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128 Many theories, relative to God and man, neither make man harmonious nor God lovable. The beliefs we

commonly entertain about happiness and life afford no scathless and permanent evidence of either. Security for the claims of harmonious and eternal Being is found only in Divine Science.

Scripture informs us that “with God all things are possible,” all good is possible to Spirit, — but our prevalent theories practically deny this, and make healing possible only through matter. These theories may be false, but the Scripture is true. Christianity is not untrue; but religions which contradict its Principle are false. In our age Christianity again demonstrates the power of divine Principle, as it did eighteen hundred years ago, by healing the sick and triumphing over death. Jesus never taught that drugs, food, air, and exercise could make a man healthy, or that they could destroy human life; nor did he illustrate these errors by his practice. He referred man's harmony to Mind, not matter, and never tried to make of none effect the sentence of God, which sealed His condemnation of sin, sickness, and death.

In the sacred sanctuary of Truth are voices of solemn import, but we heed them not. It is only when the supposed

pleasures and pains of sense pass away in our lives, that we find unquestionable signs of the burial of error and the resurrection to spiritual Life.

There is no place or opportunity in Science for error

of any sort. Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs, rather than professions, of Christian power. These proofs consist