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Rh All revelation (such is the popular thought!) must come from the schools, and along the line of scholarly

and ecclesiastical descent, as kings are crowned from a royal dynasty. In healing the sick and sinful, Jesus elaborated the fact that it was the divine Principle, and Christ spirit, which governed the corporeal Jesus. For this Principle there is no dynasty, no ecclesiastical monopoly. Its only crowned head is immortal sovereignty. Its only priest is the spiritualized man. The Bible declares that all believers are “made kings and priests unto God.” The outsiders did not then, and do not now, understand this Principle of the Christ; therefore they cannot demonstrate God's healing power. Neither can this manifestation of Christ be understood, until its Principle is explained in Divine Science.

The adoption of Scientific religion and of metaphysical healing will ameliorate sin, sickness, and death. Let our

pulpits do justice to Christian Science. Let it have fair representation by the press. Give to Christian Science the place in our institutions of learning now occupied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will eradicate sickness and sin in less time than the old systems, devised for subduing these evils, have required for self-establishment and propagation.

Anciently the followers of Christ, or Truth, measured Christianity by its power over sickness, sin, and death;

but modern religionists omit all but one of these claims, — the power over sin. We must seek the undivided garment, the whole of Christianity as our first proof of Christian Science, for that alone can furnish us with absolute evidence.