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Rh have them understood spiritually, for thus only can Truth be gained. The true theory of man and the universe is not in material history but in spiritual development. Inspired thought relinquishes a material, sensual, and mortal theory of the universe and man, and adopts the spiritual and immortal.

It is this perception of Scripture that lifted me out of disease and death, and inspires my writings. At the threshold of the grave I saw the falsity of a belief in intelligent matter. I heard “the Spirit and the bride say, Come; whosoever will, let him drink of the waters of Life freely.” Humbly and fervently I throw in my lot with Divine Science; for it separates error from Truth, and breathes through the sacred pages the spiritual sense of Life, Substance, and Intelligence. In this Science I discover man in the image and likeness of God. I see that man has never lost his spiritual estate and his eternal harmony.

How little light or heat reach our earth when clouds cover the sun's face. So Christian Science can be seen only as the clouds of sense roll away, and it gives little joy and light to mortals before Life is spiritually learned. Every agony of mortal error helps to destroy itself, and so aids the apprehension of immortal Truth. This is the new birth going on hourly, whereby men may enter the true idea of God, or the spiritual sense of being.

Treating of the origin of mortals, Professor Agassiz said, “It is very possible that many general statements current now, about birth and generation, will be changed with the progress of information.” Had the great naturalist, through his tireless researches, gained the diviner side of Science, — so far apart from his material sense of