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Rh The opposite of Truth, — named error, — the opposite of Science, and the evidence before the five corporeal

senses, afford no evidence of the grand facts of Being; even as these so-called senses receive no intimation of the earth's motions or the science of astronomy, but yield assent thereto on the basis of natural science.

Thus should the facts of Divine Science be admitted, although the evidence thereof is not supported by evil, by matter, or by material sense; because it is fully sustained by spiritual sense, Divine Science, the evidence of God's and man's co-existence, God is all-powerful and ever-present. Therefore there is no other power or presence, and the spirituality of the universe, including man, is the only fact of creation. “Let God be true, and every [material] man a liar.”

Question. — Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man?

Answer. — The author subscribed to an Orthodox creed in early youth, and tried to adhere to it, until she

caught the first gleam of that which interprets God as above mortal view. This sense rebuked human beliefs, and gave the spiritual import of all things from the divine Mind, expressed through Science. Since then her highest creed has been Divine Science, which, reduced to human apprehension, she has named Christian Science. This Science teaches man that God is the only Life, and this Life is Truth and Love; that God is to be adored, understood, and demonstrated; that divine Truth casts out human error and heals the sick.