,,no ,,and ,,yes  by  ,,mary ,,baker    
,,eddy  ,author of ,science and ,health 
with ,key to the ,scriptures  ,published
 by ,the ,trustees under the ,will of   
,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy ,boston1         
,u4,s4,a4  ,authorized ,literature of   
,the ,first ,church of ,christ1         
,scientist in ,boston1 ,massachusetts   
#aiai        ,,preface   ,it was the    
purpose of each edition of this pamphlet
 to benefit no favored class1 but1      
according to the apostle's admonition1  
to reprove1 rebuke1 exhort1 and with the
 power and self-sacrificing spirit of   
,love to correct involuntary as well as 
voluntary error4  ,by a modification of 
the language1 the import of this edition
 is1 we trust1 transparent to the hearts
 of all conscientious laborers in the   
realm of ,mind-healing4 ,to those who   
are athirst for the life-giving waters  
of a true divinity1 it saith tenderly1  
,come and drink2 and if you are babes in
 ,christ1 leave the meat and take the   
unadulterated milk of the ,word1 until  

you grow to apprehend the pure          
spirituality of ,truth4  ,,mary ,,baker 
,,eddy     ,,contents   ,,preface       
,,introduction  ,,disease ,,unreal      
,,science ,,of ,,mind-,,healing  ,,is   
,,christian ,,science ,,of ,,the ,,same 
,,lineage ,,as ,,spiritualism ,,or      
,,theosophy8  ,,is ,,christian ,,science
 ,,from ,,beneath1 ,,and ,,not ,,from   
,,above8  ,,is ,,christian ,,science    
,,pantheistic8  ,,is ,,christian        
,,science ,,blasphemous8  ,,is ,,there  
,a ,,personal ,,deity8  ,,is ,,there ,a 
,,personal ,,devil8  ,,is ,,man ,a      
,,person8  ,,has ,,man ,a ,,soul8  ,,is 
,,sin ,,forgiven8  ,,is ,,there ,,any   
,,such ,,thing ,,as ,,sin8  ,,is ,,there
 ,,no ,,sacrificial ,,atonement8  ,,is  
,,there ,,no ,,intercessory ,,prayer8   
,,should ,,christians ,,beware ,,of     
,,christian ,,science8     ,,no ,,and   
,,yes     ,,introduction   ,to kindle in
 all minds a common sentiment of regard 
for the spiritual idea emanating from   
the infinite1 is a most needful work2   

but this must be done gradually1 for    
,truth is as the still1 small voice1    
which comes to our recognition only as  
our natures are changed by its silent   
influence4  ,small streams are noisy and
 rush precipitately2 and babbling brooks
 fill the rivers till they rise in      
floods1 demolishing bridges and         
overwhelming cities4 ,so men1 when      
thrilled by a new idea1 are sometimes   
impatient2 and1 when public sentiment is
 aroused1 are liable to be borne on by  
the current of feeling4 ,they should    
then turn temporarily from the tumult1  
for the silent cultivation of the true  
idea and the quiet practice of its      
virtues4 ,when the noise and stir of    
contending sentiments cease1 and the    
flames die away on the mount of         
revelation1 we can read more clearly the
 tablets of ,truth4  ,the theology and  
medicine of ,jesus were one1--in the    
divine oneness of the trinity1 ,life1   
,truth1 and ,love1 which healed the sick
 and cleansed the sinful4 ,this trinity 

in unity1 correcting the individual     
thought1 is the only ,mind-healing ,i   
vindicate2 and on its standard have     
emblazoned that crystallized expression1
 ,,christian ,,science4  ,a spurious and
 hydra-headed mind-healing is naturally 
glared at by the pulpit1 ostracized by  
the medical faculty1 and scorned by     
people of common sense4 ,to aver that   
disease is normal1 a ,god-bestowed and  
stubborn reality1 but that you can heal 
it1 leaves you to work against that     
which is natural and a law of being4 ,it
 is scientific to rob disease of all    
reality2 and to accomplish this1 you    
cannot begin by admitting its reality4  
,our ,master taught his students to deny
 self1 sense1 and take up the cross4    
,mental healers who admit that disease  
is real should be made to test the      
feasibility of what they say by healing 
one case audibly1 through such an       
admission1--if this is possible4 ,i have
 healed more disease by the spoken than 
the unspoken word4  ,the honest student 

of ,christian ,science is modest in his 
claims and conscientious in duty1       
waiting and working to mature what he   
has been taught4 ,institutes furnished  
with such teachers are becoming         
beacon-lights along the shores of       
erudition2 and many who are not teachers
 have large practices and some marked   
success in healing the most defiant     
forms of disease4  ,dishonesty destroys 
one's ability to heal mentally4 ,conceit
 cannot avert the effects of deceit4    
,taking advantage of the present        
ignorance in relation to ,christian     
,science ,mind-healing1 many are        
flooding our land with conflicting      
theories and practice4 ,we should not   
spread abroad patchwork ideas that in   
some vital points lack ,science4 ,how   
sad it is that envy will bend its bow   
and shoot its arrow at the idea which   
claims only its inheritance1 is         
naturally modest1 generous1 and sincere6
 while the trespassing error murders    
either friend or foe who stands in its  

way4 ,truly it is better to fall into   
the hands of ,god1 than of man4  ,when  
,i revised ,science and ,health with    
,key to the ,scriptures1 in #ahgh1 some 
irresponsible people insisted that my   
manual of the practice of ,christian    
,science ,mind-healing should not be    
made public2 but ,i obeyed a diviner    
rule4 ,people dependent on the rules of 
this practice for their healing1 not    
having lost the ,spirit which sustains  
the genuine practice1 will put that book
 in the hands of their patients1 whom it
 will heal1 and recommend it to their   
students1 whom it would enlighten4      
,every teacher must pore over it in     
secret1 to keep himself well informed4  
,the ,nemesis of the history of         
,mind-healing notes this hour4          
,dishonesty necessarily stultifies the  
spiritual sense which ,mind-healers     
specially need2 and which they must     
possess1 in order to be safe members of 
the community4 ,how good and pleasant a 
thing it is to seek not so much thine   

own as another's good1 to sow by the    
wayside for the way-weary1 and trust    
,love's recompense of love4  ,plagiarism
 from my writings is so common it is    
becoming odious to honest people2 and   
such compilations1 instead of possessing
 the essentials of ,christian ,science1 
are tempting and misleading4  ,reading  
,science and ,health has restored the   
sick to health2 but the task of learning
 thoroughly the ,science of             
,mind-healing and demonstrating it      
understandingly had better be undertaken
 in health than sickness4     ,,disease 
,,unreal  ,disease is more than         
imagination2 it is a human error1 a     
constituent part of what comprise the   
whole of mortal existence1--namely1     
material sensation and mental delusion4 
,but an erring sense of existence1 or   
the error of belief1 named disease1     
never made sickness a stubborn reality4 
,on the ground that harmony is the truth
 of being1 the ,science of ,mind-healing
 destroys the feasibility of disease2   

hence error of thought becomes fable    
instead of fact4 ,science demonstrates  
the reality of ,truth and the unreality 
of the error4 ,a self-evident           
proposition1 in the ,science of         
,mind-healing1 is that disease is       
unreal2 and the efficacy of my system1  
beyond other systems of medicine1       
vouches for the validity of that        
statement4 ,sin and disease are not     
scientific1 because they embody not the 
idea of divine ,principle1 and are not  
the phenomena of the immutable laws of  
,god2 and they do not arise from the    
divine consciousness and true           
constituency of being4  ,the unreality  
of sin1 disease1 and death1 rests on the
 exclusive truth that being1 to be      
eternal1 must be harmonious4 ,all       
disease must be--and can only be--healed
 on this basis4 ,all true ,christian    
,scientists are vindicating1 fearlessly 
and honestly1 the ,principle of this    
grand verity of ,mind-healing4  ,in     
erring mortal thought the reality of    

