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Rh Did Jesus understand the economy of man less than Graham or Cutter? Christian ideas certainly embrace — what human theories exclude — the Principle or man's harmony, the text, “Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die,” not only contradicts human systems, but points to the self-sustaining and eternal Truth.

The demands of Truth are spiritual, and reach the body through Mind. The best interpreter of man's needs said: “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink.”

If there are material laws which prevent disease, what then causes it? Not divine law, for Christ healed the sick and cast out error, always in opposition, never in obedience, to physics.

Causation is the one question to be considered, for more than all others it relates to human

progress. The age seems ready to approach this subject, to ponder somewhat the supremacy of Spirit, and at least touch the hem of its garment.

The description of man as purely physical, or as both material and spiritual, — but in either case dependent on his physical organization, — is the Pandora box, from which many evils have gone forth, especially despair. Matter, which takes divine power into its own hands, and claims to be a creator, is a fiction, in which debauchery becomes attuned to such fascination that mankind has caught its moral contagion.

Through discernment of the spiritual opposite of materiality, even the way through Christ, Truth,

man will reopen, with the key of Science, the gates of Paradise which human beliefs have closed, and