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12 radiant realities of good; and there was present to me, as never before, the awful unreality of evil. This vision announced the equipollence of God, consecrated my affections anew, and revealed the glorious possibilities of the petition, “Thy kingdom come on earth as in heaven.”

In following the leadings of this revelation, the Bible was my only text-book. The inspired volume seemed illumined, reconciling right reason with revelation, and establishing the truths of Christian Science. No human tongue or pen has suggested the contents of “Science and Health,” nor can tongue or pen ever overthrow it. My book may be distorted by shallow criticism or by inaccurate reporters, and its ideas forced temporarily into wrong channels; but its truths will remain for the Christ-inspired to discern and follow.

Jesus demonstrated the power of Divine Science to heal mortal minds and bodies; but this Science was lost sight of, and must again be spiritually discerned; and it must be demonstrated (according to Christ's command) with signs following, to as many as shall believe on Him.

No analogy exists between the vague hypotheses of Pantheism, Gnosticism, Spiritualism, or Infidelity, and the demonstrable truths of Christian Science; and I find the so-called power, will, or reason of the human mind, to be opposed to the Divine Mind, expressed through Science. In Truth, and its marvellous ability to reveal God, there is nothing supernatural, for this is its normal function.

A prize of £100 has been offered in Oxford University, England, for the best essay on Natural Science, — an essay calculated to offset the tendency of the age to