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Rh the sick, it casts out evils; and when it casts out the evil called disease, it heals the sick. When Christ

cast out the devil of dumbness, or dumb devil (to use the Gospel phrase), the dumb spake. There is to-day danger of repeating the offence of the Jews, by limiting the Holy One of Israel, and asking: “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?” What cannot God do?

It has been said, and truly, that Christianity must be Science, and Science must be Christianity, else one

or the other is false and useless; but neither is unimportant or untrue, and they are alike in demonstration; and this proves the one to be identical with the other. Christianity, as Jesus taught it, was not a creed, or a system of ceremonies, or a special gift from a ritualistic Jehovah; but it was the demonstration of divine Principle, casting out error and healing the sick, not merely in the name of Christ, or Truth, but in demonstration thereof, as it must be in the cycles of divine light.

Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He

taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and sinful. He claimed no intelligence, action, or life separate from God. Despite the persecution this brought upon him, he used his divine power to save men, both bodily and spiritually.

The question then, as now, was, How did Jesus heal the sick? His answer to this question the world rejected. He appealed to his students: “Who do men