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540 marvellous demonstrations. Christ is the offspring of Spirit, and spiritual existence shows that Spirit creates neither a wicked nor a mortal man, lapsing into sin, sickness, and death.

In Isaiah we read: “I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things;” but the prophet referred to

divine law as stirring up the belief in evil to its utmost, when bringing it to the surface and reducing it to its common denominator, nothingness. The muddy river-bed must be stirred in order to purify the stream. In moral chemicalization, when the symptoms of evil, illusion, are aggravated, we may think in our ignorance that the Lord hath wrought an evil; but we ought to know that God's law uncovers so-called sin and its effects, only that Truth may annihilate all sense of evil and all power to sin.

Science renders “unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's; and unto God the things that are God's.” It

saith to the human sense of sin, sickness, and death, “God never made you, and you are a false sense which hath no knowledge of God.” The purpose of the Hebrew allegory, representing error as assuming a divine character, is to teach mortals never to believe a lie.

Cain is the type of mortal and material man, conceived

in sin and “shapen in iniquity;” he is not the type of Truth and Love. Material in origin and sense, he brings a material offering to God. Abel