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Rh The finger-posts of Divine Science show the way our Master trod, and require of Christians the proof which he gave, instead of mere profession. We may hide spiritual ignorance from the world, but can never succeed in the Science and demonstration of spiritual Life through ignorance or hypocrisy.

The Divine Principle which made harmless the poisonous viper, which delivered men from the boiling oil,

from the fiery furnace, from the jaws of the lion, can heal the sick in every age, and triumph over sin and death. It crowned the demonstrations of Jesus with unsurpassed power and Truth. But the same “Mind which was also in Christ Jesus” must always accompany the letter of Science, in order to confirm and repeat the ancient demonstrations of prophets and apostles. That those wonders are not more commonly repeated to-day, arises not so much from lack of desire as from lack of spiritual growth.

The clay cannot reply to the potter. The head, heart, lungs, and limbs do not inform us that they are dizzy, diseased, consumptive, or lame. If this information is conveyed, mortal mind has conveyed it. Neither immortal and unerring Mind, nor matter, — the inanimate substratum of mortal mind, — can carry on such telegraphy; for God is “of purer eyes than to behold evil,” and matter has neither intelligence nor sensation.

Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no sense of hatred, and Life has no partnership

with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God.