Chapter 8

Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition[25]of mortality?It is quite as possible to know wherefore man is thusconditioned, as to be certain that heisin a state ofmortality. The only evidence of the existence of a mor-tal man, or of a material state and universe, is gathered [30][pg 065]from the five personal senses. This delusive evidence, [1]Science has dethroned by repeated proofs of its falsity.We have no more proof of human discord,—sin,sickness, disease, or death,—than we have that theearth's surface is flat, and her motions imaginary. If [5]man'sipse dixitas to the stellar system is correct, thisis because Science is true, and the evidence of the sensesis false. Then why not submit to the affirmations ofScience concerning the greater subject of human wealand woe? Every question between Truth and error, [10]Science must and will decide. Left to the decision ofScience, your query concerns a negative which the posi-tive Truth destroys; for God's universe and man areimmortal. We must not consider the false side of exist-ence in order to gain the true solution of Life and its [15]great realities.Have you changed your instructions as to the right wayof treating disease?I have not; and this important fact must be, and al-ready is, apprehended by those who understand my in- [20]structions on this question. Christian Science demandsboth law and gospel, in order to demonstrate healing,and I have taught them both in its demonstration, andwith signs following. They are a unit in restoring theequipoise of mind and body, and balancing man's ac- [25]count with his Maker. The sequence proves that strictadherence to one is inadequate to compensate for theabsence of the other, since both constitute the divine lawof healing.The Jewish religion demands that“whoso sheddeth[30]man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.”But this[pg 066]law is not infallible in wisdom; and obedience thereto [1]may be found faulty, since false testimony or mistakenevidence may cause the innocent to suffer for the guilty.Hence the gospel that fulfils the law in righteousness,the genius whereof is displayed in the surprising wisdom [5]of these words of the New Testament:“Whatsoevera man soweth, that shall he also reap.”No possibleinjustice lurks in this mandate, and no human mis-judgment can pervert it; for the offender alone suffers,and always according to divine decree. This sacred, [10]solid precept is verified in all directions in Mind-healing, and is supported in the Scripture by parallelproof.The law and gospel of Truth and Love teach, throughdivine Science, that sin is identical with suffering, and [15]that suffering is the lighter affliction. To reach the sum-mit of Science, whence to discern God's perfect waysand means, the material sense must be controlled bythe higher spiritual sense, and Truth be enthroned,while“we look not at the things which are seen, but at[20]the things which are not seen.”Cynical critics misjudge my meaning as to the sci-entific treatment of the sick. Disease that is superin-duced by sin is not healed like the more physicalailment. The beginner in sin-healing must know this, or [25]he never can reach the Science of Mind-healing, andso“overcome evil with good.”Error in premise is metwith error in practice; yea, it is“the blind leading theblind.”Ignorance of the cause of disease can neitherremove that cause nor its effect. [30]I endeavor to accommodate my instructions to thepresent capability of the learner, and to support the[pg 067]liberated thought until its altitude reaches beyond the [1]mere alphabet of Mind-healing. Above physical wants,lie the higher claims of the law and gospel of healing.First is the law, which saith:—“Thou shalt not commit adultery;”in other words, [5]thou shalt not adulterate Life, Truth, or Love,—men-tally, morally, or physically.“Thou shalt not steal;”that is, thou shalt not rob man of money, which is buttrash, compared with his rights of mind and character.“Thou shalt not kill;”that is, thou shalt not strike at the [10]eternal sense of Life with a malicious aim, but shaltknow that by doing thus thine own sense of Life shall beforfeited.“Thou shalt not bear false witness;”that is,thou shalt not utter a lie, either mentally or audibly, norcause it to be thought. Obedience to these command- [15]ments is indispensable to health, happiness, and lengthof days.The gospel of healing demonstrates the law of Love.Justice uncovers sin of every sort; and mercy demandsthat if you see the danger menacing others, you shall, [20]Deo volente, inform them thereof. Only thus is the rightpractice of Mind-healing achieved, and the wrong prac-tice discerned, disarmed, and destroyed.Do you believe in translation?If your question refers to language, whereby one ex- [25]presses the sense of words in one language by equiva-lent words in another, I do. If you refer to the removalof a person to heaven, without his subjection to death,I modify my affirmative answer. I believe in thisremoval being possible after all the footsteps requisite [30]have been taken up to the very throne, up to the[pg 068]spiritual sense and fact of divine substance, intelligence, [1]Life, and Love. This translation is not the work of mo-ments; it requires both time and eternity. It means morethan mere disappearance to the human sense; it mustinclude also man's changed appearance and diviner form [5]visible to those beholding him here.The Rev. —— said in a sermon: A true Christianwould protest against metaphysical healing being calledChristian Science. He also maintained that pain anddisease are not illusions but realities; and that it is not[10]Christian to believe they are illusions. Is this so?It is unchristian to believe that pain and sickness areanythingbutillusions. My proof of this is, that thepenalty for believing in their reality is the very pain anddisease. Jesus cast out a devil, and the dumb spake; [15]hence it is right to know that the works of Satan are theillusion and error which Truth casts out.Does the gentleman above mentioned know themeaning of divine metaphysics, or of metaphysicaltheology? [20]According to Webster, metaphysics is defined thus:“The science of the conceptions and relations which arenecessary to thought and knowledge; science of themind.”Worcester defines it as“the philosophy of mind,as distinguished from that of matter; a science of which [25]the object is to explain the principles and causes ofall things existing,”Brande calls metaphysics“thescience which regards the ultimate grounds of being, asdistinguished from its phenomenal modifications.”“Aspeculative science, which soars beyond the bounds of [30]experience,”is a further definition.[pg 069]Divine metaphysics is that which treats of the exist- [1]ence of God, His essence, relations, and attributes. Asneer at metaphysics is a scoff at Deity; at His goodness,mercy, and might.Christian Science is the unfolding of true metaphysics; [5]that is, of Mind, or God, and His attributes. Science restson Principle and demonstration. The Principle of Chris-tian Science is divine. Its rule is, that man shall utilizethe divine power.In Genesis i. 26, we read:“Let us make man in[10]our image, after our likeness: and let them havedominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl ofthe air.”I was once called to visit a sick man to whom theregular physicians had given three doses of Croton [15]oil, and then had left him to die. Upon my arrival Ifound him barely alive, and in terrible agony. In onehour he was well, and the next day he attended to hisbusiness. I removed the stoppage, healed him of en-teritis, and neutralized the bad effects of the poison- [20]ous oil. His physicians had failed even to move hisbowels,—though the wonder was, with the meansused in their effort to accomplish this result, thatthey had not quite killed him. According to theirdiagnosis, the exciting cause of the inflammation and [25]stoppage was—eating smoked herring. The man isliving yet; and I will send his address to any onewho may wish to apply to him for information abouthis case.Now comes the question: Had that sick man dominion [30]over the fish in his stomach?His want of control over“the fish of the sea”must[pg 070]have been an illusion, or else the Scriptures misstate [1]man's power. That the Bible is true I believe, notonly, but Idemonstratedits truth when I exercisedmy power over the fish, cast out the sick man's illu-sion, and healed him. Thus it was shown that the [5]healing action of Mind upon the body has its only ex-planation in divine metaphysics. As a man“thinkethin his heart, so is he.”When the mortal thought, or be-lief, was removed, the man was well.What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief,[10]“To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise”?Paradisaical rest