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Rh The motive of my earliest labors has never changed. It was to relieve the sufferings of humanity, by a sanitary system that should include all moral and religious reform.

following ideas of Deity, antagonized by finite theories, doctrines, and hypotheses, I found to be demonstrable rules in Christian Science, and that we must abide by them.

Whatever diverges from the One Divine Mind, or God, — or divides Mind into minds, Spirit into spirits, Soul into souls, and Mind into matter, — is a broken link in the chain of Divine Science, which interrupts the meaning of the omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of Spirit, and is of human instead of divine origin.

I learned that war is waged between the evidences of Spirit and the evidences of the five physical senses; and that this contest must go on until peace be declared by the final triumph of Spirit in immutable harmony. Divine Science wars against sin, sickness, and death, on the basis of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God, or Good.

All consciousness is Mind, and Mind is God. Hence there is but one Mind; and that one is the infinite Good, supplying all Mind by the reflection, not the subdivision, of God. The sun sends forth light, but not suns; so God reflects Himself, or Mind, but does not subdivide Mind, or Good, into minds good and evil. Divine Science demands mighty wrestlings with mortal beliefs, as we sail into the eternal haven over the unfathomable sea of possibilities.

Neither ancient nor modern philosophy furnishes a Scientific basis for Christian Science, or Metaphysical Healing. Plato believed his soul must be doctored in order to heal his body. This would be like correct-