Page:Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1898).djvu/501

Rh Truth, the answer is Yes; but not otherwise. Material sense is an absurd phrase, for matter has no sensation.

Science declares that Mind sees, hears, feels, speaks, and not matter. Whatever contradicts this statement is the false sense, which ever betrays mortals into sickness, sin, and death. If the unimportant and evil appear, only soon to disappear, because of their uselessness or their iniquity, then these ephemeral views of error ought to be obliterated by Truth. Why oppose Christian Science, which instructs mortals how to make sin, disease, and death appear more and more unreal?

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come

naturally into Spirit, through better health and morals, and as the result of spiritual growth, Not death, but the understanding of Life, makes man immortal. The belief that life can be in matter, or soul in body, and that man springs from dust or from an egg, is the result of the mortal error which Christ, or Truth, destroys, by fulfilling the spiritual law of Being; wherein man is perfect, even as the “Father which is in Heaven is perfect.” If thought yields its dominion to other powers, it cannot outline in the body its own beautiful images, but effaces them, and delineates foreign agents, called disease and sin.

The heathen gods of mythology controlled war and agriculture as much as nerves control sensation, or muscles

measure strength. To say that strength can be in matter, is like saying the power can be in the lever. The notion of any life or intelligence in matter is without foundation in fact, and you can