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Rh Jesus established what he said by demonstration, thus making his acts of higher importance than his words. He demonstrated what he taught. This is the divine scheme and the Science of Christianity. Jesus proved the Principle to be divine, that heals the sick and casts out error. Few however, except his students, understood in the least his teachings and their glorious proofs — namely, that Life, Truth, and Love (the Principle of his unacknowledged Science) destroy all error, sickness, sin, and death.

The reception accorded to Truth in the early Christian era, history now repeats. Whoever introduces the Science of Christianity will be scoffed at, and scourged with worse cords than those which cut the flesh. To the ignorant age in which it first appears Science seems a miracle. Hence the misinterpretation and consequent maltreatment which it receives. Christian marvels (and marvel is the simple meaning of the Greek word rendered miracle in the New Testament) will be misunderstood and misused by charlatans and the misjudging, until the underlying Principle of these marvels is gained.

If sin, sickness, and death are as real as Goodness, Life, and Truth, then they must all be from the same source, God being their author. Now Jesus came to destroy sin, sickness, and death; yet he “came not to destroy but to fulfil.” Is it possible then to believe that the evils which he lived to destroy are the offspring of the Divine Will? Despite the hallowing influence of Truth to destroy error, must it still be immortal? Truth spares all that is true. If evil is real, Truth must make it so; but error, not Truth, is the author of the unreal; for the