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24 with God, its Principle, — a Science which, understood and demonstrated, would destroy all discord, — since you admit that God is omnipotent; for from this premise it follows that Good, and its sweet concords, have all-power.

Christian Science, properly understood, would disabuse the human mind of material beliefs that war

against spiritual Truth; and these must be denied and cast out, to make place for Truth. You cannot add to the contents of a vessel already full. Laboring long to shake the adult's faith in matter, and inculcate a grain of faith in God, — an inkling of the ability of Spirit to make the body harmonious, — the author has remembered often our Master's love for little children, and understood how truly such as they belong to the heavenly kingdom.

If thought is startled at the strong claim of Science for the supremacy of God, or Good, and doubts it, ought

we not, contrariwise, to be astounded at the vigorous claims of cvil, and doubt them, and no longer think it natural to love sin, and unnatural to forsake it, — no longer imagine evil to be ever-present, and Good absent? Truth should not seem as surprising and unnatural as error, and error should not seem as real as Truth. There is no error in Science, and our lives must be governed by Science, in order to be in harmony with God, the divine Principle of all Being.

When once reversed by Divine Science, the evidence before the corporeal senses disappears. Hence the opposition of sensuous man to the Science of

Soul, and the signiicance of the Scripture, “The carnal mind is enmity against God.” The