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358 Is the woodman's axe, which destroys a tree's so-called life, superior to omnipotence? Can a leaden bullet

deprive a man of Life, — that is, of God, who is man's Life? If God is at the mercy of matter, then matter is omnipotent. Such doctrines are “confusion worse confounded.” If two statements directly contradict each other and one is true, the other must be false. Is Science thus contradictory?

Christian Science, understood, coincides with the Scriptures, and sustains logically and demonstratively

every point it presents. Otherwise it would not be Science, and could not present its proofs. Christian Science is neither made up of contradictory aphorisms nor of the inventions of those who scoff at God. It presents the calm and clear verdict of Truth against error, uttered and illustrated by the prophets, by Jesus, by his apostles, as is recorded throughout the Scriptures.

Why are the words of Jesus more frequently cited for our instruction than are his remarkable works? Is it not because there are few who have gained a true knowledge of the great import to Christianity of those works?

Sometimes it is said: “Rest assured that whatever effect Christian Scientists may have on the sick, comes

through rousing within the sick a belief that in the removal of disease these healers have wonderful power, derived from the Holy Ghost.” Is it likely that church-members have more faith in some Christian Scientist, whom they have perhaps never seen and against whom they have been warned, than they have in their own accredited and orthodox