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420 The Apostle James said, “Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.” The understanding that Life is God lengthens our days; and it strengthens our trust in Him, the deathless reality of Life, its almightiness and immortality.

This faith relies upon an understood Principle. This Principle makes whole the diseased, and brings out the enduring and harmonious phases of things. The result of my teachings is their sufficient confirmation. When, on the strength of these instructions, you are able to banish a severe malady, the cure shows that you understand my teaching, and get the benefit of its blessing.

The Hebrew and Greek words, often translated belief, differ somewhat in meaning from that conveyed by the English verb to believe, and its derivatives, having more the significance of understanding, trust, constancy, firmness. Hence the Scriptures often appear, in our common version, to approve and endorse belief, when they mean to enforce the necessity of understanding.

Question. — Do the five personal senses constitute man?

Answer. — Science sustains with immortal proof the impossibility of any material sense, and defines these so-called senses as Human Beliefs, whose testimony cannot be true of man or his Maker, — of whose reality, or immortality, the senses can take no cognizance. Nerves have no more sensation, apart from what belief bestows upon them, than the fibres of a plant. Mind alone feels, sees, tastes, smells, and hears; therefore these faculties continue when organization is destroyed. Otherwise the very worms could unfashion man. If it were possible for the real senses of man to be injured, Soul could