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Divine Science deals its chief blow at the supposed material foundations of life and intelligence. It dooms idolatry. A belief in other gods, other creators, and other creations, must go down before Science. It unveils the results of sin, as shown in sickness and death. When will man pass through the open gate of Science, into the heaven of Soul, the heritage of the firstborn among men?

The way of error is awful to contemplate. The illusion of sin is without hope or God. If man's spiritual gravitation and attraction to one Father, “in whom all live, move, and have their being,” should be lost, and man should be governed by person instead of Principle, by body instead of Soul, he would be annihilated. Created by flesh instead of by Spirit, starting from humanity instead of from God, man would be governed by man.

The blind leading the blind, both would fall. The pleasure of passion and appetite must end in pain. It is of “few days, and full of trouble.” Its supposed joys