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434 condemned. Thereupon Judge Medicine sat in judgment on the case, and substantially charged the jury, twelve Mortal Minds, to find the prisoner Guilty. His Honor sentenced Mortal Man to die for those very deeds which the divine law compels him to commit. Thus the court of error construed obedience to the law of divine Love as disobedience to the law of Life. Claiming to protect a Mortal Man in right-doing, that court pronounced a sentence of death for doing right.

One of the principal witnesses, Nerve, testified that he was a ruler of Body, in which province Mortal Man resides. He also

testified that he was on intimate terms with the plaintiff, and knew Personal Sense to be truthful; that he knew Man, and he was made in the image of God, but was a criminal. This is a foul aspersion on man's Maker. It blots the fair escutcheon of Intelligence. It indicates malice aforethought, a determination to condemn Man, in the interest of Personal Sense. At the bar of Truth, in the presence of divine Justice, before the Judge of our higher tribunal, the Supreme Court of Spirit, and before its jurors, the Spiritual Senses, I proclaim this witness, Nerve, to be destitute of Intelligence and Truth, and bearing false testimony.

Man self-destroyed; the testimony of matter respected; Spirit not allowed a hearing; Soul a slave, though recommended

to mercy; the helpless innocent body tortured, — these are the terrible records of your Material Court of Common Errors, and I ask that the higher Court of Spirit reverse this decision.

Here the opposite counsel, Belief, called Christian Science to order, for contempt of court. Various notables

— Materia Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Scholastic Theology, and Jurisprudence — rose to the question of expelling Christian Science from the bar, for such high-handed illegality. He was