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Rh and its Science must be apprehended by as many as believe on Him, — that is, understand Truth.

No analogy exists between the vague hypotheses of Agnosticism, Pantheism, Theosophy, Spiritualism, or

Millenarianism, and the demonstrable truths of Christian Science; and I find the will, or sensuous reason of the human mind to be opposed to the divine Mind, expressed through Divine Science.

Christian Science is natural, but not physical. The true Science of God and man is no more supernatural

than is the science of numbers; though departing from the realm of the physical, as it must, some may deny its right to the name of Science. The Principle of Divine Metaphysics is God; its practice is the power of Truth over error; its rules demonstrate Science. It reverses all perverted and physical hypotheses concerning Deity, even as the science of optics rejects, while it explains, the incidental or inverted image, and shows what this inverted image is meant to represent.

A prize of one hundred pounds has been offered in Oxford University, England, for the best essay on Natural

Science, — an essay calculated to offset the tendency of the age to attribute physical effects to physical causes, rather than to a final spiritual cause. This fact is one of many which show that Christian Science meets a yearning of the human race for spirituality.

After a careful examination of my discovery, and its demonstration in healing the sick, this fact became evident to me, — that Mind governs the body, not partially, but wholly. I submitted my metaphysical system of treating disease to the broadest