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198 in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.” The false sense of Life, Substance, and Mind hides their possibilities, and conceals scientific demonstration.

Materia medica substitutes drugs for the power of God — even the might of Mind — to heal the body. Scholastic theology clings to the person, instead of the Divine Principle, of the man Jesus to save, while his Science, the curative agent of God, is silenced. Why? Because Science divests material drugs of their imaginary power, and clothes Spirit with supremacy over every ill that flesh is heir to. Science is “the stranger within our gates,” remembered not, even when its elevating effects prove practically its divine origin and efficiency.

Theology should include healing the sick; since our Master's first article of faith was healing, and he proved his faith by his works. The ancient Christians were healers. Why has this element of Christianity been lost? Because, I regret to say, our systems of religion are governed more or less by our systems of medicine. The first idolatry was faith in matter. The schools have rendered faith in drugs the fashion, rather than faith in Deity. Trusting matter to destroy its own discord, harmony has been lost. Such systems are barren of the vitality of spiritual production, whereby sense becomes the servant of Science.

Jesus never spake of disease as dangerous, or difficult to treat. When his students brought to him cases they had failed to heal, he said unto them, “Oh ye of little faith!” implying that the requisite power was in Mind. He prescribed no drugs, urged no obedience to so-called material laws, but acted in direct disobedience thereto.