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ERHAPS no doctrine of Christian Science rouses so much natural doubt and questioning as this, that knows no such thing as sin. Indeed, this may be set down as one of the “things hard to be understood,” such as the Apostle Peter declared were taught by his fellow-apostle Paul, “which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest. . . unto their own destruction” (2 iii. 16).

Let us then reason together on this important subject, whose statement in Christian Science may justly be characterized as wonderful.

The nature and character of is so little apprehended and demonstrated by mortals, that I counsel my students to defer this infinite inquiry, in their discussions of Christian Science. In fact, they had better leave the subject untouched, until they draw nearer to the divine character, and are practically