from physical agony would come tothe criminal, if the dream of dying should startle himfrom the dream of suffering. The paradise of Spiritwould come to Jesus, in a spiritual sense of Life and [15]power. Christ Jesus lived and reappeared. He was toogood to die; for goodness is immortal. The thief wasnot equal to the demands of the hour; but sin was de-stroying itself, and had already begun to die,—asthe poor thief's prayer for help indicated. The dy- [20]ing malefactor and our Lord were inevitably sepa-rated through Mind. The thief's body, as matter,must dissolve into its native nothingness; whereas thebody of the holy Spirit of Jesus was eternal. Thatday the thief would be with Jesus only in a finite [25]and material sense of relief; while our Lord wouldsoon be rising to the supremacy of Spirit, workingout, even in the silent tomb, those wonderful demon-strations of divine power, in which none could equal hisglory. [30][pg 071]Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely[1]well myself?The late John B. Gough is said to have suffered froman appetite for alcoholic drink until his death; yet hesaved many a drunkard from this fatal appetite. Paul [5]had a thorn in the flesh: one writer thinks that he wastroubled with rheumatism, and another that he had soreeyes; but this is certain, that he healed others who weresick. It is unquestionably right to do right; and heal-ing the sick is a very right thing to do. [10]Does Christian Science set aside the law of transmission,prenatal desires, and good or bad influences on the unbornchild?Science never averts law, but supports it. All actualcausation must interpret omnipotence, the all-knowing [15]Mind. Law brings out Truth, not error; unfolds divinePrinciple,—but neither human hypothesis nor matter.Errors are based on a mortal or material formation; theyare suppositional modes, not the factors of divine presenceand power. [20]Whatever is humanly conceived is a departure fromdivine law; hence its mythical origin and certain end.According to the Scriptures,—St. Paul declares astutely,“For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are allthings,”—man is incapable of originating; nothing can [25]be formed apart from God, good, the all-knowing Mind.What seems to be of human origin is the counterfeitof the divine,—even human concepts, mortal shadowsflitting across the dial of time.Whatever is real is right and eternal; hence the im- [30]mutable and just law of Science, that God is good only,[pg 072]and can transmit to man and the universe nothing evil, [1]or unlike Himself. For the innocent babe to be born alifelong sufferer because of his parents' mistakes or sins,were sore injustice. Science sets aside man as a creator,and unfolds the eternal harmonies of the only living and [5]true origin, God.According to the beliefs of the flesh, both good andbad traits of the parents are transmitted to their help-less offspring, and God is supposed to impart to manthis fatal power. It is cause for rejoicing that this belief [10]is as false as it is remorseless. The immutable Wordsaith, through the prophet Ezekiel,“What mean ye, thatye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children'steeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, [15]ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverbin Israel.”Are material things real when they are harmonious, anddo they disappear only to the natural sense? Does thisScripture,“Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have[20]need of all these things”imply that Spirit takes note ofmatter?The Science of Mind, as well as the material uniiverse, shows that nothing which is material is inperpetual harmony. Matter is manifest mortal mind, [35]and it exists only to material sense. Real sensationis not material; it is, and must be, mental: and Mindis not mortal, it is immortal. Being is God, infiniteSpirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, oroutside of infinity. [30]The Scriptural passage quoted affords no evidence of[pg 073]the reality of matter, or that God is conscious of it. [1]The so-called material body is said to suffer, but thissupposition is proven erroneous when Mind casts outthe suffering. The Scripture saith,“Whom the Lordloveth He chasteneth;”and again,“He doth not[5]afflict willingly.”Interpreted materially, these pas-sages conflict; they mingle the testimony of immor-tal Science with mortal sense; but once discern theirspiritual meaning, and it separates the false sense fromthe true, and establishes the reality of what is spiritual, [10]and the unreality of materiality.Law is never material: it is always mental and moral,and a commandment to the wise. The foolish disobeymoral law, and are punished. Human wisdom thereforecan get no farther than to say, He knoweth that we have [15]need of experience. Belief fulfils the conditions of a be-lief, and these conditions destroy the belief. Hence theverdict of experience: We have need ofthesethings; wehave need to know that the so-called pleasures and painsof matter—yea, that all subjective states of false sensa- [20]tion—areunreal.“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration whenthe Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory,ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the[25]twelve tribes of Israel.”(Matt. xix. 28.)What is meantby regeneration?It is the appearing of divine law to human under-standing; the spiritualization that comes from spiritualsense in contradistinction to the testimony of the so- [30]called material senses. The phenomena of Spirit in[pg 074]Christian Science, and the divine correspondence of [1]noumenon and phenomenon understood, are here signi-fied. This new-born sense subdues not only the falsesense of generation, but the human will, and the un-natural enmity of mortal man toward God. It quickly [5]imparts a new apprehension of the true basis of being,and the spiritual foundation for the affections which en-throne the Son of man in the glory of his Father; andjudges, through the stern mandate of Science, all humansystems of etiology and teleology. [10]If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was“the way, the truth, and the life,”cognize it?Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of thatwhich mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual andimmortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission [15]was to translate substance into its original meaning,Mind. He walked upon the waves; he turned the waterinto wine; he healed the sick and the sinner; he raisedthe dead, and rolled away the stone from the door of hisown tomb. His demonstration of Spirit virtually van- [20]quished matter and its supposed laws. Walking thewave, he proved the fallacy of the theory that matter issubstance; healing through Mind, he removed any sup-position that matter is intelligent, or can recognize orexpress pain and pleasure. His triumph over the grave [25]was an everlasting victory for Life; it demonstrated thelifelessness of matter, and the power and permanenceof Spirit. He met and conquered the resistance of theworld.If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither [30]substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that[pg 075]is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the [1]garment of Jesus' idea of matter, Christ was“the way;”since Life and Truth were the way that gave us, througha human person, a spiritual revelation of man's possibleearthly development. [5]Why do you insist that there is but one Soul, and thatSoul is not in the body?First:I urge this fundamental fact and grand verityof Christian Science, because it includes a rule that mustbe understood, or it is impossible to demonstrate the Sci- [10]ence. Soul is a synonym of Spirit, and God is Spirit.There is but one God, and the infinite is not within thefinite; hence Soul is one, and is God; and God is not inmatter or the mortal body.Second:Because Soul is a term for Deity, and this [15]term should seldom be employed except where the wordGodcan be used and make complete sense. The wordSoulmay sometimes be used metaphorically; but if thisterm is warped to signify human quality, a substitutionofsenseforsoulclears the meaning, and assists one to [20]understand Christian Science. Mary's exclamation,“"Mysouldoth magnify the Lord,”is rendered in Sci-ence,“Myspiritual sensedoth magnify the Lord;”for the name of Deity used in that place does not bringout the meaning of the passage. It was evidently an [25]illuminated sense through which she discovered thespiritual origin of man.“The soul that sinneth, it shalldie,”means, that mortal man (aliasmaterial sense) thatsinneth, shall die; and the commonly accepted view isthatsoulis deathless. Soul is the divine Mind,—for [30]Soul cannot be formed or brought forth by human[pg 076]

Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition[25]of mortality?It is quite as possible to know wherefore man is thusconditioned, as to be certain that heisin a state ofmortality. The only evidence of the existence of a mor-tal man, or of a material state and universe, is gathered [30][pg 065]from the five personal senses. This delusive evidence, [1]Science has dethroned by repeated proofs of its falsity.We have no more proof of human discord,—sin,sickness, disease, or death,—than we have that theearth's surface is flat, and her motions imaginary. If [5]man'sipse dixitas to the stellar system is correct, thisis because Science is true, and the evidence of the sensesis false. Then why not submit to the affirmations ofScience concerning the greater subject of human wealand woe? Every question between Truth and error, [10]Science must and will decide. Left to the decision ofScience, your query concerns a negative which the posi-tive Truth destroys; for God's universe and man areimmortal. We must not consider the false side of exist-ence in order to gain the true solution of Life and its [15]great realities.Have you changed your instructions as to the right wayof treating disease?I have not; and this important fact must be, and al-ready is, apprehended by those who understand my in- [20]structions on this question. Christian Science demandsboth law and gospel, in order to demonstrate healing,and I have taught them both in its demonstration, andwith signs following. They are a unit in restoring theequipoise of mind and body, and balancing man's ac- [25]count with his Maker. The sequence proves that strictadherence to one is inadequate to compensate for theabsence of the other, since both constitute the divine lawof healing.The Jewish religion demands that“whoso sheddeth[30]man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.”But this[pg 066]law is not infallible in wisdom; and obedience thereto [1]may be found faulty, since false testimony or mistakenevidence may cause the innocent to suffer for the guilty.Hence the gospel that fulfils the law in righteousness,the genius whereof is displayed in the surprising wisdom [5]of these words of the New Testament:“Whatsoevera man soweth, that shall he also reap.”No possibleinjustice lurks in this mandate, and no human mis-judgment can pervert it; for the offender alone suffers,and always according to divine decree. This sacred, [10]solid precept is verified in all directions in Mind-healing, and is supported in the Scripture by parallelproof.The law and gospel of Truth and Love teach, throughdivine Science, that sin is identical with suffering, and [15]that suffering is the lighter affliction. To reach the sum-mit of Science, whence to discern God's perfect waysand means, the material sense must be controlled bythe higher spiritual sense, and Truth be enthroned,while“we look not at the things which are seen, but at[20]the things which are not seen.”Cynical critics misjudge my meaning as to the sci-entific treatment of the sick. Disease that is superin-duced by sin is not healed like the more physicalailment. The beginner in sin-healing must know this, or [25]he never can reach the Science of Mind-healing, andso“overcome evil with good.”Error in premise is metwith error in practice; yea, it is“the blind leading theblind.”Ignorance of the cause of disease can neitherremove that cause nor its effect. [30]I endeavor to accommodate my instructions to thepresent capability of the learner, and to support the[pg 067]liberated thought until its altitude reaches beyond the [1]mere alphabet of Mind-healing. Above physical wants,lie the higher claims of the law and gospel of healing.First is the law, which saith:—“Thou shalt not commit adultery;”in other words, [5]thou shalt not adulterate Life, Truth, or Love,—men-tally, morally, or physically.“Thou shalt not steal;”that is, thou shalt not rob man of money, which is buttrash, compared with his rights of mind and character.“Thou shalt not kill;”that is, thou shalt not strike at the [10]eternal sense of Life with a malicious aim, but shaltknow that by doing thus thine own sense of Life shall beforfeited.“Thou shalt not bear false witness;”that is,thou shalt not utter a lie, either mentally or audibly, norcause it to be thought. Obedience to these command- [15]ments is indispensable to health, happiness, and lengthof days.The gospel of healing demonstrates the law of Love.Justice uncovers sin of every sort; and mercy demandsthat if you see the danger menacing others, you shall, [20]Deo volente, inform them thereof. Only thus is the rightpractice of Mind-healing achieved, and the wrong prac-tice discerned, disarmed, and destroyed.Do you believe in translation?If your question refers to language, whereby one ex- [25]presses the sense of words in one language by equiva-lent words in another, I do. If you refer to the removalof a person to heaven, without his subjection to death,I modify my affirmative answer. I believe in thisremoval being possible after all the footsteps requisite [30]have been taken up to the very throne, up to the[pg 068]spiritual sense and fact of divine substance, intelligence, [1]Life, and Love. This translation is not the work of mo-ments; it requires both time and eternity. It means morethan mere disappearance to the human sense; it mustinclude also man's changed appearance and diviner form [5]visible to those beholding him here.The Rev. —— said in a sermon: A true Christianwould protest against metaphysical healing being calledChristian Science. He also maintained that pain anddisease are not illusions but realities; and that it is not[10]Christian to believe they are illusions. Is this so?It is unchristian to believe that pain and sickness areanythingbutillusions. My proof of this is, that thepenalty for believing in their reality is the very pain anddisease. Jesus cast out a devil, and the dumb spake; [15]hence it is right to know that the works of Satan are theillusion and error which Truth casts out.Does the gentleman above mentioned know themeaning of divine metaphysics, or of metaphysicaltheology? [20]According to Webster, metaphysics is defined thus:“The science of the conceptions and relations which arenecessary to thought and knowledge; science of themind.”Worcester defines it as“the philosophy of mind,as distinguished from that of matter; a science of which [25]the object is to explain the principles and causes ofall things existing,”Brande calls metaphysics“thescience which regards the ultimate grounds of being, asdistinguished from its phenomenal modifications.”“Aspeculative science, which soars beyond the bounds of [30]experience,”is a further definition.[pg 069]Divine metaphysics is that which treats of the exist- [1]ence of God, His essence, relations, and attributes. Asneer at metaphysics is a scoff at Deity; at His goodness,mercy, and might.Christian Science is the unfolding of true metaphysics; [5]that is, of Mind, or God, and His attributes. Science restson Principle and demonstration. The Principle of Chris-tian Science is divine. Its rule is, that man shall utilizethe divine power.In Genesis i. 26, we read:“Let us make man in[10]our image, after our likeness: and let them havedominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl ofthe air.”I was once called to visit a sick man to whom theregular physicians had given three doses of Croton [15]oil, and then had left him to die. Upon my arrival Ifound him barely alive, and in terrible agony. In onehour he was well, and the next day he attended to hisbusiness. I removed the stoppage, healed him of en-teritis, and neutralized the bad effects of the poison- [20]ous oil. His physicians had failed even to move hisbowels,—though the wonder was, with the meansused in their effort to accomplish this result, thatthey had not quite killed him. According to theirdiagnosis, the exciting cause of the inflammation and [25]stoppage was—eating smoked herring. The man isliving yet; and I will send his address to any onewho may wish to apply to him for information abouthis case.Now comes the question: Had that sick man dominion [30]over the fish in his stomach?His want of control over“the fish of the sea”must[pg 070]have been an illusion, or else the Scriptures misstate [1]man's power. That the Bible is true I believe, notonly, but Idemonstratedits truth when I exercisedmy power over the fish, cast out the sick man's illu-sion, and healed him. Thus it was shown that the [5]healing action of Mind upon the body has its only ex-planation in divine metaphysics. As a man“thinkethin his heart, so is he.”When the mortal thought, or be-lief, was removed, the man was well.What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief,[10]“To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise”?Paradisaical rest from physical agony would come tothe criminal, if the dream of dying should startle himfrom the dream of suffering. The paradise of Spiritwould come to Jesus, in a spiritual sense of Life and [15]power. Christ Jesus lived and reappeared. He was toogood to die; for goodness is immortal. The thief wasnot equal to the demands of the hour; but sin was de-stroying itself, and had already begun to die,—asthe poor thief's prayer for help indicated. The dy- [20]ing malefactor and our Lord were inevitably sepa-rated through Mind. The thief's body, as matter,must dissolve into its native nothingness; whereas thebody of the holy Spirit of Jesus was eternal. Thatday the thief would be with Jesus only in a finite [25]and material sense of relief; while our Lord wouldsoon be rising to the supremacy of Spirit, workingout, even in the silent tomb, those wonderful demon-strations of divine power, in which none could equal hisglory. [30][pg 071]Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely[1]well myself?The late John B. Gough is said to have suffered froman appetite for alcoholic drink until his death; yet hesaved many a drunkard from this fatal appetite. Paul [5]had a thorn in the flesh: one writer thinks that he wastroubled with rheumatism, and another that he had soreeyes; but this is certain, that he healed others who weresick. It is unquestionably right to do right; and heal-ing the sick is a very right thing to do. [10]Does Christian Science set aside the law of transmission,prenatal desires, and good or bad influences on the unbornchild?Science never averts law, but supports it. All actualcausation must interpret omnipotence, the all-knowing [15]Mind. Law brings out Truth, not error; unfolds divinePrinciple,—but neither human hypothesis nor matter.Errors are based on a mortal or material formation; theyare suppositional modes, not the factors of divine presenceand power. [20]Whatever is humanly conceived is a departure fromdivine law; hence its mythical origin and certain end.According to the Scriptures,—St. Paul declares astutely,“For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are allthings,”—man is incapable of originating; nothing can [25]be formed apart from God, good, the all-knowing Mind.What seems to be of human origin is the counterfeitof the divine,—even human concepts, mortal shadowsflitting across the dial of time.Whatever is real is right and eternal; hence the im- [30]mutable and just law of Science, that God is good only,[pg 072]and can transmit to man and the universe nothing evil, [1]or unlike Himself. For the innocent babe to be born alifelong sufferer because of his parents' mistakes or sins,were sore injustice. Science sets aside man as a creator,and unfolds the eternal harmonies of the only living and [5]true origin, God.According to the beliefs of the flesh, both good andbad traits of the parents are transmitted to their help-less offspring, and God is supposed to impart to manthis fatal power. It is cause for rejoicing that this belief [10]is as false as it is remorseless. The immutable Wordsaith, through the prophet Ezekiel,“What mean ye, thatye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children'steeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, [15]ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverbin Israel.”Are material things real when they are harmonious, anddo they disappear only to the natural sense? Does thisScripture,“Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have[20]need of all these things”imply that Spirit takes note ofmatter?The Science of Mind, as well as the material uniiverse, shows that nothing which is material is inperpetual harmony. Matter is manifest mortal mind, [35]and it exists only to material sense. Real sensationis not material; it is, and must be, mental: and Mindis not mortal, it is immortal. Being is God, infiniteSpirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, oroutside of infinity. [30]The Scriptural passage quoted affords no evidence of[pg 073]the reality of matter, or that God is conscious of it. [1]The so-called material body is said to suffer, but thissupposition is proven erroneous when Mind casts outthe suffering. The Scripture saith,“Whom the Lordloveth He chasteneth;”and again,“He doth not[5]afflict willingly.”Interpreted materially, these pas-sages conflict; they mingle the testimony of immor-tal Science with mortal sense; but once discern theirspiritual meaning, and it separates the false sense fromthe true, and establishes the reality of what is spiritual, [10]and the unreality of materiality.Law is never material: it is always mental and moral,and a commandment to the wise. The foolish disobeymoral law, and are punished. Human wisdom thereforecan get no farther than to say, He knoweth that we have [15]need of experience. Belief fulfils the conditions of a be-lief, and these conditions destroy the belief. Hence theverdict of experience: We have need ofthesethings; wehave need to know that the so-called pleasures and painsof matter—yea, that all subjective states of false sensa- [20]tion—areunreal.“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration whenthe Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory,ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the[25]twelve tribes of Israel.”(Matt. xix. 28.)What is meantby regeneration?It is the appearing of divine law to human under-standing; the spiritualization that comes from spiritualsense in contradistinction to the testimony of the so- [30]called material senses. The phenomena of Spirit in[pg 074]Christian Science, and the divine correspondence of [1]noumenon and phenomenon understood, are here signi-fied. This new-born sense subdues not only the falsesense of generation, but the human will, and the un-natural enmity of mortal man toward God. It quickly [5]imparts a new apprehension of the true basis of being,and the spiritual foundation for the affections which en-throne the Son of man in the glory of his Father; andjudges, through the stern mandate of Science, all humansystems of etiology and teleology. [10]If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was“the way, the truth, and the life,”cognize it?Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of thatwhich mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual andimmortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission [15]was to translate substance into its original meaning,Mind. He walked upon the waves; he turned the waterinto wine; he healed the sick and the sinner; he raisedthe dead, and rolled away the stone from the door of hisown tomb. His demonstration of Spirit virtually van- [20]quished matter and its supposed laws. Walking thewave, he proved the fallacy of the theory that matter issubstance; healing through Mind, he removed any sup-position that matter is intelligent, or can recognize orexpress pain and pleasure. His triumph over the grave [25]was an everlasting victory for Life; it demonstrated thelifelessness of matter, and the power and permanenceof Spirit. He met and conquered the resistance of theworld.If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither [30]substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that[pg 075]is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the [1]garment of Jesus' idea of matter, Christ was“the way;”since Life and Truth were the way that gave us, througha human person, a spiritual revelation of man's possibleearthly development. [5]Why do you insist that there is but one Soul, and thatSoul is not in the body?First:I urge this fundamental fact and grand verityof Christian Science, because it includes a rule that mustbe understood, or it is impossible to demonstrate the Sci- [10]ence. Soul is a synonym of Spirit, and God is Spirit.There is but one God, and the infinite is not within thefinite; hence Soul is one, and is God; and God is not inmatter or the mortal body.Second:Because Soul is a term for Deity, and this [15]term should seldom be employed except where the wordGodcan be used and make complete sense. The wordSoulmay sometimes be used metaphorically; but if thisterm is warped to signify human quality, a substitutionofsenseforsoulclears the meaning, and assists one to [20]understand Christian Science. Mary's exclamation,“"Mysouldoth magnify the Lord,”is rendered in Sci-ence,“Myspiritual sensedoth magnify the Lord;”for the name of Deity used in that place does not bringout the meaning of the passage. It was evidently an [25]illuminated sense through which she discovered thespiritual origin of man.“The soul that sinneth, it shalldie,”means, that mortal man (aliasmaterial sense) thatsinneth, shall die; and the commonly accepted view isthatsoulis deathless. Soul is the divine Mind,—for [30]Soul cannot be formed or brought forth by human[pg 076]

Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition[25]of mortality?It is quite as possible to know wherefore man is thusconditioned, as to be certain that heisin a state ofmortality. The only evidence of the existence of a mor-tal man, or of a material state and universe, is gathered [30][pg 065]from the five personal senses. This delusive evidence, [1]Science has dethroned by repeated proofs of its falsity.We have no more proof of human discord,—sin,sickness, disease, or death,—than we have that theearth's surface is flat, and her motions imaginary. If [5]man'sipse dixitas to the stellar system is correct, thisis because Science is true, and the evidence of the sensesis false. Then why not submit to the affirmations ofScience concerning the greater subject of human wealand woe? Every question between Truth and error, [10]Science must and will decide. Left to the decision ofScience, your query concerns a negative which the posi-tive Truth destroys; for God's universe and man areimmortal. We must not consider the false side of exist-ence in order to gain the true solution of Life and its [15]great realities.Have you changed your instructions as to the right wayof treating disease?I have not; and this important fact must be, and al-ready is, apprehended by those who understand my in- [20]structions on this question. Christian Science demandsboth law and gospel, in order to demonstrate healing,and I have taught them both in its demonstration, andwith signs following. They are a unit in restoring theequipoise of mind and body, and balancing man's ac- [25]count with his Maker. The sequence proves that strictadherence to one is inadequate to compensate for theabsence of the other, since both constitute the divine lawof healing.The Jewish religion demands that“whoso sheddeth[30]man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.”But this[pg 066]law is not infallible in wisdom; and obedience thereto [1]may be found faulty, since false testimony or mistakenevidence may cause the innocent to suffer for the guilty.Hence the gospel that fulfils the law in righteousness,the genius whereof is displayed in the surprising wisdom [5]of these words of the New Testament:“Whatsoevera man soweth, that shall he also reap.”No possibleinjustice lurks in this mandate, and no human mis-judgment can pervert it; for the offender alone suffers,and always according to divine decree. This sacred, [10]solid precept is verified in all directions in Mind-healing, and is supported in the Scripture by parallelproof.The law and gospel of Truth and Love teach, throughdivine Science, that sin is identical with suffering, and [15]that suffering is the lighter affliction. To reach the sum-mit of Science, whence to discern God's perfect waysand means, the material sense must be controlled bythe higher spiritual sense, and Truth be enthroned,while“we look not at the things which are seen, but at[20]the things which are not seen.”Cynical critics misjudge my meaning as to the sci-entific treatment of the sick. Disease that is superin-duced by sin is not healed like the more physicalailment. The beginner in sin-healing must know this, or [25]he never can reach the Science of Mind-healing, andso“overcome evil with good.”Error in premise is metwith error in practice; yea, it is“the blind leading theblind.”Ignorance of the cause of disease can neitherremove that cause nor its effect. [30]I endeavor to accommodate my instructions to thepresent capability of the learner, and to support the[pg 067]liberated thought until its altitude reaches beyond the [1]mere alphabet of Mind-healing. Above physical wants,lie the higher claims of the law and gospel of healing.First is the law, which saith:—“Thou shalt not commit adultery;”in other words, [5]thou shalt not adulterate Life, Truth, or Love,—men-tally, morally, or physically.“Thou shalt not steal;”that is, thou shalt not rob man of money, which is buttrash, compared with his rights of mind and character.“Thou shalt not kill;”that is, thou shalt not strike at the [10]eternal sense of Life with a malicious aim, but shaltknow that by doing thus thine own sense of Life shall beforfeited.“Thou shalt not bear false witness;”that is,thou shalt not utter a lie, either mentally or audibly, norcause it to be thought. Obedience to these command- [15]ments is indispensable to health, happiness, and lengthof days.The gospel of healing demonstrates the law of Love.Justice uncovers sin of every sort; and mercy demandsthat if you see the danger menacing others, you shall, [20]Deo volente, inform them thereof. Only thus is the rightpractice of Mind-healing achieved, and the wrong prac-tice discerned, disarmed, and destroyed.Do you believe in translation?If your question refers to language, whereby one ex- [25]presses the sense of words in one language by equiva-lent words in another, I do. If you refer to the removalof a person to heaven, without his subjection to death,I modify my affirmative answer. I believe in thisremoval being possible after all the footsteps requisite [30]have been taken up to the very throne, up to the[pg 068]spiritual sense and fact of divine substance, intelligence, [1]Life, and Love. This translation is not the work of mo-ments; it requires both time and eternity. It means morethan mere disappearance to the human sense; it mustinclude also man's changed appearance and diviner form [5]visible to those beholding him here.The Rev. —— said in a sermon: A true Christianwould protest against metaphysical healing being calledChristian Science. He also maintained that pain anddisease are not illusions but realities; and that it is not[10]Christian to believe they are illusions. Is this so?It is unchristian to believe that pain and sickness areanythingbutillusions. My proof of this is, that thepenalty for believing in their reality is the very pain anddisease. Jesus cast out a devil, and the dumb spake; [15]hence it is right to know that the works of Satan are theillusion and error which Truth casts out.Does the gentleman above mentioned know themeaning of divine metaphysics, or of metaphysicaltheology? [20]According to Webster, metaphysics is defined thus:“The science of the conceptions and relations which arenecessary to thought and knowledge; science of themind.”Worcester defines it as“the philosophy of mind,as distinguished from that of matter; a science of which [25]the object is to explain the principles and causes ofall things existing,”Brande calls metaphysics“thescience which regards the ultimate grounds of being, asdistinguished from its phenomenal modifications.”“Aspeculative science, which soars beyond the bounds of [30]experience,”is a further definition.[pg 069]Divine metaphysics is that which treats of the exist- [1]ence of God, His essence, relations, and attributes. Asneer at metaphysics is a scoff at Deity; at His goodness,mercy, and might.Christian Science is the unfolding of true metaphysics; [5]that is, of Mind, or God, and His attributes. Science restson Principle and demonstration. The Principle of Chris-tian Science is divine. Its rule is, that man shall utilizethe divine power.In Genesis i. 26, we read:“Let us make man in[10]our image, after our likeness: and let them havedominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl ofthe air.”I was once called to visit a sick man to whom theregular physicians had given three doses of Croton [15]oil, and then had left him to die. Upon my arrival Ifound him barely alive, and in terrible agony. In onehour he was well, and the next day he attended to hisbusiness. I removed the stoppage, healed him of en-teritis, and neutralized the bad effects of the poison- [20]ous oil. His physicians had failed even to move hisbowels,—though the wonder was, with the meansused in their effort to accomplish this result, thatthey had not quite killed him. According to theirdiagnosis, the exciting cause of the inflammation and [25]stoppage was—eating smoked herring. The man isliving yet; and I will send his address to any onewho may wish to apply to him for information abouthis case.Now comes the question: Had that sick man dominion [30]over the fish in his stomach?His want of control over“the fish of the sea”must[pg 070]have been an illusion, or else the Scriptures misstate [1]man's power. That the Bible is true I believe, notonly, but Idemonstratedits truth when I exercisedmy power over the fish, cast out the sick man's illu-sion, and healed him. Thus it was shown that the [5]healing action of Mind upon the body has its only ex-planation in divine metaphysics. As a man“thinkethin his heart, so is he.”When the mortal thought, or be-lief, was removed, the man was well.What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief,[10]“To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise”?Paradisaical rest from physical agony would come tothe criminal, if the dream of dying should startle himfrom the dream of suffering. The paradise of Spiritwould come to Jesus, in a spiritual sense of Life and [15]power. Christ Jesus lived and reappeared. He was toogood to die; for goodness is immortal. The thief wasnot equal to the demands of the hour; but sin was de-stroying itself, and had already begun to die,—asthe poor thief's prayer for help indicated. The dy- [20]ing malefactor and our Lord were inevitably sepa-rated through Mind. The thief's body, as matter,must dissolve into its native nothingness; whereas thebody of the holy Spirit of Jesus was eternal. Thatday the thief would be with Jesus only in a finite [25]and material sense of relief; while our Lord wouldsoon be rising to the supremacy of Spirit, workingout, even in the silent tomb, those wonderful demon-strations of divine power, in which none could equal hisglory. [30][pg 071]Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely[1]well myself?The late John B. Gough is said to have suffered froman appetite for alcoholic drink until his death; yet hesaved many a drunkard from this fatal appetite. Paul [5]had a thorn in the flesh: one writer thinks that he wastroubled with rheumatism, and another that he had soreeyes; but this is certain, that he healed others who weresick. It is unquestionably right to do right; and heal-ing the sick is a very right thing to do. [10]Does Christian Science set aside the law of transmission,prenatal desires, and good or bad influences on the unbornchild?Science never averts law, but supports it. All actualcausation must interpret omnipotence, the all-knowing [15]Mind. Law brings out Truth, not error; unfolds divinePrinciple,—but neither human hypothesis nor matter.Errors are based on a mortal or material formation; theyare suppositional modes, not the factors of divine presenceand power. [20]Whatever is humanly conceived is a departure fromdivine law; hence its mythical origin and certain end.According to the Scriptures,—St. Paul declares astutely,“For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are allthings,”—man is incapable of originating; nothing can [25]be formed apart from God, good, the all-knowing Mind.What seems to be of human origin is the counterfeitof the divine,—even human concepts, mortal shadowsflitting across the dial of time.Whatever is real is right and eternal; hence the im- [30]mutable and just law of Science, that God is good only,[pg 072]and can transmit to man and the universe nothing evil, [1]or unlike Himself. For the innocent babe to be born alifelong sufferer because of his parents' mistakes or sins,were sore injustice. Science sets aside man as a creator,and unfolds the eternal harmonies of the only living and [5]true origin, God.According to the beliefs of the flesh, both good andbad traits of the parents are transmitted to their help-less offspring, and God is supposed to impart to manthis fatal power. It is cause for rejoicing that this belief [10]is as false as it is remorseless. The immutable Wordsaith, through the prophet Ezekiel,“What mean ye, thatye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children'steeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, [15]ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverbin Israel.”Are material things real when they are harmonious, anddo they disappear only to the natural sense? Does thisScripture,“Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have[20]need of all these things”imply that Spirit takes note ofmatter?The Science of Mind, as well as the material uniiverse, shows that nothing which is material is inperpetual harmony. Matter is manifest mortal mind, [35]and it exists only to material sense. Real sensationis not material; it is, and must be, mental: and Mindis not mortal, it is immortal. Being is God, infiniteSpirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, oroutside of infinity. [30]The Scriptural passage quoted affords no evidence of[pg 073]the reality of matter, or that God is conscious of it. [1]The so-called material body is said to suffer, but thissupposition is proven erroneous when Mind casts outthe suffering. The Scripture saith,“Whom the Lordloveth He chasteneth;”and again,“He doth not[5]afflict willingly.”Interpreted materially, these pas-sages conflict; they mingle the testimony of immor-tal Science with mortal sense; but once discern theirspiritual meaning, and it separates the false sense fromthe true, and establishes the reality of what is spiritual, [10]and the unreality of materiality.Law is never material: it is always mental and moral,and a commandment to the wise. The foolish disobeymoral law, and are punished. Human wisdom thereforecan get no farther than to say, He knoweth that we have [15]need of experience. Belief fulfils the conditions of a be-lief, and these conditions destroy the belief. Hence theverdict of experience: We have need ofthesethings; wehave need to know that the so-called pleasures and painsof matter—yea, that all subjective states of false sensa- [20]tion—areunreal.“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration whenthe Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory,ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the[25]twelve tribes of Israel.”(Matt. xix. 28.)What is meantby regeneration?It is the appearing of divine law to human under-standing; the spiritualization that comes from spiritualsense in contradistinction to the testimony of the so- [30]called material senses. The phenomena of Spirit in[pg 074]Christian Science, and the divine correspondence of [1]noumenon and phenomenon understood, are here signi-fied. This new-born sense subdues not only the falsesense of generation, but the human will, and the un-natural enmity of mortal man toward God. It quickly [5]imparts a new apprehension of the true basis of being,and the spiritual foundation for the affections which en-throne the Son of man in the glory of his Father; andjudges, through the stern mandate of Science, all humansystems of etiology and teleology. [10]If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was“the way, the truth, and the life,”cognize it?Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of thatwhich mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual andimmortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission [15]was to translate substance into its original meaning,Mind. He walked upon the waves; he turned the waterinto wine; he healed the sick and the sinner; he raisedthe dead, and rolled away the stone from the door of hisown tomb. His demonstration of Spirit virtually van- [20]quished matter and its supposed laws. Walking thewave, he proved the fallacy of the theory that matter issubstance; healing through Mind, he removed any sup-position that matter is intelligent, or can recognize orexpress pain and pleasure. His triumph over the grave [25]was an everlasting victory for Life; it demonstrated thelifelessness of matter, and the power and permanenceof Spirit. He met and conquered the resistance of theworld.If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither [30]substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that[pg 075]is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the [1]garment of Jesus' idea of matter, Christ was“the way;”since Life and Truth were the way that gave us, througha human person, a spiritual revelation of man's possibleearthly development. [5]Why do you insist that there is but one Soul, and thatSoul is not in the body?First:I urge this fundamental fact and grand verityof Christian Science, because it includes a rule that mustbe understood, or it is impossible to demonstrate the Sci- [10]ence. Soul is a synonym of Spirit, and God is Spirit.There is but one God, and the infinite is not within thefinite; hence Soul is one, and is God; and God is not inmatter or the mortal body.Second:Because Soul is a term for Deity, and this [15]term should seldom be employed except where the wordGodcan be used and make complete sense. The wordSoulmay sometimes be used metaphorically; but if thisterm is warped to signify human quality, a substitutionofsenseforsoulclears the meaning, and assists one to [20]understand Christian Science. Mary's exclamation,“"Mysouldoth magnify the Lord,”is rendered in Sci-ence,“Myspiritual sensedoth magnify the Lord;”for the name of Deity used in that place does not bringout the meaning of the passage. It was evidently an [25]illuminated sense through which she discovered thespiritual origin of man.“The soul that sinneth, it shalldie,”means, that mortal man (aliasmaterial sense) thatsinneth, shall die; and the commonly accepted view isthatsoulis deathless. Soul is the divine Mind,—for [30]Soul cannot be formed or brought forth by human[pg 076]

Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition[25]of mortality?

Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition[25]

of mortality?

It is quite as possible to know wherefore man is thusconditioned, as to be certain that heisin a state ofmortality. The only evidence of the existence of a mor-tal man, or of a material state and universe, is gathered [30]

It is quite as possible to know wherefore man is thus

conditioned, as to be certain that heisin a state of

mortality. The only evidence of the existence of a mor-

tal man, or of a material state and universe, is gathered [30]

from the five personal senses. This delusive evidence, [1]Science has dethroned by repeated proofs of its falsity.

from the five personal senses. This delusive evidence, [1]

Science has dethroned by repeated proofs of its falsity.

We have no more proof of human discord,—sin,sickness, disease, or death,—than we have that theearth's surface is flat, and her motions imaginary. If [5]man'sipse dixitas to the stellar system is correct, thisis because Science is true, and the evidence of the sensesis false. Then why not submit to the affirmations ofScience concerning the greater subject of human wealand woe? Every question between Truth and error, [10]Science must and will decide. Left to the decision ofScience, your query concerns a negative which the posi-tive Truth destroys; for God's universe and man areimmortal. We must not consider the false side of exist-ence in order to gain the true solution of Life and its [15]great realities.

We have no more proof of human discord,—sin,

sickness, disease, or death,—than we have that the

earth's surface is flat, and her motions imaginary. If [5]

man'sipse dixitas to the stellar system is correct, this

is because Science is true, and the evidence of the senses

is false. Then why not submit to the affirmations of

Science concerning the greater subject of human weal

and woe? Every question between Truth and error, [10]

Science must and will decide. Left to the decision of

Science, your query concerns a negative which the posi-

tive Truth destroys; for God's universe and man are

immortal. We must not consider the false side of exist-

ence in order to gain the true solution of Life and its [15]

great realities.

Have you changed your instructions as to the right wayof treating disease?

Have you changed your instructions as to the right way

of treating disease?

