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Rh Christianly Scientific resides in the good it accomplishes; for it cures on a demonstrable Principle, which all may understand.

If mathematics presents a thousand different examples of one principle, the proving of one example authenticates

all the others. A simple statement of Christian Science, if demonstrated by healing, contains the proof of all here said of it. If one of the statements in this book is true, every one must be true, for not one departs from its system and rule. You can prove for yourself, dear reader, the Science of Healing, and so ascertain if the author has given you the correct interpretation of Scripture.

The late Louis Agassiz, by his microscopic examinations of a vulture's ovum, strengthened the author's

conclusions as to the Scientific theory of creation. He was able to see in the egg the earth's atmosphere, the gathering clouds, the moon and stars, while the germinating speck of embryotic life seemed a small sun. Darwin's theory of evolution, from a material basis, is more consistent than most theories in its history of mortality. Briefly, this is Darwin's theory, — that Mind produces its opposite, matter, with power to recreate the universe, including man. Material evolution implies that the Great First Cause must become material, and afterwards must either return again to Mind, or go down into dust and nothingness.

The Scriptures are very sacred. Our aim must be to have them understood spiritually, for thus only can Truth be

gained. The true theory of the universe, including man, is not in material history, but in spiritual development. Inspired thought relinquishes a