chaldee watched the appearing of a
         star; to him, no higher destiny dawned on the dome
5      of being than that foreshadowed by signs in the heav-
         ens. The meek Nazarene, the scoffed of all scoffers,
         said, “Ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye
         not discern the signs of the times?” — for he forefelt
         and foresaw the ordeal of a perfect Christianity, hated
10    by sinners.

         To kindle all minds with a gleam of gratitude, the
         new idea that comes welling up from infinite Truth needs
         to be understood. The seer of this age should be a
         sage.

15    Humility is the stepping-stone to a higher recognition
         of Deity. The mounting sense gathers fresh forms and
         strange fire from the ashes of dissolving self, and drops
         the world. Meekness heightens immortal attributes
         only by removing the dust that dims them. Goodness
20    reveals another scene and another self seemingly rolled
         up in shades, but brought to light by the evolutions of

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1      advancing thought, whereby we discern the power of
         Truth and Love to heal the sick.

         Pride is ignorance; those assume most who have the
         least wisdom or experience; and they steal from their
5      neighbor, because they have so little of their own.

         The signs of these times portend a long and strong
         determination of mankind to cleave to the world, the
         flesh, and evil, causing great obscuration of Spirit.
         When we remember that God is just, and admit the
10    total depravity of mortals, alias mortal mind, — and that
         this Adam legacy must first be seen, and then must be
         subdued and recompensed by justice, the eternal attri-
         bute of Truth, — the outlook demands labor, and the
         laborers seem few. To-day we behold but the first
15    faint view of a more spiritual Christianity, that embraces
         a deeper and broader philosophy and a more rational and
         divine healing. The time approaches when divine Life,
         Truth, and Love will be found alone the remedy for sin,
         sickness, and death; when God, man’s saving Principle,
20    and Christ, the spiritual idea of God, will be revealed.

         Man’s probation after death is the necessity of his
         immortality; for good dies not and evil is self-destruc-
         tive, therefore evil must be mortal and self-destroyed.
         If man should not progress after death, but should re-
25    main in error, he would be inevitably self-annihilated.
         Those upon whom “the second death hath no power”
         are those who progress here and hereafter out of evil,
         their mortal element, and into good that is immortal;
         thus laying off the material beliefs that war against
30    Spirit, and putting on the spiritual elements in divine
         Science.

         While we entertain decided views as to the best method

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1      for elevating the race physically, morally, and spiritu-
         ally, and shall express these views as duty demands, we
         shall claim no especial gift from our divine origin, no
         supernatural power. If we regard good as more natural
5      than evil, and spiritual understanding — the true knowl-
         edge of God — as imparting the only power to heal the
         sick and the sinner, we shall demonstrate in our lives the
         power of Truth and Love.

         The lessons we learn in divine Science are applica-
10    ble to all the needs of man. Jesus taught them for this
         very purpose; and his demonstration hath taught us
         that “through his stripes” — his life-experience — and
         divine Science, brought to the understanding through
         Christ, the Spirit-revelator, is man healed and saved.
15    No opinions of mortals nor human hypotheses enter this
         line of thought or action. Drugs, inert matter, never are
         needed to aid spiritual power. Hygiene, manipulation,
         and mesmerism are not Mind’s medicine. The Prin-
         ciple of all cure is God, unerring and immortal Mind.
20    We have learned that the erring or mortal thought holds
         in itself all sin, sickness, and death, and imparts these
         states to the body; while the supreme and perfect Mind,
         as seen in the truth of being, antidotes and destroys these
         material elements of sin and death.

25    Because God is supreme and omnipotent, materia
         medica, hygiene, and animal magnetism are impotent;
         and their only supposed efficacy is in apparently delud-
         ing reason, denying revelation, and dethroning Deity.
         The tendency of mental healing is to uplift mankind; but
30    this method perverted, is “Satan let loose.” Hence the
         deep demand for the Science of psychology to meet sin,
         and uncover it; thus to annihilate hallucination.

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1      Thought imbued with purity, Truth, and Love, in-
         structed in the Science of metaphysical healing, is the
         most potent and desirable remedial agent on the earth.
         At this period there is a marked tendency of mortal
5      mind to plant mental healing on the basis of hypnotism,
         calling this method “mental science.” All Science is
         Christian Science; the Science of the Mind that is God,
         and of the universe as His idea, and their relation to each
         other. Its only power to heal is its power to do good,
         not evil.