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112 employed, to be the most effective curative agent in medical practice.

Is there more than one school of Christian Science? Christian Science is demonstrable. There can, therefore, be but one method in its teaching. Those who

depart from this method forfeit their claims to belong to its school, and they become adherents of the Socratic, the Platonic, the Spencerian, or some other school. By this is meant that they adopt and adhere to some particular system of human opinions. Although these opinions may have occasional gleams of divinity, borrowed from that truly divine Science which eschews man-made systems, they nevertheless remain wholly human in their origin and tendency and are not scientifically Christian.

From the infinite One in Christian Science comes one Principle and its infinite idea, and with this infinitude

come spiritual rules, laws, and their demonstration which, like the great Giver, are “the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever;” for thus are the divine Principle of healing and the Christ-idea characterized in the epistle to the Hebrews.

Any theory of Christian Science, which departs from what has already been stated and proved to be true,

affords no foundation upon which to establish a genuine school of this Science. Also, if any so-called new school claims to be Christian Science, and yet uses another author's discoveries without giving that author proper credit, such a school is erroneous, for it so inculcates a breach of that divine commandment in the Hebrew Decalogue, “Thou shalt not steal.”

God is the Principle of divine metaphysics. As there