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Rh Miracles are impossible in Science. The highest manifestation of Life or Truth is divine, — not supernatural or preternatural, since Science is nature explicated.

The decaying flower, the blighted bud, the gnarled oak, the ferocious beast, — like the discords of sickness, sin, and death, — are unnatural. They are the falsities of sense, the changing reflections of mortal mind, and not the realities of Soul.

Eloquence reverberates with the strains of Truth and Love. It is inspiration, more than erudition. It shows the possibilities of Mind; though it is said to be a gift, whose endowment is obtained from books or derived from the impulsion of departed spirits. When eloquence proceeds from the belief that a departed spirit is speaking, who can tell what the unaided medium is incapable of uttering or knowing, this shows that the fetters of mortal mind are loosed. Forgetting her ignorance, in the belief that another mind is speaking through her, she may become unwontedly eloquent. Because she thinks somebody else possesses her tongue and mind, she talks freely.

Destroy her belief in outside aid, and her eloquence disappears. The former limits of her belief return. She says, “I am incapable of words that glow, for I am uneducated.” This familiar instance reaffirms the Scriptural word, “As a man thinketh, so is he.” If one believes that he cannot be an orator without study, the body responds to this belief; and the tongue grows mute, that before was eloquent.

Mind is not necessarily confined to the development of educational processes, but it possesses all beauty and poetry, with the power of expressing them.