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Rh and will eventually hew down this illusion, either through a belief of death, or a better understanding of the Science of Life.

If God be admitted as the only Mind and Life, there is left no room for sin and death. When we learn in Science how to be perfect, even as our Father in Heaven is perfect, thought is turned into new and healthy channels, — towards the contemplation of things immortal, and away from the personality to the Principle of man. Because Life is God, it must be eternal, self-existent, — the everlasting “I Am,” the Being that was, and is, and shall be, and that nothing can erase.

Truth is “the resurrection and the Life,” for it destroys the belief that Mind, the only immortality of man, can be buried in the body, and Life be subject to death.

Knowledge gained from material sense is figuratively represented in Scripture as a tree, bearing the fruits of sin, sickness, and death. Ought we not then to judge this knowledge, thus conveyed, as untrue and dangerous, since “the tree is known by its fruits?”

Human resistance to Divine Science weakens in proportion as mortals give up error for Truth, and the understanding of being supersedes mere belief. Until I learned the vastness of Christian Science, the fixedness of mortal illusions, and human hatred of Truth, I had cherished sanguine hopes that Christian Science would meet with immediate and general acceptance. When the scientific relation of man to God is perceived we shall begin to demonstrate scientific being, by destroying the errors of sense and healing the sick.

Then we shall change our standpoints of Life and Intelligence from a material to a spiritual basis, gain the