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468 The way which leads to Christian Science is strait and narrow. God has set his signet to this Science,

making it co-ordinate with all that is real, which is harmonious and eternal. Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God, or belong to His government. His law, rightly understood, destroys them. Jesus furnished proofs of these statements.

Question. — What is error?

Answer. — Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain — that intelligence, substance, life — are existent

in matter. Error is neither Mind, nor one of its faculties. Mind is Truth. Error is its opposite, a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue, — that which seemeth to be, and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and through this we should still lose the standard of Truth.

Question. — Is there no sin?

Answer.— All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He created was good,

and He made all that was made. Therefore the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not true, because He is Truth, and they are not of Him. We learn, in Christian Science, that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is erroneous; and error is illusion, possessing neither reality nor identity, though seeming to be real, and identical with Truth.