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Rh fruits, what will the harvest be, when this Science is more generally understood?

As Paul asked of the unfaithful in ancient days, so the rabbis of the present day ask concerning our healing

and teaching, “Through breaking the law, dishonorest thou God?” We have the gospel, however, and our Master annulled material law by healing contrary to it. We propose to follow the Master's example. We should subordinate material law to spiritual law. Two essential points of Christian Science are, that neither Life nor man dies, and that God is not the author of sickness.

The chief difficulty in conveying the teachings of divine Science accurately to human thought lies in this, that like

all other languages, English is inadequate to the expression of spiritual conceptions and propositions, because one is obliged to use material terms in dealing with spiritual ideas. The elucidation of Christian Science lies in its spiritual sense, and this sense must be gained by its disciples in order to grasp the meaning of this Science. Out of this condition grew the prophecy concerning the Christian apostles, “They shall speak with new tongues.”

Speaking of the things of Spirit while dwelling on a material plane, material terms must be generally employed. Mortal thought does not at once catch the higher meaning, and can do, so only as thought is educated up to spiritual apprehension. To a certain extent this is equally true of all learning, even that which is wholly material.

In Christian Science, substance is understood to be Spirit, while the opponents of Christian Science believe