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290 It is objected to Christian Science that it claims God as the only absolute Life and Soul, and man to be His

idea. It should be added that this is claimed to represent the normal, healthful, and sinless condition of man in Science; and that this claim is made because the Scriptures say that God has created man in His own image and after His likeness. Is it too bold to assume that God's likeness is not found in matter, sin, sickness, and death?

Were it more fully understood that Truth alone heals the sickness which is caused by error, the opponents of

a demonstrable Science would perhaps mercifully withhold their misrepresentations; and until the opponents of Christian Science test its efficacy, according to rules which disclose its merits or demerits, would it not be fair to observe the Scriptural precept against uncharitable judgment?

There are various methods of treating disease, which are not included in the commonly accepted systems;

but there is only one which should be presented to the whole world, and that is the Christian Science which Jesus preached and practised, and left us as his rich legacy.

Why should one refuse to investigate this method of treating disease? Why support the popular systems of medicine, when the physician may be perchance an infidel, and loses ninety-and-nine patients while Christian Science cures its hundred? Is it because allopathy and homoeopathy are more fashionable and less spiritual? In the Bible the word Spirit is so commonly applied to Deity, that Spirit and God are often regarded as