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290 Jesus said: “These signs shall follow them that believe, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.” Who believes him? He was addressing his disciples, yet he did not say, “These signs shall follow you,” but them — “them that believe,” in all time to come. At another time he prayed not for the twelve only, but for as many as should believe “through their word.”

The advanced thinker and devout Christian, perceiving its scope and tendency, will support Christian healing and its Science. Others will say, “Go thy way for this time; when we have a more convenient season we will call for thee.”

The medium through which Immortality and Life are learned is not human but divine, not physical but metaphysical, not material but spiritual.

Human philosophy, doctrines, ethics, and theories afford no demonstrable Principle, whereby man can work out his own salvation; yet this is what the Bible demands. Jesus has furnished this key to the kingdom, and the treasury of Truth is closed to all other keys. None may pick the lock, or enter by some other door.

The nature of Christianity is peace and blessedness; but the joys and triumphs, as well as the afflictions of the righteous, must place the anchor of hope beyond the vail of matter, in the Shekinah into which Jesus passed before us. Like him, we must get away from material sense, into the spiritual sense of all things.

Imposition is mental quackery, a mistaken mind-cure of some sort, a patent medicine, or a patent error of mortal mind. Using the letter of healing, but omitting the Spirit, is by no means the Science of Mind-healing, which is seen in a gradual outgrowing of the pleasures and