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228 I call disease by its name and have cured it thus; so there is nothing new on this score. My book Science and Health names disease, and thousands are healed by learning that so-called disease is a sensation of mind, not of matter. Evil minds signally blunder in divine metaphysics; hence I am always saying the unexpected to them. The evil mind calls it “skulking,” when to me it is wisdom to “overcome evil with good.” I fail to know how one can be a Christian and yet depart from Christ's teachings.

Who shall be greatest? Referring to John the Baptist, of whom he said none greater had been born of women, our Master declared: “He that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” That is, he that hath the kingdom of heaven, the reign of holiness, in the least in his heart, shall be greatest.

Who shall inherit the earth? The meek, who sit at the feet of Truth, bathing the human understanding with tears of repentance and washing it clean from the taints of self-righteousness, hypocrisy, envy, — they shall inherit the earth, for “wisdom is justified of her children.”

“Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.”

Who shall be called to Pleasant View? He who strives, and attains; who has the divine presumption to say: “For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day” (St. Paul). It goes without saying that such a one was never called to Pleasant View for penance