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Rh It is the general belief that the lower animals are less sickly than those possessing higher organizations,

especially those of the human form. This would indicate that there is less disease, in proportion as the force of mortal mind is less felt, and that health attends its absence. A fair conclusion from this might be, that it is the human belief, and not the divine arbitrament, which brings the physical organism under the yoke of disease.

An inquirer once said to the Discoverer of Christian Science: “I like your explanations about Truth, but I

do not comprehend what you say about error.” This is the nature of error. The mark of ignorance is on its forehead, for it neither understands nor can be understood. Error would have itself received as Mind, as if it were as real and God-created as divine Truth; but Christian Science attributes to error neither entity nor power, because error is neither Mind, nor the outcome of Mind.

Searching for the origin of man, who is the reflection of God, is like inquiring into the origin of God himself,

the self-existent and eternal. Only impotent error would seek to unite Spirit with matter, Good with evil, Immortality with mortality, and call this sham unity man; as if man were the offspring of both Mind and matter, of both Deity and humanity. Creation rests on a spiritual basis. We lose our standard of perfection, and set aside the proper conception of Deity, when we admit that the Perfect is the author of aught that can become imperfect, that God bestows the power of sinning, or that Truth confers the ability to err. Oar great example, Jesus, could restore the