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Rh heals the sick and causes the wicked to “forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.” It was our Master's theology which the impious sought to destroy.

From beginning to end, the Scriptures are full of accounts of the triumph of Spirit, Mind, over matter. Moses proved the power of Mind by what men called miracles; so did Joshua, Elijah, and Elisha. The Christian era was ushered in with signs and wonders. Reforms have commonly been attended with bloodshed and persecution, even when the end has been brightness and peace; but the present new, yet old, reform in religious faith will teach men patiently and wisely to stem the tide of sectarian bitterness, whenever it flows inward.

The decisions by vote of Church Councils as to what should and should not be considered Holy Writ; the

manifest mistakes in the ancient versions; the thirty thousand different readings in the Old Testament, and the three hundred thousand in the New, — these facts show how a mortal and material sense stole into the divine record, with its own hue darkening to some extent the inspired pages. But mistakes could neither wholly obscure the divine Science of the Scriptures seen from Genesis to Revelation, mar the demonstration of Jesus, nor annul the healing by the prophets, who foresaw that “the stone which the builders rejected” would become “the head of the corner.”

Atheism, pantheism, theosophy, and agnosticism are opposed to Christian Science, as they are to ordinary

religion; but it does not follow that the profane or atheistic invalid cannot be healed by Christian Science. The moral condition of such a man