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Rh Life is deathless. Life is the origin and ultimate of man, never attainable through death, but gained by walking

in the footsteps of Truth, both before and after that which is called death. There is more Christianity in seeing and hearing spiritually than materially; There is more Science in the perpetual exercise of the Mind-faculties than in their loss. Lost they cannot be, while Mind remains. The apprehension of this gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf centuries ago, and will repeat the wonder.

Question. — You speak of belief. Who or what is it that believes?

Answer. — Spirit understands, and thus precludes the need of believing. Matter cannot believe, but Mind

understands. The body cannot believe. The believer and belief are one, and are mortal mind. Christian evidence is founded on Science, or demonstrable Truth, flowing from immortal Mind; and there is really no such thing as mortal mind. Mere belief is blindness, without Principle wherefrom to explain the reason of its hope. The belief is erroneous, that life is sentient and intelligent matter.

The Apostle James said, “Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.” The understanding that Life is God lengthens our days by strengthening our trust in the deathless reality of Life, its almightiness and immortality.

This faith relies upon an understood Principle. This Principle makes whole the diseased, and

brings out the enduring and harmonious phases of things. The result of our teachings is their