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34 and love Him uncerstandingly, warring no more over the corporeality, but rejoicing in the affluence of our God. Religion will then be of the heart, and not of the head. Theology will no longer be tyrannical and proscriptive, from lack of love, — straining out gnats and swallowing camels.

We worship spiritually, only as we cease to worship materially. Spiritual devoutness is the soul of

Christianity. Worshipping through the medium of matter is Paganism. Judaic and other rituals are but types and shadows of true worship. “The true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth.”

The Jewish tribal Jehovah was a man-projected God, liable to wrath, repentance, and human changeableness.

The Christian Science God is universal, eternal divine Love, which changeth not, and sendeth no evil and no sin upon man. It is indeed mournfully true that the elder Scripture is reversed. In the beginning God created man in His, God's, image; but mortals would procreate man, and make God in their human image. What are the gods of mortals, but themselves infinitely magnified?

This indicates the distance between the theological and ritualistic religion of other ages, and the Science

preached by Jesus. More than profession is requisite for Christian demonstration. Few understand or will adhere to Jesus' divine precepts for healing. Why? Because his precepts require the disciple to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye, — that is, to set aside even the most cherished beliefs and practices.