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Rh of the latter as real or true, either in the form of sickness or sin? You admit that Truth is Life, and that Life is the omnipotent God; and certainly omnipotent Truth should destroy error.

The age has not wholly outlived the sense of ghostly beliefs. It still holds them, more or less. Time has not

yet reached eternity, immortality, complete reality. All the real is eternal, Perfection underlies reality. Without it, nothing is real. All things will continue to disappear, until perfection appears and reality is reached. We must give up the spectral at all points. We must not continue to admit the somethingness of superstition, but yield up all belief in it and be wise. When we learn that discord is not immortal harmony, we shall be ready for progress, “forgetting those things which are behind.”

The grave does not banish the ghost of materiality. So long as there are supposed limits to mind, and those limits are human, so long will ghosts continue. Mind is limitless. It never was material. The true idea of Being is spiritual and immortal; and from this it follows that whatever is laid off is the ghost of some unseen reality. Our material beliefs can neither demonstrate Christianity, nor apprehend the reality of Being.

Are the protests of Christian Science, against the notion that there can be material life, substance, or mind,

“utter falsities and absurdities,” as some aver? Why then do Christians try to obey the Scriptures, and war against “the world, the flesh, and the Devil”? Why invoke the divine aid to enable them to leave all for Christ, Spirit? Why do they use