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Rh you ready to accept? One is the mortal evidence, unreal, changing, and dying. The other is the eternal and real testimony, bearing Truth's signet, its lap piled high with immortal fruits.

Our Master cast out devils and healed the sick. It should be said of his followers, that they cast evil out of themselves and others, and heal the sick. God will heal the sick through man, whenever man is governed by God. Truth casts out error now, as surely as it did eighteen centuries ago. All of Truth is not understood; hence its healing power is not fully demonstrated.

If sickness is Truth, or the idea of Truth, you cannot destroy it, and it would be absurd to attempt it. Then let us classify sickness and error as our Master did, when he said to the woman, “Satan hath bound thee.” Let us find a sovereign antidote for error in the inspiration of Truth, a power that opens the prison doors to such as are bound, and sets the captive free.

Cling steadfastly to God and His idea, if the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you. Let none but His likeness abide in you. Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of being — as it eternally is — can destroy any painful sense, or belief, of that which being is not. Let Science, instead of personal sense, support your theory of man, and your theory will supplant error with Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and remedy discord with harmony.

Question. — How can I progress most rapidly in the understanding of Christian Science? Answer. — After studying the letter, imbibe the Spirit. Adhere to its Divine Principle, and follow its behests, abiding steadfastly in Wisdom, Truth, and Love.