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 possible without an objective something on which to exercise it.

Now, all this system is as far from the ideas which underlie the teachings of Jesus as is the orbit of the earth from the furthest fixed star. It only accounts for half of the world, for half of man, and involves itself in every contradiction and absurdity. Furthermore, the belief in it is a bar to all progress, to all incentive for physical and energetic action. It superinduces a lazy and contented calm which allows the world and all things in it to drift.

Christ directed men to recognize the reality of pain and sin, and to take measures with His help to prevent, avoid or overcome them. He bade men to analyze the defects of the world, and of the then civilization, and to conserve and build up the means to remedy them. His religion has not fostered a nest of lazy, inactive dreamers; but has developed an aggressive, disciplined, and energetic Church Militant. The end of the Christian is not an absorption into an unconsciousness of realities, but an eternal realization of the best God has made, and a conscious communion with Him forever.

If Christian Science be Christian,