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Rh latter days. Nothing is more antagonistic to Christian Science than belief without understanding, for it blinds us to Truth, and builds on error.

Miracles are impossible in Science, and here it takes issue with popular religions. The highest manifestation

of Life, or Truth, is from the divine nature, and is not supernatural, since Science is an explication of nature. The belief that the universe, including man, is governed in general by material laws, but that occasionally Spirit sets aside these laws, — this belief belittles omnipotent Wisdom, and gives to matter the precedence over Spirit.

It is contrary to Christian Science to suppose that life is either material or organically spiritual. Between

Christian Science and all forms of superstition a great gulf is fixed, as impassable as that between Dives and Lazarus. There is mortal mind-reading and immortal Mind-reading. The latter is a revelation of divine purpose, through the understanding, by which we gain the Principle and explanation of all things. These are distinctly opposite standpoints, whence cause and effect are interpreted. The act of reading mortal mind investigates and influences human beliefs only. Science is co-ordinate neither with the premises nor conclusions of human belief.

The ancient prophets gained their foresight from a spiritual, incorporeal standpoint; but men foreshadow

evil, and mistake fact for fiction, when they predict the future from a groundwork of corporeality and human belief. When sufficiently advanced in Science to be in harmony with the Truth of Being, men become seers and prophets involuntarily, controlled not