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Rh Paul says, in his Epistle to the Romans: “The carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. And then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye arc not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.”

There will hereafter be greater mental opposition to the spiritual and Scientific meaning of the Scriptures,

than has ever been before, since the Christian era began. The serpent, material sense, will bruise the heel of the woman, will struggle to destroy the spiritual idea of Love; and the woman, this idea, will bruise his head. The spiritual idea has given the understanding a foothold in Christian Science. The seed of Truth and the seed of error, of belief and of understanding, — yea, the seed of Spirit and the seed of matter, — are the wheat and tares which time will separate, the one to be burned, the other to be garnered into heavenly places.

Divine Science deals its chief blow at the supposed material foundations of life and intelligence. It dooms

idolatry. A belief in other gods, other creators, and other creations, must go down before Christian Science. It unveils the results of sin, as shown in sickness and death. When will man pass through the open gate of Christian Science, into the Heaven of Soul, the heritage of the firstborn among men? Truth is indeed the Way.