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Rh and peace; but the present new, but yet old, reform in religious faith will teach men patiently and wisely to stem the tide of sectarian bitterness, whenever it flows inward.

The decisions, by vote of Church Councils, as to what should and should not be considered Holy Writ;

the manifest mistakes in the ancient versions; the thirty thousand different readings in the Old Testament, and the three hundred thousand in the New, — these facts show how a mortal and material sense stole into the divine record, darkening, to some extent, the inspired pages with its own hue. But mistakes could not wholly obscure the Science of the Scriptures, seen from Genesis to Revelation, or mar the demonstration of Jesus, and annul the healing of the prophets, who doubtless foresaw that “the stone which the builders rejected” would become “the head of the corner.”

Atheism, Pantheism, Theosophy, and Agnosticism are opposed to Christian Science, as they are to ordinary

religion; but it does not follow that the profane or atheistic invalid cannot be healed by Christian Science. The moral condition of such a man demands the remedy of Truth more than it is needed in most cases; hence Science is more than usually effectual in the treatment of moral ailments.

That God is a corporeal being nobody can truly affirm. The Bible represents Him as saying: “Thou canst not

see My face; for there shall no man see Me, and live.” We know Him only as divine Mind, as Life, Truth, and Love. We shall obey and adore, in proportion as we apprehend the divine nature,