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286 mind, is to drop from the platform of common manhood into the very mire of iniquity. To work against the free course of honesty and humility, is to push vainly against the current running Heavenward.

Like our nation, Christian Science has its Declaration of Independence. God has endowed man with inalienable

rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed, only when he is guided by no other mind than his Maker's.

Man's rights are invaded when this divine order is interfered with. The mental trespasser necessarily incurs the divine penalty due to this crime.

Let this age, which sits in judgment on Christian Science, sanction only such methods as are demonstrable

in Truth, and classify all others as did Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians, when he wrote as follows: