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20 has sought and interpreted in its own way the echo of

Spirit, and so repeated it materially; but the human mind never produced a real tone, or sent forth a positive sound.

The point at issue between Christian Science, on the one hand, and popular theology, on the other, is this:

Shall Science explain cause and effect as being both natural and spiritual? Or shall all that is beyond the cognizance of the material senses be called supernatural, and left to the mercy of speculative hypotheses?

I have set forth Christian Science, and its application to the treatment of disease, only as I have discovered

them. I have demonstrated the effects of Truth on the health, longevity, and morals of men, through Mind; and I have found nothing in ancient or in modern systems on which to found my own, except the teachings and demonstrations of our great Master, and the lives of prophets and apostles. The Bible has been my only textbook. I have had no other guide in “the strait and narrow way” of this Science.

If Christendom resists the author's application of the term Science to Christianity, or questions her use of it,

she will not therefore lose faith in Christianity, nor will Christianity lose its hold upon her. If God, the All-in-all, be the creator of the spiritual universe, including man, then everything entitled to a classification as Truth, or Science, must be comprised in a knowledge, or understanding of God; for there can be nothing beyond illimitable divinity.

The terms Divine Science, Spiritual Science, Science of Being, Christian Science, or Science alone, she employs interchangeably, according to the requirements of