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150 those who have confirmed themselves in the appropriation of them. The rejection of evils by a denial of them in the thought, is no rejection nor removal of them; but the acknowledgment that they are from hell and the repudiation of them as belonging to evil spirits, is both a rejection and removal of them, for then the Lord's redeeming power operates by the Word to remove the evil spirits and thus the source and inspiration of the evils. This is Christianity; and known and embraced in the will, and practiced in the day's life, faithfully to the end, it is a Christian Science indeed, omnipotent for eternal life, and for the organic removal of disorder by successive processes of actual life, and the promotion of health in natural life also. The formula of its practice is laid down by Swedenborg as follows in the Doctrine of Life: