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Rh that Jesus introduced was not a creed or an observance. nor a special gift from a personal Jehovah; but it was the demonstration of a Divine Principle, casting out error and healing the sick, not merely in the name of Christ, or Truth, but in demonstration thereof.

The uselessness of drugs, the emptiness of knowledge, the nothingness of matter and its imaginary laws, are apparent as we rise from the rubbish of belief to the acquisition and demonstration of spiritual understanding. In the silent sanctuary of Soul are voices of solemn import, but we heed them not. When the supposed pleasures and pains of sense pass away, that is a sign of the burial of error and the resurrection to spiritual understanding.

Anciently the followers of Christ, or Truth, measured Christianity by its power over sickness, sin, and death; but modern religions omit all but one of these claims, — the power over sin. We must seek the undivided garment, the whole of Christianity, as our first proof of Science, for that alone gives it. This limited volume can do but little justice to so mighty a theme, for systematic teaching, and the student's own experience in practice, are requisite for its comprehension. Some individuals assimilate Truth more rapidly than others; but I never graduated a single student (obedient to my directions) who did not heal the sick, and add continually to his store of understanding and success.

If the student goes away to practise those teachings only in part, dividing his interests between God and Mammon, and substituting his own views for mine, he will reap what he has sown, and perhaps call me a