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Rh was, that I as a Christian Scientist believed in the Holy Spirit, while the patients did not.

Because the evidence of the existence of Spirit, or Soul, is palpable to spiritual sense only, and not apparent

to the material senses, which only cognize the unrealities of existence, — though you aver that these senses are indispensable to man's existence or entity, — you must change the human concept of yourself as matter disappears, and at length know yourself spiritually.

True Christianity is to be honored wherever found; but when shall we arrive at the goal that word implies?

From Puritan parents, the discoverer of Christian Science early received her religious education. In childhood she often listened with joy to these words, falling from the lips of her sainted mother: “God is able to raise you up from sickness;” and she pondered the meaning of that Scripture she so often quotes: “And these signs shall follow them that believe;. . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

A Christian Scientist and an opponent are like two artists. One says: “I have spiritual mind-pictures,

indestructible and glorious. When others see them as I do, in their true light and loveliness, — and know that these pictures are real and eternal, because drawn from Truth, — they will find that nothing is lost, and all is won, by a right estimate of what is real.”

The other artist replies: “You wrong my experience. I have no mind-pictures except those which are material. It is true that materiality renders my pictures imperfect and destructible; yet I would not exchange mine for