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Rh religious systems, from doctrines of physics or divinity, and it has not yet been generally accepted.

The prophets of old believed, but did not understand. They looked for something higher than the systems of their times; hence their foresight of Christ's coming. But even they knew not what would be the precise nature of the teaching and demonstration of God, in the more infinite meanings, that should reinstate harmony, destroy sin, sickness, and death, establish the definition of omnipotence, and give the true Science of Spirit.

Jesus established in the Christian era the precedent for all Christianity, theology, and healing. Christians now, as then, are under as direct orders to be Christlike, to possess his Spirit and follow his example, — healing the sick as well as the sinner; and they will find it much easier to cast out the evil of sickness than the evil of sin. The sick are more willing to part with the pains of sense than the sinner with the pleasures of sense, and the Christian can prove this to-day as readily as he could eighteen centuries ago. Let the gainsayer disprove this if he can.

The system Jesus taught rested upon this platform: “Go ye into all the world. Heal the sick and preach the gospel to the poor. Love thy neighbor as thyself.” It was his theology that healed the sick and sinner; and it is his theology, in this book, that heals the sick, and causes the evil to forsake their ways and the righteous to rejoice. It is his theology that the rulers sought of old to kill, and are to-day antagonizing.

This was the Divine Science of which our Master said “When he shall come, he will show you all things.” The Sermon on the Mount is the essence of this Science.