I have not; and this important fact must be, and al-ready is, apprehended by those who understand my in- [20]structions on this question. Christian Science demandsboth law and gospel, in order to demonstrate healing,and I have taught them both in its demonstration, andwith signs following. They are a unit in restoring theequipoise of mind and body, and balancing man's ac- [25]count with his Maker. The sequence proves that strictadherence to one is inadequate to compensate for theabsence of the other, since both constitute the divine lawof healing.

I have not; and this important fact must be, and al-

ready is, apprehended by those who understand my in- [20]

structions on this question. Christian Science demands

both law and gospel, in order to demonstrate healing,

and I have taught them both in its demonstration, and

with signs following. They are a unit in restoring the

equipoise of mind and body, and balancing man's ac- [25]

count with his Maker. The sequence proves that strict

adherence to one is inadequate to compensate for the

absence of the other, since both constitute the divine law

of healing.

The Jewish religion demands that“whoso sheddeth[30]man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.”But this

The Jewish religion demands that“whoso sheddeth[30]

man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.”But this

law is not infallible in wisdom; and obedience thereto [1]may be found faulty, since false testimony or mistakenevidence may cause the innocent to suffer for the guilty.Hence the gospel that fulfils the law in righteousness,the genius whereof is displayed in the surprising wisdom [5]of these words of the New Testament:“Whatsoevera man soweth, that shall he also reap.”No possibleinjustice lurks in this mandate, and no human mis-judgment can pervert it; for the offender alone suffers,and always according to divine decree. This sacred, [10]solid precept is verified in all directions in Mind-healing, and is supported in the Scripture by parallelproof.

law is not infallible in wisdom; and obedience thereto [1]

may be found faulty, since false testimony or mistaken

evidence may cause the innocent to suffer for the guilty.

Hence the gospel that fulfils the law in righteousness,

the genius whereof is displayed in the surprising wisdom [5]

of these words of the New Testament:“Whatsoever

a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”No possible

injustice lurks in this mandate, and no human mis-

judgment can pervert it; for the offender alone suffers,

and always according to divine decree. This sacred, [10]

solid precept is verified in all directions in Mind-

healing, and is supported in the Scripture by parallel

proof.

The law and gospel of Truth and Love teach, throughdivine Science, that sin is identical with suffering, and [15]that suffering is the lighter affliction. To reach the sum-mit of Science, whence to discern God's perfect waysand means, the material sense must be controlled bythe higher spiritual sense, and Truth be enthroned,while“we look not at the things which are seen, but at[20]the things which are not seen.”

The law and gospel of Truth and Love teach, through

divine Science, that sin is identical with suffering, and [15]

that suffering is the lighter affliction. To reach the sum-

mit of Science, whence to discern God's perfect ways

and means, the material sense must be controlled by

the higher spiritual sense, and Truth be enthroned,

while“we look not at the things which are seen, but at[20]

the things which are not seen.”

Cynical critics misjudge my meaning as to the sci-entific treatment of the sick. Disease that is superin-duced by sin is not healed like the more physicalailment. The beginner in sin-healing must know this, or [25]he never can reach the Science of Mind-healing, andso“overcome evil with good.”Error in premise is metwith error in practice; yea, it is“the blind leading theblind.”Ignorance of the cause of disease can neitherremove that cause nor its effect. [30]

Cynical critics misjudge my meaning as to the sci-

entific treatment of the sick. Disease that is superin-

duced by sin is not healed like the more physical

ailment. The beginner in sin-healing must know this, or [25]

he never can reach the Science of Mind-healing, and

so“overcome evil with good.”Error in premise is met

with error in practice; yea, it is“the blind leading the

blind.”Ignorance of the cause of disease can neither

remove that cause nor its effect. [30]

I endeavor to accommodate my instructions to thepresent capability of the learner, and to support the

I endeavor to accommodate my instructions to the

present capability of the learner, and to support the

liberated thought until its altitude reaches beyond the [1]mere alphabet of Mind-healing. Above physical wants,lie the higher claims of the law and gospel of healing.First is the law, which saith:—

liberated thought until its altitude reaches beyond the [1]

mere alphabet of Mind-healing. Above physical wants,

lie the higher claims of the law and gospel of healing.

First is the law, which saith:—

“Thou shalt not commit adultery;”in other words, [5]thou shalt not adulterate Life, Truth, or Love,—men-tally, morally, or physically.“Thou shalt not steal;”that is, thou shalt not rob man of money, which is buttrash, compared with his rights of mind and character.“Thou shalt not kill;”that is, thou shalt not strike at the [10]eternal sense of Life with a malicious aim, but shaltknow that by doing thus thine own sense of Life shall beforfeited.“Thou shalt not bear false witness;”that is,thou shalt not utter a lie, either mentally or audibly, norcause it to be thought. Obedience to these command- [15]ments is indispensable to health, happiness, and lengthof days.

“Thou shalt not commit adultery;”in other words, [5]

thou shalt not adulterate Life, Truth, or Love,—men-

tally, morally, or physically.“Thou shalt not steal;”

that is, thou shalt not rob man of money, which is but

trash, compared with his rights of mind and character.

“Thou shalt not kill;”that is, thou shalt not strike at the [10]

eternal sense of Life with a malicious aim, but shalt

know that by doing thus thine own sense of Life shall be

forfeited.“Thou shalt not bear false witness;”that is,

thou shalt not utter a lie, either mentally or audibly, nor

cause it to be thought. Obedience to these command- [15]

ments is indispensable to health, happiness, and length

of days.

The gospel of healing demonstrates the law of Love.Justice uncovers sin of every sort; and mercy demandsthat if you see the danger menacing others, you shall, [20]Deo volente, inform them thereof. Only thus is the rightpractice of Mind-healing achieved, and the wrong prac-tice discerned, disarmed, and destroyed.

The gospel of healing demonstrates the law of Love.

Justice uncovers sin of every sort; and mercy demands

that if you see the danger menacing others, you shall, [20]

Deo volente, inform them thereof. Only thus is the right

practice of Mind-healing achieved, and the wrong prac-

tice discerned, disarmed, and destroyed.

Do you believe in translation?

Do you believe in translation?

If your question refers to language, whereby one ex- [25]presses the sense of words in one language by equiva-lent words in another, I do. If you refer to the removalof a person to heaven, without his subjection to death,I modify my affirmative answer. I believe in thisremoval being possible after all the footsteps requisite [30]have been taken up to the very throne, up to the

If your question refers to language, whereby one ex- [25]

presses the sense of words in one language by equiva-

lent words in another, I do. If you refer to the removal

of a person to heaven, without his subjection to death,

I modify my affirmative answer. I believe in this

removal being possible after all the footsteps requisite [30]

have been taken up to the very throne, up to the

spiritual sense and fact of divine substance, intelligence, [1]Life, and Love. This translation is not the work of mo-ments; it requires both time and eternity. It means morethan mere disappearance to the human sense; it mustinclude also man's changed appearance and diviner form [5]visible to those beholding him here.

spiritual sense and fact of divine substance, intelligence, [1]

Life, and Love. This translation is not the work of mo-

ments; it requires both time and eternity. It means more

than mere disappearance to the human sense; it must

include also man's changed appearance and diviner form [5]

visible to those beholding him here.

The Rev. —— said in a sermon: A true Christianwould protest against metaphysical healing being calledChristian Science. He also maintained that pain anddisease are not illusions but realities; and that it is not[10]Christian to believe they are illusions. Is this so?

The Rev. —— said in a sermon: A true Christian

would protest against metaphysical healing being called

Christian Science. He also maintained that pain and

disease are not illusions but realities; and that it is not[10]

Christian to believe they are illusions. Is this so?

It is unchristian to believe that pain and sickness areanythingbutillusions. My proof of this is, that thepenalty for believing in their reality is the very pain anddisease. Jesus cast out a devil, and the dumb spake; [15]hence it is right to know that the works of Satan are theillusion and error which Truth casts out.

It is unchristian to believe that pain and sickness are

anythingbutillusions. My proof of this is, that the

penalty for believing in their reality is the very pain and

disease. Jesus cast out a devil, and the dumb spake; [15]

hence it is right to know that the works of Satan are the

illusion and error which Truth casts out.

Does the gentleman above mentioned know themeaning of divine metaphysics, or of metaphysicaltheology? [20]

Does the gentleman above mentioned know the

meaning of divine metaphysics, or of metaphysical

theology? [20]

According to Webster, metaphysics is defined thus:“The science of the conceptions and relations which arenecessary to thought and knowledge; science of themind.”Worcester defines it as“the philosophy of mind,as distinguished from that of matter; a science of which [25]the object is to explain the principles and causes ofall things existing,”Brande calls metaphysics“thescience which regards the ultimate grounds of being, asdistinguished from its phenomenal modifications.”“Aspeculative science, which soars beyond the bounds of [30]experience,”is a further definition.

