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168 now, as aforetime, to learn and practise Christian healing. The Scriptures contain it. The spiritual import of

the Word imparts this power. But, as Paul says, “How shall they hear without a preacher; and how shall they preach, except they be sent?” If sent, how shall they preach, convert, and heal multitudes, except the rabbis are willing?

The spiritual sense of Truth is assimilated when the heart grows honest, unselfish, loving, and meek. In the

soil of an “honest and good heart” the seed must be sown; else it beareth not much fruit, for the swinish element in human hearts will uproot it. Jesus said: “Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures.” The spiritual sense of the Scripture brings out the Scientific sense, and is the “new tongue” referred to in the last chapter of Mark's Gospel.

Jesus' parable of the Sower shows the care of our Master not to impart to dull ears and gross hearts the spiritual teachings they could not accept. Reading their thoughts, he said: “Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine.”

It is in the spiritualization of thought and Christianization of daily life, in contrast with the results of the

ghastly farce of material existence, — of chastity and purity, in contrast with the downward tendencies and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity, — that the real attestation of the divine origin and operation of Science is to be found. Its triumphs are recorded in the destruction of error and evil, from which are propagated the dismal beliefs of sin, sickness, and death.