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Rh When you say “Man's body is matter,” I say with Paul, “Be willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.” Yield your belief of Mind in matter, and have but one Mind, even God.

Medicine may inform you that Paul's Christianity, that regards Mind scientifically as separate from matter, indicates an unnatural state, or catalepsy; and it may further instruct you as to the dangerous nature of this disorder, telling you how it ends in death. But turn to the inspired writers and you read: “If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death;” “Henceforth know we no man after the flesh.”

We must destroy the belief that Life and Intelligence are in matter, and plant ourselves upon what is pure and perfect. Paul said, “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” Sooner or later we shall learn that the fetters of man's finite, capacity are forged by the illusion that he lives in body instead of Soul, in matter rather than Spirit.

The possession of but one God, one Mind, unfolds the divine law of loving thy neighbor as thyself. Selfishness hinders man's natural drift towards God, and conveys thought in selfish channels, where opposite and contending interests sway mankind. It tips the beam of being to the side of error, instead of Truth. This throws our weight into the scale of matter instead of Spirit.

In the scientific relation of God to man we find that one man's meat is not another's poison, but that what feeds one feeds all; as Jesus showed, with the loaves and fishes, when Spirit, not matter, was the source of supply.

How long it must be before we arrive at the demonstration of scientific being, no man knoweth, — not even