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Rh of any sort. Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power.

These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law demands of us only what we can certainly fulfil.

In the midst of imperfection, perfection is seen and acknowledged only by degrees. The ages must slowly

work up to perfection. How long it must be before we arrive at the demonstration of scientific being, no man knoweth, — not even “the Son but the Father;” but the false claim of error continues its delusions until the goal of goodness is assiduously earned and won.

Already the shadow of His right hand rests upon the hour. Ye who can discern the face of the sky, — the

sign material, — how much more should ye discern the sign mental, and compass the destruction of sin and sickness by overcoming the thoughts which produce them, and by understanding the spiritual idea which corrects and destroys them. To reveal this truth was our Master's mission to all mankind, including the hearts which rejected him.

When numbers have been divided according to a fixed rule, the quotient is not more unquestionable than the

scientific tests I have made of the effects of truth upon the sick. The counter fact relative to any disease is required to cure it. The utterance is designed to rebuke and destroy error. Why so should truth not be efficient in sickness, which is solely the result of inharmony?