According to Webster, metaphysics is defined thus:

“The science of the conceptions and relations which are

necessary to thought and knowledge; science of the

mind.”Worcester defines it as“the philosophy of mind,

as distinguished from that of matter; a science of which [25]

the object is to explain the principles and causes of

all things existing,”Brande calls metaphysics“the

science which regards the ultimate grounds of being, as

distinguished from its phenomenal modifications.”“A

speculative science, which soars beyond the bounds of [30]

experience,”is a further definition.

Divine metaphysics is that which treats of the exist- [1]ence of God, His essence, relations, and attributes. Asneer at metaphysics is a scoff at Deity; at His goodness,mercy, and might.

Divine metaphysics is that which treats of the exist- [1]

ence of God, His essence, relations, and attributes. A

sneer at metaphysics is a scoff at Deity; at His goodness,

mercy, and might.

Christian Science is the unfolding of true metaphysics; [5]that is, of Mind, or God, and His attributes. Science restson Principle and demonstration. The Principle of Chris-tian Science is divine. Its rule is, that man shall utilizethe divine power.

Christian Science is the unfolding of true metaphysics; [5]

that is, of Mind, or God, and His attributes. Science rests

on Principle and demonstration. The Principle of Chris-

tian Science is divine. Its rule is, that man shall utilize

the divine power.

In Genesis i. 26, we read:“Let us make man in[10]our image, after our likeness: and let them havedominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl ofthe air.”

In Genesis i. 26, we read:“Let us make man in[10]

our image, after our likeness: and let them have

dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of

the air.”

I was once called to visit a sick man to whom theregular physicians had given three doses of Croton [15]oil, and then had left him to die. Upon my arrival Ifound him barely alive, and in terrible agony. In onehour he was well, and the next day he attended to hisbusiness. I removed the stoppage, healed him of en-teritis, and neutralized the bad effects of the poison- [20]ous oil. His physicians had failed even to move hisbowels,—though the wonder was, with the meansused in their effort to accomplish this result, thatthey had not quite killed him. According to theirdiagnosis, the exciting cause of the inflammation and [25]stoppage was—eating smoked herring. The man isliving yet; and I will send his address to any onewho may wish to apply to him for information abouthis case.

I was once called to visit a sick man to whom the

regular physicians had given three doses of Croton [15]

oil, and then had left him to die. Upon my arrival I

found him barely alive, and in terrible agony. In one

hour he was well, and the next day he attended to his

business. I removed the stoppage, healed him of en-

teritis, and neutralized the bad effects of the poison- [20]

ous oil. His physicians had failed even to move his

bowels,—though the wonder was, with the means

used in their effort to accomplish this result, that

they had not quite killed him. According to their

diagnosis, the exciting cause of the inflammation and [25]

stoppage was—eating smoked herring. The man is

living yet; and I will send his address to any one

who may wish to apply to him for information about

his case.

Now comes the question: Had that sick man dominion [30]over the fish in his stomach?

Now comes the question: Had that sick man dominion [30]

over the fish in his stomach?

His want of control over“the fish of the sea”must

His want of control over“the fish of the sea”must

have been an illusion, or else the Scriptures misstate [1]man's power. That the Bible is true I believe, notonly, but Idemonstratedits truth when I exercisedmy power over the fish, cast out the sick man's illu-sion, and healed him. Thus it was shown that the [5]healing action of Mind upon the body has its only ex-planation in divine metaphysics. As a man“thinkethin his heart, so is he.”When the mortal thought, or be-lief, was removed, the man was well.

have been an illusion, or else the Scriptures misstate [1]

man's power. That the Bible is true I believe, not

only, but Idemonstratedits truth when I exercised

my power over the fish, cast out the sick man's illu-

sion, and healed him. Thus it was shown that the [5]

healing action of Mind upon the body has its only ex-

planation in divine metaphysics. As a man“thinketh

in his heart, so is he.”When the mortal thought, or be-

lief, was removed, the man was well.

What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief,[10]“To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise”?

What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief,[10]

“To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise”?

Paradisaical rest from physical agony would come tothe criminal, if the dream of dying should startle himfrom the dream of suffering. The paradise of Spiritwould come to Jesus, in a spiritual sense of Life and [15]power. Christ Jesus lived and reappeared. He was toogood to die; for goodness is immortal. The thief wasnot equal to the demands of the hour; but sin was de-stroying itself, and had already begun to die,—asthe poor thief's prayer for help indicated. The dy- [20]ing malefactor and our Lord were inevitably sepa-rated through Mind. The thief's body, as matter,must dissolve into its native nothingness; whereas thebody of the holy Spirit of Jesus was eternal. Thatday the thief would be with Jesus only in a finite [25]and material sense of relief; while our Lord wouldsoon be rising to the supremacy of Spirit, workingout, even in the silent tomb, those wonderful demon-strations of divine power, in which none could equal hisglory. [30]

Paradisaical rest from physical agony would come to

the criminal, if the dream of dying should startle him

from the dream of suffering. The paradise of Spirit

would come to Jesus, in a spiritual sense of Life and [15]

power. Christ Jesus lived and reappeared. He was too

good to die; for goodness is immortal. The thief was

not equal to the demands of the hour; but sin was de-

stroying itself, and had already begun to die,—as

the poor thief's prayer for help indicated. The dy- [20]

ing malefactor and our Lord were inevitably sepa-

rated through Mind. The thief's body, as matter,

must dissolve into its native nothingness; whereas the

body of the holy Spirit of Jesus was eternal. That

day the thief would be with Jesus only in a finite [25]

and material sense of relief; while our Lord would

soon be rising to the supremacy of Spirit, working

out, even in the silent tomb, those wonderful demon-

strations of divine power, in which none could equal his

glory. [30]

Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely[1]well myself?

Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely[1]

well myself?

The late John B. Gough is said to have suffered froman appetite for alcoholic drink until his death; yet hesaved many a drunkard from this fatal appetite. Paul [5]had a thorn in the flesh: one writer thinks that he wastroubled with rheumatism, and another that he had soreeyes; but this is certain, that he healed others who weresick. It is unquestionably right to do right; and heal-ing the sick is a very right thing to do. [10]

The late John B. Gough is said to have suffered from

an appetite for alcoholic drink until his death; yet he

saved many a drunkard from this fatal appetite. Paul [5]

had a thorn in the flesh: one writer thinks that he was

troubled with rheumatism, and another that he had sore

eyes; but this is certain, that he healed others who were

sick. It is unquestionably right to do right; and heal-

ing the sick is a very right thing to do. [10]

Does Christian Science set aside the law of transmission,prenatal desires, and good or bad influences on the unbornchild?

Does Christian Science set aside the law of transmission,

prenatal desires, and good or bad influences on the unborn

child?

Science never averts law, but supports it. All actualcausation must interpret omnipotence, the all-knowing [15]Mind. Law brings out Truth, not error; unfolds divinePrinciple,—but neither human hypothesis nor matter.Errors are based on a mortal or material formation; theyare suppositional modes, not the factors of divine presenceand power. [20]

Science never averts law, but supports it. All actual

causation must interpret omnipotence, the all-knowing [15]

Mind. Law brings out Truth, not error; unfolds divine

Principle,—but neither human hypothesis nor matter.

Errors are based on a mortal or material formation; they

are suppositional modes, not the factors of divine presence

and power. [20]

Whatever is humanly conceived is a departure fromdivine law; hence its mythical origin and certain end.According to the Scriptures,—St. Paul declares astutely,“For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are allthings,”—man is incapable of originating; nothing can [25]be formed apart from God, good, the all-knowing Mind.What seems to be of human origin is the counterfeitof the divine,—even human concepts, mortal shadowsflitting across the dial of time.

Whatever is humanly conceived is a departure from

divine law; hence its mythical origin and certain end.

According to the Scriptures,—St. Paul declares astutely,

“For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all

things,”—man is incapable of originating; nothing can [25]

be formed apart from God, good, the all-knowing Mind.

What seems to be of human origin is the counterfeit

of the divine,—even human concepts, mortal shadows

flitting across the dial of time.

Whatever is real is right and eternal; hence the im- [30]mutable and just law of Science, that God is good only,

Whatever is real is right and eternal; hence the im- [30]

mutable and just law of Science, that God is good only,

and can transmit to man and the universe nothing evil, [1]or unlike Himself. For the innocent babe to be born alifelong sufferer because of his parents' mistakes or sins,were sore injustice. Science sets aside man as a creator,and unfolds the eternal harmonies of the only living and [5]true origin, God.

and can transmit to man and the universe nothing evil, [1]

or unlike Himself. For the innocent babe to be born a

lifelong sufferer because of his parents' mistakes or sins,

were sore injustice. Science sets aside man as a creator,

and unfolds the eternal harmonies of the only living and [5]

true origin, God.

According to the beliefs of the flesh, both good andbad traits of the parents are transmitted to their help-less offspring, and God is supposed to impart to manthis fatal power. It is cause for rejoicing that this belief [10]is as false as it is remorseless. The immutable Wordsaith, through the prophet Ezekiel,“What mean ye, thatye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children'steeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, [15]ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverbin Israel.”

According to the beliefs of the flesh, both good and

bad traits of the parents are transmitted to their help-

less offspring, and God is supposed to impart to man

this fatal power. It is cause for rejoicing that this belief [10]

is as false as it is remorseless. The immutable Word

saith, through the prophet Ezekiel,“What mean ye, that

ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's

teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, [15]

ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb

in Israel.”

Are material things real when they are harmonious, anddo they disappear only to the natural sense? Does thisScripture,“Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have[20]need of all these things”imply that Spirit takes note ofmatter?

Are material things real when they are harmonious, and

do they disappear only to the natural sense? Does this

Scripture,“Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have[20]

need of all these things”imply that Spirit takes note of

matter?

The Science of Mind, as well as the material uniiverse, shows that nothing which is material is inperpetual harmony. Matter is manifest mortal mind, [35]and it exists only to material sense. Real sensationis not material; it is, and must be, mental: and Mindis not mortal, it is immortal. Being is God, infiniteSpirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, oroutside of infinity. [30]

The Science of Mind, as well as the material unii

verse, shows that nothing which is material is in

perpetual harmony. Matter is manifest mortal mind, [35]

and it exists only to material sense. Real sensation

is not material; it is, and must be, mental: and Mind

is not mortal, it is immortal. Being is God, infinite

Spirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, or

outside of infinity. [30]

The Scriptural passage quoted affords no evidence of

The Scriptural passage quoted affords no evidence of

the reality of matter, or that God is conscious of it. [1]The so-called material body is said to suffer, but thissupposition is proven erroneous when Mind casts outthe suffering. The Scripture saith,“Whom the Lordloveth He chasteneth;”and again,“He doth not[5]afflict willingly.”Interpreted materially, these pas-sages conflict; they mingle the testimony of immor-tal Science with mortal sense; but once discern theirspiritual meaning, and it separates the false sense fromthe true, and establishes the reality of what is spiritual, [10]and the unreality of materiality.

the reality of matter, or that God is conscious of it. [1]

The so-called material body is said to suffer, but this

supposition is proven erroneous when Mind casts out

the suffering. The Scripture saith,“Whom the Lord

loveth He chasteneth;”and again,“He doth not[5]

afflict willingly.”Interpreted materially, these pas-

sages conflict; they mingle the testimony of immor-

tal Science with mortal sense; but once discern their

spiritual meaning, and it separates the false sense from

the true, and establishes the reality of what is spiritual, [10]

and the unreality of materiality.

Law is never material: it is always mental and moral,and a commandment to the wise. The foolish disobeymoral law, and are punished. Human wisdom thereforecan get no farther than to say, He knoweth that we have [15]need of experience. Belief fulfils the conditions of a be-lief, and these conditions destroy the belief. Hence theverdict of experience: We have need ofthesethings; wehave need to know that the so-called pleasures and painsof matter—yea, that all subjective states of false sensa- [20]tion—areunreal.

Law is never material: it is always mental and moral,

and a commandment to the wise. The foolish disobey

moral law, and are punished. Human wisdom therefore

can get no farther than to say, He knoweth that we have [15]

need of experience. Belief fulfils the conditions of a be-

lief, and these conditions destroy the belief. Hence the

verdict of experience: We have need ofthesethings; we

have need to know that the so-called pleasures and pains

of matter—yea, that all subjective states of false sensa- [20]

tion—areunreal.

“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration whenthe Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory,ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the[25]twelve tribes of Israel.”(Matt. xix. 28.)What is meantby regeneration?

“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,

That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when

the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory,

ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the[25]

twelve tribes of Israel.”(Matt. xix. 28.)What is meant

by regeneration?

It is the appearing of divine law to human under-standing; the spiritualization that comes from spiritualsense in contradistinction to the testimony of the so- [30]called material senses. The phenomena of Spirit in

It is the appearing of divine law to human under-

standing; the spiritualization that comes from spiritual

sense in contradistinction to the testimony of the so- [30]

called material senses. The phenomena of Spirit in

Christian Science, and the divine correspondence of [1]noumenon and phenomenon understood, are here signi-fied. This new-born sense subdues not only the falsesense of generation, but the human will, and the un-natural enmity of mortal man toward God. It quickly [5]imparts a new apprehension of the true basis of being,and the spiritual foundation for the affections which en-throne the Son of man in the glory of his Father; andjudges, through the stern mandate of Science, all humansystems of etiology and teleology. [10]

Christian Science, and the divine correspondence of [1]

noumenon and phenomenon understood, are here signi-

fied. This new-born sense subdues not only the false

sense of generation, but the human will, and the un-

natural enmity of mortal man toward God. It quickly [5]

imparts a new apprehension of the true basis of being,

and the spiritual foundation for the affections which en-

throne the Son of man in the glory of his Father; and

judges, through the stern mandate of Science, all human

systems of etiology and teleology. [10]

If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was“the way, the truth, and the life,”cognize it?

If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was

“the way, the truth, and the life,”cognize it?

Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of thatwhich mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual andimmortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission [15]was to translate substance into its original meaning,Mind. He walked upon the waves; he turned the waterinto wine; he healed the sick and the sinner; he raisedthe dead, and rolled away the stone from the door of hisown tomb. His demonstration of Spirit virtually van- [20]quished matter and its supposed laws. Walking thewave, he proved the fallacy of the theory that matter issubstance; healing through Mind, he removed any sup-position that matter is intelligent, or can recognize orexpress pain and pleasure. His triumph over the grave [25]was an everlasting victory for Life; it demonstrated thelifelessness of matter, and the power and permanenceof Spirit. He met and conquered the resistance of theworld.

Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of that

which mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual and

immortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission [15]

was to translate substance into its original meaning,

Mind. He walked upon the waves; he turned the water

into wine; he healed the sick and the sinner; he raised

the dead, and rolled away the stone from the door of his

own tomb. His demonstration of Spirit virtually van- [20]

quished matter and its supposed laws. Walking the

wave, he proved the fallacy of the theory that matter is

substance; healing through Mind, he removed any sup-

position that matter is intelligent, or can recognize or

express pain and pleasure. His triumph over the grave [25]

was an everlasting victory for Life; it demonstrated the

lifelessness of matter, and the power and permanence

of Spirit. He met and conquered the resistance of the

world.

If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither [30]substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that

If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither [30]

substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that

is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the [1]garment of Jesus' idea of matter, Christ was“the way;”since Life and Truth were the way that gave us, througha human person, a spiritual revelation of man's possibleearthly development. [5]

is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the [1]

garment of Jesus' idea of matter, Christ was“the way;”

since Life and Truth were the way that gave us, through

a human person, a spiritual revelation of man's possible

earthly development. [5]

Why do you insist that there is but one Soul, and thatSoul is not in the body?

Why do you insist that there is but one Soul, and that

Soul is not in the body?

First:I urge this fundamental fact and grand verityof Christian Science, because it includes a rule that mustbe understood, or it is impossible to demonstrate the Sci- [10]ence. Soul is a synonym of Spirit, and God is Spirit.There is but one God, and the infinite is not within thefinite; hence Soul is one, and is God; and God is not inmatter or the mortal body.

First:I urge this fundamental fact and grand verity

of Christian Science, because it includes a rule that must

be understood, or it is impossible to demonstrate the Sci- [10]

ence. Soul is a synonym of Spirit, and God is Spirit.

There is but one God, and the infinite is not within the

finite; hence Soul is one, and is God; and God is not in

matter or the mortal body.

Second:Because Soul is a term for Deity, and this [15]term should seldom be employed except where the wordGodcan be used and make complete sense. The wordSoulmay sometimes be used metaphorically; but if thisterm is warped to signify human quality, a substitutionofsenseforsoulclears the meaning, and assists one to [20]understand Christian Science. Mary's exclamation,“"Mysouldoth magnify the Lord,”is rendered in Sci-ence,“Myspiritual sensedoth magnify the Lord;”for the name of Deity used in that place does not bringout the meaning of the passage. It was evidently an [25]illuminated sense through which she discovered thespiritual origin of man.“The soul that sinneth, it shalldie,”means, that mortal man (aliasmaterial sense) thatsinneth, shall die; and the commonly accepted view isthatsoulis deathless. Soul is the divine Mind,—for [30]Soul cannot be formed or brought forth by human

Second:Because Soul is a term for Deity, and this [15]

term should seldom be employed except where the word

Godcan be used and make complete sense. The word

Soulmay sometimes be used metaphorically; but if this

term is warped to signify human quality, a substitution

ofsenseforsoulclears the meaning, and assists one to [20]

understand Christian Science. Mary's exclamation,

“"Mysouldoth magnify the Lord,”is rendered in Sci-

ence,“Myspiritual sensedoth magnify the Lord;”

for the name of Deity used in that place does not bring

out the meaning of the passage. It was evidently an [25]

illuminated sense through which she discovered the

spiritual origin of man.“The soul that sinneth, it shall

die,”means, that mortal man (aliasmaterial sense) that

sinneth, shall die; and the commonly accepted view is

thatsoulis deathless. Soul is the divine Mind,—for [30]

Soul cannot be formed or brought forth by human

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