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Rh To the physical senses, the strict demands of Christian

Science seem peremptory; but mortals are hastening to learn that Life is God, or Good, and that evil has rightly neither place nor power in the human or divine economy.

Fear of punishment never made man truly honest. Moral courage is requisite to meet the wrong and

proclaim the right. But how shall we reform the man who has more animal than moral courage, who has lost the true idea of Soul? Through silent argument, convince the mortal of his mistake in seeking such means for procuring happiness. Perhaps reason is the most active human faculty. Let that inform the sentiments, and awaken the man's dormant sense of moral obligation; and by degrees he will learn the nothingness of the pleasures of human sense, and the grandeur and bliss of a diviner sense, superior to matter. Then he not only will be saved, but is saved.

Mortals suppose they can live without goodness, when God is Good, the only real Life. What is the result?

Understanding little about the divine Principle which saves and heals, mortals get rid of sin, sickness, and death only in appearance. These errors are not thus really destroyed, and must therefore cling to mortals until, here or hereafter, they gain the true understanding of God, in the Science which destroys human delusions about Him, and reveals the grand realities of His supremacy.

This understanding of man's power, as equipped by God, has sadly disappeared from Christian

history. For centuries it has been dormant, a lost element of Christianity. Our missionaries carry