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Rh God is the Principle of Christian Science. As there is but one God, there can be but one Principle in this

Science; and there must be fixed rules for the demonstration of this divine Principle. The letter of Science plentifully reaches humanity to-day, but its Spirit comes only in small degrees. The vital part, the heart and Soul of Christian Science, is Love. Without this, the letter is but its dead body, — pulseless, cold, inanimate.

The fundamental propositions of Christian Science are summarized in the four following, to me, self-evident propositions. Even if read backward, these propositions will be found to agree in statement and proof.

1. God is All in all.

2. God is good. Good is Mind.

3. God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter.

4. Life, God, omnipotent Good, deny death, evil, sin, disease. — Disease, sin, evil, death, deny Good, omnipotent God, Life.

Which of the denials in Proposition Four is true? Both are not, cannot be true. According to the Scripture, I find that God is true, “and every [mortal] man a liar.”

The metaphysics of Christian Science, like the rules of mathematics, prove the rule by inversion. For example: there is no pain in Truth, and no truth in pain; no nerve in Mind, and no mind in nerve; no matter in Mind, and no mind in matter; no matter in Life, and no life in matter; no matter in Good, and no good in matter.

Usage classes both evil and good together as mind;