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Rh make it “every whit whole.” Remember, brain is not mind. Matter cannot be sick, and Mind is immortal

harmony. Your mortal body is only a mortal belief of mind in matter. What you call matter was originally error in solution, or mortal mind. — likened, by Milton, to “chaos and old night.” One theory about this mortal mind is, that its sensations form blood, flesh, and bones. The Science of Being, wherein all is divine Mind, or God and His thought, would he clearer in this age, but for the belief that Mind can end in matter, or that mind can enter its own embodied thought, bind itself with its own beliefs, and then call its bonds material and divine law.

If man is absolutely governed by God, or Spirit, then man is not subject to matter, “neither indeed can be;”

and therefore man cannot suffer, neither can he infringe his Maker's spiritual law. Christian Science and Christianity are one. How then in Christian Science, any more than in Christianity, can we believe in the reality and power of both Truth and error, and hope to succeed with either? Error is not self-sustaining. Its false supports fail, one after another! It succeeds for a time, only by parading in the stolen vestments of Truth.

“Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in Heaven.” A

denial of Truth is fatal to Christian Science. A just acknowledgment of Truth, and what it has done for us, is an effectual help. If pride, superstition, or any error, prevent the honest recognition of benefits received, this will be a hindrance to the recovery of the sick and the success of the student.