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200 to get well. Then man becomes convinced that his body ceases, of its own volition, to live, and that it is then dead and has no longer power to see, smell, hear, think, or suffer. He believes also that his spirit, which he imagined had been imprisoned within his body, is, by the death of his body, set free, and that it then goes off to a world inhabited by other spirits of other dead bodies, and there continues to dwell.

This, according to Science and Health, is the status of "material mankind" to-day. The mission of Jesus Christ was to lead man back to the way of Truth and to restore to him his rightful spiritual character and the power over his body and over all created things. But the work of Christ was incomplete. Although He gave His message, and made His demonstration, He could not finish His task because of "the materiality of the age" in which He lived. He practised and taught Christian Science, and Mrs. Glover went so far as to call Him its "pioneer"; but He left no written statement of its theory, no text-book, and no formulæ by which His disciples could permanently confound disease. That was left to Mrs. Glover, who, after centuries of ignorance, and when the world had lost sight of the real mission of its Saviour, appeared to "this age" to teach and demonstrate and write all Truth in its fulness.

In applying her principle to the present material conditions, Mrs. Glover was emphatic and radical; and it must be admitted that her discussions showed a wonderfully scant knowledge of matters that are merely temporary and mortal. This, however, in the light of her science, would have been considered a proof of her fitness for the task of demolishing mortality, for Mrs.