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Rh As for sin and disease, Christian Science says, in the language of the Master, “Follow me; and let the dead

bury their dead.” Let discord of every name and nature be heard no more, and let the harmonious and true sense of Life, or Being, take possession of human consciousness.

What is the relative value of these two conflicting theories? One, according to the commands of our Master, heals the sick. The other, popular religion, denies that Christ's religion has exercised any healing power since the first century.

The statement that the teachings of Christian Science in this work are “absolutely false, and the most

egregious fallacies ever offered for acceptance,” is an opinion wholly due to a misapprehension both of the Principle and practice of Christian Science, and to a consequent inability to demonstrate that Science. Without this understanding, no one is capable of impartial or correct criticism; because demonstration and understanding are God's harmonious and immortal keynotes, proven to be such by our Master, by the sick who are cured, and by the sinful who are enlightened.

Strangely enough, we ask for material theories in support of spiritual and eternal truths, when the two

are so antagonistic that the material must disappear before the spiritual can be attained. This material existence affords no evidence of spiritual existence and immortality. Sin, sickness, and death do not prove man's entity or immortality. Discord can never establish the facts of harmony. Matter is not the vestibule of Spirit.

Jesus reasoned on this subject practically, and