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Rh The Science of Mind disposes of all evil. Truth, God, is not the father of error. Sin, sickness, and death are

to be classified as effects of error. Christ came to save sinners. The God-principle is omnipresent and omnipotent. He is everywhere, and nothing else is present or has power. Christ is the idea of Truth, and this idea comes to heal sickness and sin, through Christian Science, which denies corporeal power. Jesus is the name of the man who has presented, more than all other men, this idea of God, for he came healing the sick and the sinful, and destroying the power of death. Jesus is the human man, and Christ is divine; hence the duality of Jesus the Christ.

In an age of ecclesiastical despotism, Jesus introduced the teaching and practice of Christianity, affording proof

of its Truth and Love; but to reach his example, — and test its unerring Science according to his rule, by healing sickness, sin, and death, — a better understanding of God is required, as being the divine Principle, Love, rather than the personality of the man Jesus.

Jesus established what he said by demonstration, thus making his acts of higher importance than his words.

He demonstrated what he taught. This is the Science of Christianity. Jesus proved the Principle to be divine, which heals the sick and casts out error. Few however, except his students, understood in the least his teachings, and their glorious proofs, — namely, that Life, Truth, and Love (the Principle of this unacknowledged Science) destroy all error, evil, disease, and death.

The reception accorded to Truth in the early