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Rh she came running to her mother with laughing eyes and cheeks aglow, informing her “my finger is not a bit sore, and you have done nothing for it.” It might have taken months or years for her parents to have gained her position, and laid aside their drugs. We see, through the daily proofs of this science, the power of education on the mind, and how “out of the mouth of babes hast Thou perfected praise.” The older and stubborn beliefs of adults may even choke this good seed in the minds of their offspring; like unto the “fowls of the air” they carry it away, because of their want of understanding, before it can take root.

As in mathematics a reversed statement proves the rule, so, also, in the science of life, for example:

There is no pain in Truth, and no Truth in pain; no matter in mind, and no mind in matter; no nerve in Intelligence, and no Intelligence in nerve; no matter in Spirit, and no Spirit in matter, etc. That man should lose his identity because Soul is not in body, and Intelligence in matter, is quite as impossible as that tones of music should be lost in their Principle. Theories and doctrines have never yet explained Spirit and matter, but the Scriptures have, and as science demonstrates them, namely, Life and its idea. “Thou shalt surely die,” is the sentence of Wisdom daily executed on the belief of Life and Substance in matter, and yet man is not dead; then wherefore doubt belief is error, and man idea and not Substance, and Spirit the only Substance, because it is the Principle of man and the universe. This science of being cannot be seen at once in the midst of so many beliefs that deny all explanations of man, spiritually, and accept only a material