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538 reply to all error, — to sin, sickness, and death: “Dust [nothingness] thou art, and unto dust [nothingness] shalt thou return.”

“As in Adam [error] all die, even so in Christ [Truth] shall all be made alive.” The mortality of

man is a myth, for man is immortal. The false belief that spirit is now submerged in matter, at some future time to be emancipated from it, — this belief alone is mortal. Spirit, God, never germinates, but is “the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.” If Spirit, God, creates error, that error must have existed in the Mind of God, and this dethrones the perfection of Deity.

Is Christian Science contradictory? Is the divine Principle of creation misstated? Has Mind no Science

to declare it, while matter is governed by unerring Intelligence? The mist which “went up from the earth” represents error as starting from an idea of truth on a material basis. It supposes God and man to be explainable only through the corporeal senses, although the material senses can take no cognizance of Spirit, or the spiritual idea.

Genesis and the Apocalypse seem more obscure than other portions of the Scripture, because they cannot possibly be interpreted from a material standpoint. To the discoverer of Christian Science they are transparent, for they contain the deep divinity of the Bible.

Christian Science is dawning upon a material age. The great spiritual facts of Being, like rays of light,

shine in the darkness; though the darkness. comprehending them not, may deny their reality. The proof that the system herein stated is