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154 and Christianity. It is a grave mistake to attempt to steady the Ark of Science with an opinion. God is the Principle of all that represents Him, and of nothing else; for “there is none beside Him.”

The Christ-science, as taught by Jesus, reveals God's government as supreme. This Science declares a Divine Intelligence that is not a law of matter, since matter is not a law-giver. Science is an emanation of the eternal Mind, and is alone able to rightly interpret Truth. Hence its spiritual origin, and the nature of the Divine Comforter that leadeth into all Truth.

Christian Science eschews what is termed Natural Science, erected on the unnatural hypothesis that matter is its own law-giver, that law is governed by material conditions, and that these are final, overruling the might of Mind. Not less, but more, do these rejections prove Christian Science to rightly bear this name.

From Science I learn that Mind is Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Omniscience, all power, all presence, all Science; that there is but one cause, — hence but one Mind; that God creates and controls all.

In the Saxon language good was the term for God. The Scriptures declare all that He made to be good, like Himself: good in Principle and idea, — good as God, man, and the universe, which reflect the one Substance, Intelligence, and Soul. The visible and material are but poor counterfeits of the invisible and spiritual. God's thoughts are perfect and eternal. The imperfect and temporal are human thoughts, involving error, — causeless events and occurrences. Such transitory thoughts are the antipodes of Truth; though by the law of opposites these errors must also say, “We are true.”