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36 If the soft palm, upturned to a lordly salary, and architectural skill, making dome and spire tremulous with

beauty, turn the poor and stranger from the gate, they also shut the door on progress. In vain do the manger and cross tell their story to pride and fustian. Sensuality palsies the right hand, and causes the left to let go its divine grasp.

As in Jesus' days, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the Temple, and humility and Divine Science to be

welcomed in. The strong cords of Scientific demonstration, twisted by Jesus, are still needed, to purge the temples of their vain traffic in worldly policy, and make them meet dwelling-places for Truth.

Which was first. Mind or medicine? If Mind was first, and self-existent, then Mind, not matter, must

have been the first medicine. Mind being All, it made medicine; but that medicine was Mind. It could not have been that which departs from the nature and action of Mind, for Truth is God's remedy for error of every sort.

It is plain that God does not employ drugs or hygiene, or provide them for human use; else Jesus also would

have recommended and employed them in his healing. The sick are more deplorably lost than the sinful, if the sick cannot rely on God for help, and the sinful can. The divine Mind never called matter medicine; and matter required a material and human belief, before it could be considered as medicine.