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Rh treatment resulted in the death of a patient. The people are taught, in such cases, to say Amen. Shall I then be smitten for teaching Truth as the Principle of healing, and proving my word by my deed? James said: “Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.”

Is not mortal mind ignorant of God's method? This makes it doubly unfair to impugn and misrepresent

the facts, although, without this cross-bearing, one might not be able to say, with the apostle, “None of these things move me.” The sick, the halt, and the blind look up to Christian Science with blessings, and Truth will not be forever hidden from the quickened sense of the people by unjust parody.

Jesus strips all disguise from error, when his teachings are fully understood. By parable and argument he

explains the impossibility of Good producing evil; and he also Scientifically demonstrates this great fact, proving, by what are wrongly called his miracles, that sin, sickness, and death are beliefs, illusive errors, which he could and did destroy.

It would sometimes seem as if Truth were rejected because meekness and spirituality are the conditions of its acceptance, while Christendom generally demands so much less.

Anciently those apostles who were Jesus' students — as well as Paul, who was not one of his students — healed

the sick and reformed the sinner by their religion. Alas for the error which allows words, rather than works, to follow such examples! Whoever, meekly and conscientiously, is the first to press along the line of Gospel-healing, is often accounted a heretic.