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470 era, history now repeats. Whoever introduces the Science of Christianity will be scoffed at, and scourged

with worse cords than those which cut the flesh. To the ignorant age in which it first appears, Science seems a mistake. Hence the misinterpretation and consequent maltreatment which it receives. Christian marvels (and marvel is the simple meaning of the Greek word rendered miracle in the New Testament) will be misunderstood and misused by many, until the glorious Principle of these marvels is gained.

If sin, sickness, and death are as real as Good, Life, and Truth, then they must all be from the same

source, God being their author. Now Jesus came to destroy sin, sickness, and death; yet the Scriptures aver he “came not to destroy, but to fulfil.” Is it possible, then, to believe that the evils which he lived to destroy are real, or the offspring of the Divine will?

Despite the hallowing influence of Truth in the destruction of error, must error still be immortal? Truth

spares all that is true. If evil is real, Truth must make it so; but error, not Truth, is the author of the unreal, for the unreal vanishes, while all that is real is eternal. The apostle says that the mission of Christ was “to destroy the works of the Devil.” Truth destroys falsity and error, for light and darkness cannot dwell together. One inevitably extinguishes the other. When one appears, the other disappears. “God is too pure to behold iniquity.” To Truth there is no error; all is Truth. To Spirit there is no matter; all is Spirit, divine Principle and His idea.