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288 cannot overthrow it. Saint Paul alludes to “doubtful disputations.” The hour has struck when proof and demonstration, instead of opinion and dogma, are summoned to the support of Christianity, “making wise the simple.”

In unqualified condemnations of Scientific Mind-healing, one may see with sorrow the sad effects on the sick

of denying Truth. He that decries this Science, does it presumptuously, in the face of Bible history, and in defiance of the direct command of Jesus, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel;” to which command was added the promise that his students should cast out evils and heal the sick. He bade the seventy disciples, as well as the twelve, heal the sick in any town where they should be hospitably received.

If Christianity is not Scientific, and Science is not Christian, then there is no invariable rule of right, and

Truth becomes an accident. Shall it be denied that a system which works according to the Scriptures has Scriptural authority?

Christian Science awakens the sinner, reclaims the infidel, and raises from the couch of pain the helpless

invalid. It speaks to the dumb the words of Truth, and they answer with rejoicing. It causes the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and the blind to see. Who would be the first to disown the argument of good works, when our Master says, “By their fruits ye shall know them”?

If Christian Scientists were teaching or practising pharmacy or obstetrics according to the common theories, no denunciations would follow them, even if such