,truth has an antipode1--the reality of 
error2 and disease is one of the severe 
realities of this error4 ,god has no    
opposite in ,science4 ,to ,truth there  
is no error4 ,as ,truth alone is real1  
then it follows that to declare error   
real would be to make it ,truth4        
,disease arises from a false and        
material sense1 from the belief that    
matter has sensation4 ,therefore this   
material sense1 which is untrue1 is of  
necessity unreal4 ,moreover1 this unreal
 sense substitutes for ,truth an unreal 
belief1--namely1 that life and health   
are independent of ,god1 and dependent  
on material conditions4 ,material sense 
also avers that ,spirit1 or ,truth1     
cannot restore health and perpetuate    
life1 but that material conditions can  
and do destroy both human health and    
life4  ,if disease is as real as health1
 and is itself a state of being1 and yet
 is arrayed against being1 then ,mind1  
or ,god1 does not meddle with it4       
,disease becomes indeed a stubborn      

reality1 and man is mortal4 ,a kingdom  
divided against itself is brought to    
desolation2 therefore the mind that     
attacks a normal and real condition of  
man1 is profanely tampering with the    
realities of ,god and ,his laws4        
,metaphysical healing is a lost jewel in
 this misconception of reality4 ,any    
contradictory fusion of ,truth with     
error1 in both theory and practice1     
prevents one from healing               
scientifically1 and makes the last state
 of one's patients worse than the first4
 ,if disease is real it is not illusive1
 and it certainly would contradict the  
,science of ,mind-healing to attempt to 
destroy the realities of ,mind in order 
to heal the sick4  ,on the theory that  
,god's formations are spiritual1        
harmonious1 and eternal1 and that ,god  
is the only creator1 ,christian ,science
 refutes the validity of the testimony  
of the senses1 which take cognizance of 
their own phenomena1--sickness1 disease1
 and death4 ,this refutation is         

indispensable to the destruction of     
false evidence1 and the consequent cure 
of the sick1--as all understand who     
practise the true ,science of           
,mind-healing4 ,if1 as the error        
indicates1 the evidence of disease is   
not false1 then disease cannot be healed
 by denying its validity2 and this is   
why the mistaken healer is not          
successful1 trying to heal on a material
 basis4  ,the evidence that the earth is
 motionless and the sun revolves around 
our planet1 is as sensible and real as  
the evidence for disease2 but ,science  
determines the evidence in both cases to
 be unreal4 ,to material sense it is    
plain also that the error of the        
revolution of the sun around the earth  
is more apparent than the adverse but   
true ,science of the stellar universe4  
,copernicus has shown that what appears 
real1 to material sense and feeling1 is 
absolutely unreal4 ,astronomy1 optics1  
acoustics1 and hydraulics are all at war
 with the testimony of the physical     

senses4 ,this fact intimates that the   
laws of ,science are mental1 not        
material2 and ,christian ,science       
demonstrates this4     ,,science ,,of   
,,mind-,,healing   ,the rule of divinity
 is golden2 to be wise and true rejoices
 every heart4 ,but evil influences waver
 the scales of justice and mercy4 ,no   
personal considerations should allow any
 root of bitterness to spring up between
 ,christian ,scientists1 nor cause any  
misapprehension as to the motives of    
others4 ,we must love our enemies1 and  
continue to do so unto the end4 ,by the 
love of ,god we can cancel error in our 
own hearts1 and blot it out of others4  
,sooner or later the eyes of sinful     
mortals must be opened to see every     
error they possess1 and the way out of  
it2 and they will flee as a bird to your
 mountain1 away from the enemy of       
sinning sense1 stubborn will1 and every 
imperfection in the land of ,sodom1 and 
find rescue and refuge in ,truth and    
,love4  ,every loving sacrifice for the 

good of others is known to ,god1 and the
 wrath of man cannot hide it from ,him4 
,god has appointed for ,christian       
,scientists high tasks1 and will not    
release them from the strict performance
 of each one of them4 ,the students must
 now fight their own battles4 ,i        
recommend that ,scientists draw no lines
 whatever between one person and        
another1 but think1 speak1 teach1 and   
write the truth of ,christian ,science  
without reference to right or wrong     
personality in this field of labor4     
,leave the distinctions of individual   
character and the discriminations and   
guidance thereof to the ,father1 whose  
wisdom is unerring and whose love is    
universal4  ,we should endeavor to be   
long-suffering1 faithful1 and charitable
 with all4 ,to this small effort let us 
add one more privilege--namely1 silence 
whenever it can substitute censure4     
,avoid voicing error2 but utter the     
truth of ,god and the beauty of         
holiness1 the joy of ,love and the peace

 of ,god1 that passeth all              
understanding1 recommending to all men  
fellowship in the bonds of ,christ4     
,advise students to rebuke each other   
always in love1 as ,i have rebuked them4
 ,having discharged this duty1 counsel  
each other to work out his own          
salvation1 without fear or doubt1       
knowing that ,god will make the wrath of
 man to praise ,him1 and that the       
remainder thereof ,he will restrain4 ,we
 can rejoice that every germ of goodness
 will at last struggle into freedom and 
greatness1 and every sin will so punish 
itself that it will bow down to the     
commandments of ,christ1--,truth and    
,love4  ,i enjoin it upon my students to
 hold no controversy or enmity over     
doctrines and traditions1 or over the   
misconceptions of ,christian ,science1  
but to work1 watch1 and pray for the    
amelioration of sin1 sickness1 and      
death4 ,if one be found who is too blind
 for instruction1 no longer cast your   
pearls before this state of mortal mind1

 lest it turn and rend you2 but quietly1
 with benediction and hope1 let the     
unwise pass by1 while you walk on in    
equanimity1 and with increased power1   
patience1 and understanding1 gained from
 your forbearance4 ,this counsel is not 
new1 as my ,christian students can      
testify2 and if it had been heeded in   
times past it would have prevented1 to a
 great extent1 the factions which have  
sprung up among ,scientists to the      
hindrance of the ,cause of ,truth4 ,it  
is true that the mistakes1 prejudices1  
and errors of one class of thinkers must
 not be introduced or established among 
another class who are clearer and more  
conscientious in their convictions2 but 
this one thing can be done1 and should  
be3 let your opponents alone1 and use no
 influence to prevent their legitimate  
action from their own standpoint of     
experience1 knowing1 as you should1 that
 ,god will well regenerate and separate 
wisely and finally2 whereas you may err 
in effort1 and lose your fruition4      

,hoping to pacify repeated complaints   
and murmurings against too great        
leniency1 on my part1 towards some of my
 students who fall into error1 ,i have  
opposed occasionally and                
strongly--especially in the first       
edition of this little work--existing   
wrongs of the nature referred to4 ,but  
,i now point steadfastly to the power of
 grace to overcome evil with good4 ,god 
will furnish a table in the wilderness  
and show the power of ,love4  ,science  
is not the shibboleth of a sect or the  
cabalistic insignia of philosophy2 it   
excludes all error and includes all     
,truth4 ,more mistakes are made in its  
name than this period comprehends4      
,divinely defined1 ,science is the      
atmosphere of ,god2 humanly construed1  
and according to ,webster1 it is        
knowledge1 duly arranged and referred to
 general truths and principles on which 
it is founded1 and from which it is     
derived4 ,i employ this awe-filled word 
in both a divine and human sense2 but ,i

 insist that ,christian ,science is     
demonstrably as true1 relative to the   
unseen verities of being1 as any proof  
that can be given of the completeness of
 ,science4  ,the two largest words in   
the vocabulary of thought are ,christian
 and ,science4 ,the former is the       
highest style of man2 the latter reveals
 and interprets ,god and man2 it        
aggregates1 amplifies1 unfolds1 and     
expresses the ,,all-,god4 ,the life of  
,christ is the predicate and postulate  
of all that ,i teach1 and there is but  
one standard statement1 one rule1 and   
one ,principle for all scientific truth4
  ,my hygienic system rests on ,mind1   
the eternal ,truth4 ,what is termed     
matter1 or relates to its so-called     
attributes1 is a self-destroying error4 
,when a so-called material sense is     
lost1 and ,truth restores that lost     
sense1--on the basis that all           
consciousness is ,mind and eternal1--the
 former position1 that sense is organic 
and material1 is proven erroneous4  ,the

 feasibility and immobility of          
,christian ,science unveil the true     
idea1--namely1 that earth's discords    
have not the reality of ,mind in the    
,science of being2 and this             
idea--dematerializing and spiritualizing
 mortals--turns like the needle to the  
pole all hope and faith to ,god1 based  
as it is on ,his omnipotence and        
omnipresence4  ,eternal harmony1        
perpetuity1 and perfection1 constitute  
the phenomena of being1 governed by the 
immutable and eternal laws of ,god2     
whereas matter and human will1          
intellect1 desire1 and fear1 are not the
 creators1 controllers1 nor destroyers  
of life or its harmonies4 ,man has an   
immortal ,soul1 a divine ,principle1 and
 an eternal being4 ,man has perpetual   
individuality2 and ,god's laws1 and     
their intelligent and harmonious action1
 constitute his individuality in the    
,science of ,soul4  ,in its literary    
expression1 my system of ,christian     
metaphysics is hampered by material     

terms1 which must be used to indicate   
thoughts that are to be understood      
metaphysically4 ,as a ,science1 this    
system is held back by the common       
ignorance of what it is and what it     
does1 and 7worse still7 by those who    
come falsely in its name4 ,to be        
appreciated1 ,science must be understood
 and conscientiously introduced4 ,if the
 ,bible and ,science and ,health had the
 place in schools of learning that      
physiology occupies1 they would         
revolutionize and reform the world1     
through the power of ,christ4 ,it is    
true that it requires more study to     
understand and demonstrate what these   
works teach1 than to learn theology1    
physiology1 or physics2 because they    
teach divine ,science1 with fixed       
,principle1 given rule1 and unmistakable
 proof4  ,ancient and modern human      
philosophy are inadequate to grasp the  
,principle of ,christian ,science1 or to
 demonstrate it4 ,revelation shows this 
,principle1 and will rescue reason from 

the thrall of error4 ,revelation must   
subdue the sophistry of intellect1 and  
spiritualize consciousness with the     
dictum and the demonstration of ,truth  
and ,love4 ,christian ,science          
,mind-healing can only be gained by     
working from a purely ,christian        
standpoint4 ,then it heals the sick and 
exalts the race4 ,the essence of this   
,science is right thinking and right    
acting--leading us to see spirituality  
and to be spiritual1 to understand and  
to demonstrate ,god4  ,the              
,massachusetts ,metaphysical ,college   
and ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in  
,boston1 were the outgrowth of the      
author's religious experience4 ,after a 
lifetime of orthodoxy on the platform of
 doctrines1 rites1 and ceremonies1 it   
became a sacred duty for her to impart  
to others this new-old knowledge of     
,god4  ,the same affection1 desire1 and 
motives which have stimulated true      
,christianity in all ages1 and given    
impulse to goodness1 in or out of the   

,church1 have nerved her purpose to     
build on the new-born conception of the 
,christ1 as ,jesus declared             
himself1--namely1 the way1 the truth1   
and the life4 ,living a true life1      
casting out evil1 healing the sick1 and 
preaching the gospel of ,truth1--these  
are the ends of ,christianity4 ,this    
divine way impels a spiritualization of 
thought and method1 beyond doctrine and 
ritual2 and in nothing else has she     
departed from the old landmarks4  ,the  
unveiled spiritual signification of the 
,word so enlarges our sense of ,god that
 it makes both sense and ,soul1 man and 
,life1 immaterial1 though still         
individual4 ,it removes all limits from 
divine power4 ,god must be found all    
instead of a part of being1 and man the 
reflection of ,his power and goodness4  
,this ,science rebukes sin with its own 
nothingness1 and thus destroys sin      
quickly and utterly4 ,it makes disease  
unreal1 and this heals it4  ,the        
demonstration of moral and physical     

growth1 and a scientific deduction from 
the ,principle of all harmony1 declare  
both the ,principle and idea to be      
divine4 ,if this be true1 then death    
must be swallowed up in ,life1 and the  
prophecy of ,jesus fulfilled1 ,whosoever
 liveth and believeth in me shall never 
die4 ,though centuries passed after     
those words were originally uttered1    
before this reappearing of ,truth1 and  
though the hiatus be longer still before
 that saying is demonstrated in ,life   
that knows no death1 the declaration is 
nevertheless true1 and remains a clear  
and profound deduction from ,christian  
,science4     ,,is ,,christian ,,science
 ,,of ,,the ,,same ,,lineage ,,as       
,,spiritualism ,,or ,,theosophy8        
,science is not susceptible of being    
held as a mere theory4 ,it is hoary with
 time4 ,it takes hold of eternity1      
voices the infinite1 and governs the    
universe4 ,no greater opposites can be  
conceived of1 physically1 morally1 and  
spiritually1 than ,christian ,science1  

spiritualism1 and theosophy4  ,science  
and ,health has effected a revolution in
 the minds of thinkers on the subject of
 mediumship1 and given impulse to reason
 and revelation1 goodness and virtue4 ,a
 theory may be sound in spots1 and      
sparkle like a diamond1 while other     
parts of it have no lustre4 ,christian  
,science is sound in every part4 ,it is 
neither warped nor misconceived1 when   
properly demonstrated4 ,if a            
spiritualist medium understood the      
,science of ,mind-healing1 he would know
 that between those who have and those  
who have not passed the transition      
called death1 there can be no           
interchange of consciousness1 and that  
all sensible phenomena are merely       
subjective states of mortal mind4       
,theosophy is a corruption of ,judaism4 
,this corruption had a renewal in the   
,neoplatonic philosophy2 but it sprang  
from the ,oriental philosophy of        
,brahmanism1 and blends with its magic  
and enchantments4 ,theosophy is no more 

allied to ,christian ,science than the  
odor of the upas-tree is to the sweet   
breath of springtide1 or the brilliant  
coruscations of the northern sky are to 
solar heat and light4     ,,is          
,,christian ,,science ,,from ,,beneath1 
,,and ,,not ,,from ,,above8   ,hear the 
words of our ,master3 ,go ye into all   
the world6 ,heal the sick1 cast out     
devils6 ,christian ,scientists1 perhaps 
more than any other religious sect1 are 
obeying these commands2 and the         
injunctions are not confined to ,jesus' 
students in that age1 but they extend to
 this age1--to as many as shall believe 
on him4 ,the demand and example of      
,jesus were not from beneath4 ,are      
frozen dogmas1 persistent persecution1  
and the doctrine of eternal damnation1  
from above8 ,are the dews of divine     
,truth1 falling on the sick and sinner1 
to heal them1 from beneath8 ,by their   
fruits ye shall know them4  ,reading my 
books1 without prejudice1 would convince
 all that their purpose is right4 ,the  

comprehension of my teachings would     
enable any one to prove these books to  
be filled with blessings for the whole  
human family4 ,fatiguing ,bible         
translations and voluminous commentaries
 are employed to explain and prop old   
creeds1 and they have the civil and     
religious arms in their defense2 then   
why should not these be equally extended
 to support the ,christianity that heals
 the sick8 ,the notions of personality  
to be found in creeds are far more      
mystic than ,mind-healing4 ,it is no    
easy matter to believe there are three  
persons in one person1 and that one     
person is cast out of another person4   
,these conceptions of ,deity and devil  
presuppose an impotent ,god and an      
incredible ,satan4   ,,is ,,christian   
,,science ,,pantheistic8  ,christian    
,science refutes pantheism1 finds       
,spirit neither in matter nor in the    
modes of mortal mind4 ,it shows that    
matter and mortal mind have neither     
origin nor existence in the eternal     

,mind4 ,thinking otherwise is what      
estranges mortals from divine ,life and 
,love4 ,god is ,all-in-all4 ,he is      
,spirit2 and in nothing is ,he unlike   
,himself4 ,nothing that worketh or      
maketh a lie is to be found in the      
divine consciousness4 ,for ,god to know1
 is to be2 that is1 what ,he knows must 
truly and eternally exist4 ,if ,he knows
 matter1 and matter can exist in ,mind1 
then mortality and discord must be      
eternal4 ,he is ,mind2 and whatever ,he 
knows is made manifest1 and must be     
,truth4  ,if ,god knows evil even as a  
false claim1 this knowledge would       
manifest evil in ,him and proceeding    
from ,him4 ,christian ,science shows    
that matter1 evil1 sin1 sickness1 and   
death are but negations of ,spirit1     
,truth1 and ,life1 which are positives  
that cannot be gainsaid4 ,the subjective
 states of evil1 called mortal mind or  
matter1 are negatives destitute of time 
and space2 for there is none beside ,god
 or ,spirit and the idea of ,spirit4    

,this infinite logic is the infinite    
light1--uncomprehended1 yet forever     
giving forth more light1 because it has 
no darkness to emit4 ,mortals do not    
understand the ,all2 hence their        
inference of some other existence beside
 ,god and ,his true likeness1--of       
something unlike ,him4 ,he who is ,all1 
understands all4 ,he can have no        
knowledge or inference but ,his own     
consciousness1 and can take in no more  
than all4  ,the mists of matter--sin1   
sickness1 and death--disappear in       
proportion as mortals approach ,spirit1 
which is the reality of being4 ,it is   
not enough to say that matter is the    
substratum of evil1 and that its highest
 attenuation is mortal mind2 for there  
is1 strictly speaking1 no mortal mind4  
,mind is immortal4 ,death is the        
consequent of an antecedent false       
assumption of the realness of something 
unreal1 material1 and mortal4 ,if ,god  
knows the antecedent1 ,he must produce  
its consequences4 ,from this logic there

 is no escape4 ,matter1 or evil1 is the 
absence of ,spirit or good4 ,their      
nothingness is thus proven2 for ,god is 
good1 ever-present1 and ,all4  ,in ,him 
we live1 and move1 and have our being2  
consequently it is impossible for the   
true man--who is a spiritual and        
individual being1 created in the eternal
 ,science of being--to be conscious of  
aught but good4 ,god's image and        
likeness can never be less than a good  
man2 and for man to be more than ,god's 
likeness is impossible4 ,man is the     
climax of creation2 and ,god is not     
without an ever-present witness1        
testifying of ,himself4 ,matter1 or any 
mode of mortal mind1 is neither part nor
 parcel of divine consciousness and     
,god's verity4  ,in ,science there is no
 fallen state of being2 for therein is  
no inverted image of ,god1 no escape    
from the focal radiation of the         
infinite4 ,hence the unreality of error1
 and the truth of the ,scripture1 that  
there is none beside ,him4 ,if mortals  

could grasp these two words all and     
nothing1 this mystery of a ,god who has 
no knowledge of sin would disappear1 and
 the eternal1 infinite harmony would be 
fathomed4 ,if ,god could know a false   
claim1 false knowledge would be a part  
of ,his consciousness4 ,then evil would 
be as real as good1 sickness as real as 
health1 death as real as ,life2 and     
sickness1 sin1 and death would be as    
eternal as ,god4     ,,is ,,christian   
,,science ,,blasphemous8   ,blasphemy   
has never diminished sin and sickness1  
nor acknowledged ,god in all ,his ways4 
,blasphemy rebukes not the godless lie  
that denies ,him as ,all-in-all1 nor    
does it ascribe to ,him all presence1   
power1 and glory4 ,christian ,science   
does this4 ,if ,science lacked the proof
 of its origin in ,god1 it would be     
self-destructive1 for it rests alone on 
the demonstration of ,god's supremacy   
and omnipotence4 ,right thinking and    
right acting1 physical and moral        
harmony1 come with ,science1 and the    

secret of its presence lies in the      
universal need of better health and     
morals4  ,human theories1 when weighed  
in the balance1 are found unequal to the
 demonstration of divine ,life and      
,love2 and their highest endeavors are1 
to divine ,science1 what a child's love 
of pictures is to art4 ,a child1 in his 
ignorance1 may imagine the face of      
,dante to be the rapt face of ,jesus4   
,thus falsely may the human conceive of 
the ,divine4 ,if the schoolmaster is not
 ,christ1 the school gets things wrong1 
and knows it not2 but the teacher is    
morally responsible4  ,good health and a
 more spiritual religion are the common 
wants2 and these wants have wrought this
 moral result1--that the so-called      
mortal mind asks for what ,mind alone   
can supply4 ,this demand militates      
against the so-called demands of matter1
 and regulates the present high premium 
on ,mind-healing4 ,if the uniform moral 
and spiritual1 as well as physical1     
effects of ,christian ,science were     

lacking1 the premium would go down4     
,that it continues to rise1 and the     
demand to increase1 shows its real value
 to the race4 ,even doctors will agree  
that infidelity1 ignorance1 and quackery
 have never met the growing wants of    
humanity4 ,christian ,science is no     
,boston craze2 it is the sober second   
thought of advancing humanity4     ,,is 
,,there ,a ,,personal ,,deity8   ,god is
 infinite4 ,he is neither a limited mind
 nor a limited body4 ,god is ,love2 and 
,love is ,principle1 not person4 ,what  
the person of the infinite is1 we know  
not2 but we are gratefully and lovingly 
conscious of the fatherliness of this   
,supreme ,being4 ,god is individual1 and
 man is ,his individualized idea4 ,while
 material man and the physical senses   
receive no spiritual idea1 and feel no  
sensation of divine ,love1 spiritual man
 and his spiritual senses are drinking  
in the nature and essence of the        
individual infinite4 ,a sinful sense is 
incompetent to understand the realities 

of being1--that ,life is ,god1 and that 
man is in ,his image and likeness4 ,a   
sinner can take no cognizance of the    
noumenon or the phenomena of ,spirit2   
but leaving sin1 sense rises to the     
fulness of the stature of man in        
,christ4  ,person is formed after the   
manner of mortal man1 so far as he can  
conceive of personality4 ,limitless     
personality is inconceivable4 ,his      
person and perfection are neither       
self-created1 nor discerned through     
imperfection2 and of ,god as a person1  
human reason1 imagination1 and          
revelation give us no knowledge4 ,error 
would fashion ,deity in a manlike mould1
 while ,truth is moulding a ,godlike    
man4  ,when the term divine ,principle  
is used to signify ,deity it may seem   
distant or cold1 until better           
apprehended4 ,this ,principle is ,mind1 
substance1 ,life1 ,truth1 ,love4 ,when  
understood1 ,principle is found to be   
the only term that fully conveys the    
ideas of ,god1--one ,mind1 a perfect    

man1 and divine ,science4 ,as the divine
 ,principle is comprehended1 ,god's     
omnipotence and omnipresence will dawn  
on mortals1 and the notion of an        
everywhere-present body--or of an       
infinite ,mind starting from a finite   
body1 and returning to it--will         
disappear4  ,ever-present ,love must    
seem ever absent to ever-present        
selfishness or material sense4 ,hence   
this asking amiss and receiving not1 and
 the common idolatry of man-worship4 ,in
 divine ,science1 ,god is recognized as 
the only power1 presence1 and glory4    
,adam's mistiness and ,satan's          
reasoning1 ever since the flood1--when  
specimens of every kind emerged from the
 ark1--have run through the veins of all
 human philosophy4 ,human reason is a   
blind guide1 a continued series of      
mortal hypotheses1 antagonistic to      
,revelation and ,science4 ,it is        
continually straying into forbidden     
by-paths of sensualism1 contrary to the 
life and teachings of ,jesus and ,paul1 

and the vision of the ,apocalypse4      
,human philosophy has ninety-nine parts 
of error to the one-hundredth part of   
,truth1--an unsafe decoction for the    
race4 ,the ,science that ,jesus         
demonstrated1 whose views of ,truth     
,confucius and ,plato but dimly         
discerned1 ,science and ,health         
interprets4 ,it was not a search after  
wisdom2 it was wisdom1 and it grasped in
 spiritual law the universe1--all time1 
space1 immortality1 thought1 extension4 
,this ,science demonstrated the         
,principle of all phenomena1 identity1  
individuality1 law2 and showed man as   
reflecting ,god and the divine capacity4
 ,human philosophy would dethrone       
perfection1 and substitute matter and   
evil for divine means and ends4  ,human 
philosophy has an undeveloped ,god1 who 
unfolds ,himself through material modes1
 wherein the human and divine mingle in 
the same realm and consciousness4 ,this 
is rank infidelity2 because by it we    
lose ,god's ways and perpetuate the     

supposed power and reality of evil ad   
infinitum4 ,christian ,science rends    
this veil in the pantheon of many gods1 
and reproduces the teachings of ,jesus1 
whose philosophy is incontestable1 bears
 the strain of time1 and brings in the  
glories of eternity2 for other          
foundation can no man lay than that is  
laid1 which is ,jesus ,christ4  ,divine 
philosophy is demonstrably the true idea
 of the ,christ1 wherein ,principle     
heals and saves4 ,a philosophy which    
cannot heal the sick has little         
resemblance to ,science1 and is1 to say 
the least1 like a cloud without rain1   
driven about by every wind of doctrine4 
,such philosophy has certainly not      
touched the hem of the ,christ garment4 
,leibnitz1 ,descartes1 ,fichte1 ,hegel1 
,spinoza1 ,bishop ,berkeley1 were once  
clothed with a brief authority2 but     
,berkeley ended his metaphysical theory 
with a treatise on the healing          
properties of tar-water1 and ,hegel was 
an inveterate snuff-taker4 ,the         

circumlocution and cold categories of   
,kant fail to improve the conditions of 
mortals1 morally1 spiritually1 or       
physically4 ,such miscalled metaphysical
 systems are reeds shaken by the wind4  
,compared with the inspired wisdom and  
infinite meaning of the ,word of ,truth1
 they are as moonbeams to the sun1 or as
 ,stygian night to the kindling dawn4   
,,is ,,there ,a ,,personal ,,devil8     
,no man hath seen the person of good or 
of evil4 ,each is greater than the      
corporeality we behold4  ,he cast out   
devils4 ,this record shows that the term
 devil is generic1 being used in the    
plural number4 ,from this it follows    
that there is more than one devil4 ,that
 ,jesus cast several persons out of     
another person1 is not stated1 and is   
impossible4 ,hence the passage must     
refer to the evils which were cast out4 
,jesus defined devil as a mortal who is 
full of evil4 ,have ,i not chosen you   
twelve1 and one of you is a devil8 ,his 
definition of evil indicated his ability

 to cast it out4 ,an incorrect concept  
of the nature of evil hinders the       
destruction of evil4 ,to conceive of    
,god as resembling--in personality1 or  
form--the personality that ,jesus       
condemned as devilish1 is fraught with  
spiritual danger4 ,evil can neither     
grasp the prerogative of ,god nor make  
evil omnipotent and omnipresent4  ,jesus
 said to ,peter1 ,get thee behind me1   
,satan2 but he to whom our ,lord gave   
the keys of the kingdom could not have  
been wholly evil1 and therefore was not 
a devil1 after the accepted definition4 
,out of the ,magdalen1 ,jesus cast seven
 devils2 but not one person was named   
among them4 ,according to ,crabtre1     
these devils were the diseases ,jesus   
cast out4  ,the most eminent divines1 in
 ,europe and ,america1 concede that the 
,scriptures have both a literal and a   
moral meaning4 ,which of the two is the 
more important to gain1--the literal or 
the moral sense of the word devil1--in  
order to cast out this devil8 ,evil is a

 quality1 not an individual4  ,as       
mortals1 we need to discern the claims  
of evil1 and to fight these claims1 not 
as realities1 but as illusions2 but     
,deity can have no such warfare against 
,himself4 ,knowledge of a man's physical
 personality is not sufficient to inform
 us as to the amount of good or evil he 
possesses4 ,hence we cannot understand  
,god or man1 through the person of      
either4 ,god is ,all-in-all2 but ,he is 
definite and individual1 the omnipresent
 and omniscient ,mind2 and man's        
individuality is ,god's own image and   
likeness1--even the immeasurable idea of
 divine ,mind4 ,in the ,science of good1
 evil loses all place1 person1 and      
power4  ,according to ,spinoza's        
philosophy ,god is amplification4 ,he is
 in all things1 and therefore ,he is in 
evil in human thought4 ,he is extension1
 of whatever character4 ,also1 according
 to ,spinoza1 man is an animal          
vegetable1 developed through the lower  
orders of matter and mortal mind4 ,all  

these vagaries are at variance with my  
system of metaphysics1 which rests on   
,god as ,one and ,all1 and denies the   
actual existence of both matter and     
evil4 ,according to false philosophy and
 scholastic theology1 ,god is three     
persons in one person4 ,by the same     
token1 evil is not only as real as good1
 but much more real1 since evil         
subordinates good in personality4  ,the 
claims of evil become both less and more
 in ,christian ,science1 than in human  
philosophies or creeds3 more1 because   
the evil that is hidden by dogma and    
human reason is uncovered by ,science2  
and less1 because evil1 being thus      
uncovered1 is found out1 and exposure is
 nine points of destruction4 ,then      
appears the grand verity of ,christian  
,science3 namely1 that evil has no      
claims and was never a claimant2 for    
behold evil 7or devil7 is1 as ,jesus    
said1 a murderer from the beginning1 and
 the truth abode not in him4  ,there was
 never a moment in which evil was real4 

,this great fact concerning all error   
brings with it another and more glorious
 truth1 that good is supreme4 ,as there 
is none beside ,him1 and ,he is all     
good1 there can be no evil4 ,simply     
uttering this great thought is not      
enough6 ,we must live it1 until ,god    
becomes the ,all and ,only of our being4
 ,having won through great tribulation  
this cardinal point of divine ,science1 
,st4 ,paul said1 ,but now we are        
delivered from the law1 that being dead 
wherein we were held2 that we should    
serve in newness of spirit1 and not in  
the oldness of the letter4     ,,is     
,,man ,a ,,person8   ,man is more than  
physical personality1 or what we cognize
 through the material senses4 ,mind is  
more than matter1 even as the infinite  
idea of ,truth is beyond a finite       
belief4 ,man outlives finite mortal     
definitions of himself1 according to a  
law of the survival of the fittest4 ,man
 is the eternal idea of his divine      
,principle1 or ,father4 ,he is neither  

matter nor a mode of mortal mind1 for he
 is spiritual and eternal1 an immortal  
mode of the divine ,mind4 ,man is the   
image and likeness of ,god1 coexistent  
and coeternal with ,him4  ,man is not   
absorbed in ,deity2 for he is forever   
individual2 but what this everlasting   
individuality is1 remains to be learned4
 ,mortals have not seen it4 ,that which 
is born of the flesh is not man's       
eternal identity4 ,spiritual and        
immortal man alone is ,god's likeness1  
and that which is mortal is not man in a
 spiritually scientific sense4 ,a       
material1 sinful mortal is but the      
counterfeit of immortal man4  ,the      
mind-quacks believe that mortal man is  
identical with immortal man1 and that   
the immortal is inside the mortal2 that 
good and evil blend2 that matter and    
,spirit are one2 and that ,soul1 or     
,spirit1 is subdivided into spirits1 or 
souls1--alias gods4 ,this infantile talk
 about ,mind-healing is no more         
identical with ,christian ,science than 

the babe is identical with the adult1 or
 the human belief resembles the divine  
idea4 ,hence it is impossible for those 
holding such material and mortal views  
to demonstrate my metaphysics4 ,theirs  
is the sensuous thought1 which brings   
forth its own sensuous conception4 ,mine
 is the spiritual idea which            
transfigures thought4  ,all real being  
represents ,god1 and is in ,him4 ,in    
this ,science of being1 man can no more 
relapse or collapse from perfection1    
than his divine ,principle1 or ,father1 
can fall out of ,himself into something 
below infinitude4 ,man's real ego1 or   
selfhood1 is goodness4 ,if man's        
individuality were evil1 he would be    
annihilated1 for evil is                
self-destroying4  ,man's individual     
being must reflect the supreme          
individual ,being1 to be ,his image and 
likeness2 and this individuality never  
originated in molecule1 corpuscle1      
materiality1 or mortality4 ,god holds   
man in the eternal bonds of             

,science1--in the immutable harmony of  
divine law4 ,man is a celestial2 and in 
the spiritual universe he is forever    
individual and forever harmonious4 ,if  
,god so clothe the grass of the field1  
444 shall ,he not much more clothe you1 
,o ye of little faith8  ,sin must be    
obsolete1--dust returning to dust1      
nothingness to nothingness4 ,sin is not 
,mind2 it is but the supposition that   
there is more than one ,mind4 ,it issues
 a false claim2 and the claim1 being    
worthless1 is in reality no claim       
whatever4 ,matter is not ,mind1 to claim
 aught2 but ,mind is ,god1 and evil     
finds no place in good4 ,when we get    
near enough to ,god to see this1 the    
springtide of ,truth in ,christian      
,science will burst upon us in the      
similitude of the ,apocalyptic pictures4
 ,no night will be there1 and there will
 be no more sea4 ,there will be no need 
of the sun1 for ,spirit will be the     
light of the city1 and matter will be   
proved a myth4 ,until centuries pass1   

and this vision of ,truth is fully      
interpreted by divine ,science1 this    
prophecy will be scoffed at2 but it is  
just as veritable now as it can be then4
 ,science1 divine ,science1 presents the
 grand and eternal verities of ,god and 
man as the divine ,mind and that ,mind's
 idea4  ,mortal man is the antipode of  
immortal man1 and the two should not be 
confounded4 ,bishop ,foster said1 in a  
lecture in ,boston1 ,no man living hath 
yet seen man4 ,this material sinful     
personality1 which we misname man1 is   
what ,st4 ,paul terms the old man and   
his deeds1 to be put off4  ,who can say 
what the absolute personality of ,god or
 man is8 ,who living hath seen ,god or a
 perfect man8 ,in presence of such      
thoughts take off thy shoes and tread   
lightly1 for this is holy ground4       
,surely the probation of mortals must go
 on after the change called death1 that 
they may learn the definition of        
immortal being2 or else their present   
mistakes would extinguish human         

existence4 ,how long this false sense   
remains after the transition called     
death1 no mortal knoweth2 but this is   
sure1 that the mists of error1 sooner or
 later1 will melt in the fervent heat of
 suffering1 mortality will burst the    
barriers of sense1 and man be found     
perfect and eternal4 ,of his            
intermediate conditions--the purifying  
processes and terrible revolutions      
necessary to effect this end--,i am     
ignorant4  ,inasmuch as these momentous 
facts in the ,science of being must be  
learned some time1 now is the most      
acceptable time for beginning the       
lesson4 ,if ,science is pointing the    
way1 and is found to bring with it      
health1 holiness1 and immortality1 then 
to-day is none too soon for entering    
this path4 ,the proof that ,christian   
,science is the way of salvation given  
by ,christ1 ,i consider well            
established4 ,the present1 as well as   
the future1 reveals the fact that ,truth
 is never understood too soon4  ,has    

,truth1 as demonstrated by ,jesus1      
reappeared8 ,study ,christian ,science  
and practise it1 and you will know that 
,truth has reappeared4 ,what is         
demonstrably true cannot be gainsaid2   
but getting the letter and omitting the 
spirit of this ,science is neither the  
comprehension of its ,principle nor the 
practice of its ,life4     ,,has ,,man  
,a ,,soul8   ,the ,scriptures inform us 
that the soul that sinneth1 it shall    
die4 ,here soul means sense and organic 
life2 and this passage refers to the    
,jewish law1 that a mortal should be put
 to death for his own sin1 but not for  
another's4 ,not ,soul1 but mortal sense1
 sins and dies4 ,immortal man has       
immortal ,soul and a deathless sense of 
being4 ,mortal man has but a false sense
 of ,soul and body4 ,he believes that   
,spirit1 or ,soul1 exists in matter4    
,this is pantheism1 and is not the      
,science of ,soul4 ,the mind-quacks have
 so slight a knowledge of ,soul that    
they believe material and sinning sense 

to be soul2 and then they doctor this   
soul as if it were not even a material  
sense4  ,in ,dr4 ,gordon's sermon on    
,the ,ministry of ,healing1 he said1    
,the forgiven soul in a sick body is not
 half a man4 ,is this pantheistic       
statement sound theology1--that ,soul is
 in matter1 and the immortal part of man
 a sinner8 ,is not this a disparagement 
of the person of man and a denial of    
,god's power8 ,better far that we impute
 such doctrines to mortal opinion than  
to the divine ,word4  ,to my sense1 such
 a statement is a shocking reflection on
 the divine power4 ,a mortal pardoned by
 ,god is not sick1 he is made whole4 ,he
 in whom sin1 disease1 and death are    
destroyed1 is more than a fraction of   
himself4 ,such sermons1 though clad in  
soft raiment1 are spiritless waifs1     
literary driftwood on the ocean of      
thought2 while ,truth walks triumphantly
 over the waves of sin1 sickness1 and   
death4  ,the law of ,life and ,truth is 
the law of ,christ1 destroying all sense

 of sin and death4 ,it does more than   
forgive the false sense named sin1 for  
it pursues and punishes it1 and will not
 let sin go until it is                 
destroyed1--until nothing is left to be 
forgiven1 to suffer1 or to be punished4 
,forgiven thus1 sickness and sin have no
 relapse4 ,god's law reaches and        
destroys evil by virtue of the allness  
of ,god4  ,he need not know the evil ,he
 destroys1 any more than the legislator 
need know the criminal who is punished  
by the law enacted4 ,god's law is in    
three words1 ,i am ,all2 and this       
perfect law is ever present to rebuke   
any claim of another law4 ,god pities   
our woes with the love of a ,father for 
,his child1--not by becoming human1 and 
knowing sin1 or naught1 but by removing 
our knowledge of what is not4 ,he could 
not destroy our woes totally if ,he     
possessed any knowledge of them4 ,his   
sympathy is divine1 not human4 ,it is   
,truth's knowledge of its own infinitude
 which forbids the genuine existence of 

even a claim to error4 ,this knowledge  
is light wherein there is no            
darkness1--not light holding darkness   
within itself4 ,the consciousness of    
light is like the eternal law of ,god1  
revealing ,him and nothing else4        
,sympathy with sin1 sorrow1 and sickness
 would dethrone ,god as ,truth1 for     
,truth has no sympathy for error4 ,in   
,science1 the cure of the sick          
demonstrates this grand verity of       
,christian ,science1 that you cannot    
eradicate disease if you admit that ,god
 sends it or sees it4 ,material and     
mortal mind-healing 7so-called7 has for 
ages been a pretender1 but has not      
healed mortals2 and they are yet sick   
and sinful4  ,disease and sin appear    
to-day in subtler forms than they did   
yesterday4 ,they progress and will      
multiply into worse forms1 until it is  
understood that disease and sin are     
unreal1 unknown to ,truth1 and never    
actual persons or real facts4  ,our     
phraseology varies4 ,to me divine pardon

 is that divine presence which is the   
sure destruction of sin2 and ,i insist  
on the destruction of sin as the only   
full proof of its pardon4 ,for this     
purpose the ,son of ,god was manifested1
 that he might destroy the works of the 
devil 7#a ,john iii4 #h74  ,jesus cast  
out evils1 mediating between what is and
 is not1 until a perfect consciousness  
is attained4 ,he healed disease as he   
healed sin2 but he treated them both1   
not as in or of matter1 but as mortal   
beliefs to be exterminated4 ,physical   
and mental healing were one and the same
 with this master ,metaphysician4 ,if   
the evils called sin1 sickness1 and     
death had been forgiven in the generally
 accepted sense1 they would have        
returned1 to be again forgiven2 but     
,jesus said to disease3 ,come out of    
him1 and enter no more into him4 ,he    
said also3 ,if a man keep my saying1 he 
shall never see death2 and ,whatsoever  
thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound 
in heaven4 ,the misinterpretation of    

such passages has retarded the progress 
of ,christianity and the                
spiritualization of the race4  ,a       
magistrate's pardon may encourage a     
criminal to repeat the offense2 because 
forgiveness1 in the popular sense of the
 word1 can neither extinguish a crime   
nor the motives leading to it4 ,the     
belief in sin--its pleasure1 pain1 or   
power--must suffer1 until it is         
self-destroyed4 ,whatsoever a man       
soweth1 that shall he also reap4        
,,is ,,there ,,any ,,such ,,thing ,,as  
,,sin8   ,frequently when ,i touch this 
subject my meaning is ignorantly or     
maliciously misconstrued4 ,christian    
,science ,mind-healing lifts with a     
steady arm1 and cleaves sin with a broad
 battle-axe4 ,it gives the lie to sin1  
in the spirit of ,truth2 but other      
theories make sin true4 ,jesus declared 
that the devil was a liar1 and the      
father of it4 ,a lie is negation1--alias
 nothing1 or the opposite of something4 
,good is great and real4 ,hence its     

opposite1 named evil1 must be small and 
unreal4 ,when this sense is attained1 we
 shall no longer be the servants of sin1
 and shall cease to love it4  ,the      
domination of good destroys the sense of
 evil4 ,to illustrate3 ,it seems a great
 evil to belie and belittle ,christian  
,science1 and persecute a ,cause which  
is healing its thousands and rapidly    
diminishing the percentage of sin4 ,but 
reduce this evil to its lowest terms1   
nothing1 and slander loses its power to 
harm2 for even the wrath of man shall   
praise ,him4 ,the reduction of evil1 in 
,science1 gives the dominance to ,god1  
and must lead us to bless those who     
curse1 that thus we may overcome evil   
with good4  ,if the ,bible and my work  
,science and ,health had their rightful 
place in schools of learning1 they would
 revolutionize the world by advancing   
the kingdom of ,christ4 ,it requires    
sacrifice1 struggle1 prayer1 and        
watchfulness to understand and          
demonstrate what these volumes teach1   

because they involve divine ,science1   
with fixed ,principle1 a given rule1 and
 unmistakable proof4     ,,is ,,there   
,,no ,,sacrificial ,,atonement8         
,self-sacrifice is the highway to       
heaven4 ,the sacrifice of our blessed   
,lord is undeniable1 and it was a       
million times greater than the brief    
agony of the cross2 for that would have 
been insufficient to insure the glory   
his sacrifice brought and the good it   
wrought4 ,the spilling of human blood   
was inadequate to represent the blood of
 ,christ1 the outpouring love that      
sustains man's at-one-ment with ,god2   
though shedding human blood brought to  
light the efficacy of divine ,life and  
,love and its power over death4 ,jesus' 
sacrifice stands preeminently amidst    
physical suffering and human woe4 ,the  
glory of human life is in overcoming    
sickness1 sin1 and death4 ,jesus        
suffered for all mortals to bring in    
this glory2 and his purpose was to show 
them that the way out of the flesh1 out 

of the delusion of all human error1 must
 be through the baptism of suffering1   
leading up to health1 harmony1 and      
heaven4  ,we shall leave the ceremonial 
law when we gain the truer sense of     
following ,christ in spirit1 and we     
shall no longer venture to materialize  
the spiritual and infinite meaning and  
efficacy of ,truth and ,love1 and the   
sacrifice that ,jesus made for us1 by   
commemorating his death with a material 
rite4 ,jesus said3 ,the hour cometh1 and
 now is1 when the true worshippers shall
 worship the ,father in spirit and in   
truth4 ,they drink the cup of ,christ   
and are baptized in the purification of 
persecution who discern his true        
merit1--the unseen glory of suffering   
for others4 ,physical torture affords   
but a slight illustration of the pangs  
which come to one upon whom the world of
 sense falls with its leaden weight in  
the endeavor to crush out of a career   
its divine destiny4  ,the blood of      
,christ speaketh better things than that

 of ,abel4 ,the real atonement--so      
infinitely beyond the heathen conception
 that ,god requires human blood to      
propitiate ,his justice and bring ,his  
mercy--needs to be understood4 ,the real
 blood or ,life of ,spirit is not yet   
discerned4 ,love bruised and bleeding1  
yet mounting to the throne of glory in  
purity and peace1 over the steps of     
uplifted humanity1--this is the deep    
significance of the blood of ,christ4   
,nameless woe1 everlasting victories1   
are the blood1 the vital currents of    
,christ ,jesus' life1 purchasing the    
freedom of mortals from sin and death4  
,this blood of ,jesus is everything to  
human hope and faith4 ,without it1 how  
poor the precedents of ,christianity6   
,what manner of ,science were ,christian
 ,science without the power to          
demonstrate the ,principle of such      
,life2 and what hope have mortals but   
through deep humility and adoration to  
reach the understanding of this         
,principle6 ,when human struggles cease1

 and mortals yield lovingly to the      
purpose of divine ,love1 there will be  
no more sickness1 sorrow1 sin1 and      
death4 ,he who pointed the way of ,life 
conquered also the drear subtlety of    
death4  ,it was not to appease the wrath
 of ,god1 but to show the allness of    
,love and the nothingness of hate1 sin1 
and death1 that ,jesus suffered4 ,he    
lived that we also might live4 ,he      
suffered1 to show mortals the awful     
price paid by sin1 and how to avoid     
paying it4 ,he atoned for the terrible  
unreality of a supposed existence apart 
from ,god4 ,he suffered because of the  
shocking human idolatry that presupposes
 ,life1 substance1 ,soul1 and           
intelligence in matter1--which is the   
antipode of ,god1 and yet governs       
mankind4 ,the glorious truth of         
being--namely1 that ,god is the only    
,mind1 ,life1 substance1 ,soul--needs no
 reconciliation with ,god1 for it is one
 with ,him now and forever4  ,jesus came
 announcing ,truth1 and saying not only 

the kingdom of ,god is at hand1 but the 
kingdom of ,god is within you4 ,hence   
there is no sin1 for ,god's kingdom is  
everywhere and supreme1 and it follows  
that the human kingdom is nowhere1 and  
must be unreal4 ,jesus taught and       
demonstrated the infinite as one1 and   
not as two4 ,he did not teach that there
 are two deities1--one infinite and the 
other finite2 for that would be         
impossible4 ,he knew ,god as infinite1  
and therefore as the ,all-in-all2 and we
 shall know this truth when we awake in 
the divine likeness4 ,jesus' true and   
conscious being never left heaven for   
earth4 ,it abode forever above1 even    
while mortals believed it was here4 ,he 
once spoke of himself 7,john iii4 #ac7  
as the ,son of man which is in          
heaven1--remarkable words1 as wholly    
opposed to the popular view of ,jesus'  
nature4  ,the real ,christ was          
unconscious of matter1 of sin1 disease1 
and death1 and was conscious only of    
,god1 of good1 of eternal ,life1 and    

harmony4 ,hence the human ,jesus had a  
resort to his higher self and relation  
to the ,father1 and there could find    
rest from unreal trials in the conscious
 reality and royalty of his             
being1--holding the mortal as unreal1   
and the divine as real4 ,it was this    
retreat from material to spiritual      
selfhood which recuperated him for      
triumph over sin1 sickness1 and death4  
,had he been as conscious of these evils
 as he was of ,god1 wherein there is no 
consciousness of human error1 ,jesus    
could not have resisted them2 nor could 
he have conquered the malice of his     
foes1 rolled away the stone from the    
sepulchre1 and risen from human sense to
 a higher concept than that in which he 
appeared at his birth4  ,mankind's      
concept of ,jesus was a babe born in a  
manger1 even while the divine and ideal 
,christ was the ,son of ,god1 spiritual 
and eternal4 ,in human conception ,god's
 offspring had to grow1 develop2 but in 
,science his divine nature and manhood  

were forever complete1 and dwelt forever
 in the ,father4 ,jesus said1 ,ye do    
err1 not knowing the ,scriptures1 nor   
the power of ,god4 ,mortal thought gives
 the eternal ,god and infinite          
consciousness the license of a          
short-lived sinner1 to begin and end1 to
 know both evil and good2 when evil is  
temporal and ,god is eternal1--and when1
 as a sphere of ,mind1 ,he cannot know  
beginning or end4  ,the spiritual       
interpretation of the vicarious         
atonement of ,jesus1 in ,christian      
,science1 unfolds the full-orbed glory  
of that event2 but to regard this wonder
 of glory1 this most marvellous         
demonstration1 as a personal and        
material bloodgiving--or as a proof that
 sin is known to the divine ,mind1 and  
that what is unlike ,god demands ,his   
continual presence1 knowledge1 and      
power1 to meet and master it--would make
 the atonement to be less than the      
at-one-ment1 whereby the work of ,jesus 
would lose its efficacy and lack the    

signs following4  ,from ,genesis to     
,revelation the ,scriptures teach an    
infinite ,god1 and none beside ,him2 and
 on this basis ,messiah and prophet     
saved the sinner and raised the         
dead1--uplifting the human              
understanding1 buried in a false sense  
of being4 ,jesus rendered null and void 
whatever is unlike ,god2 but he could   
not have done this if error and sin     
existed in the ,mind of ,god4 ,what ,god
 knows1 ,he also predestinates2 and it  
must be fulfilled4 ,jesus proved to     
perfection1 so far as this could be done
 in that age1 what ,christian ,science  
is to-day proving in a small            
degree1--the falsity of the evidence of 
the material senses that sin1 sickness1 
and death are sensible claims1 and that 
,god substantiates their evidence by    
knowing their claim4 ,he established the
 only true idealism on the basis that   
,god is ,all1 and ,he is good1 and good 
is ,spirit2 hence there is no           
intelligent sin1 evil mind or matter3   

and this is the only true philosophy and
 realism4 ,this divine mystery of       
godliness was the rock of ,truth1 on    
which he built his ,church of the       
new-born1 against which the gates of    
hell cannot prevail4  ,this ,truth is   
the rock which the builders rejected2   
but the same is become the head of the  
corner4 ,this is the chief corner-stone1
 the basis and support of creation1 the 
interpreter of one ,god1 the infinity   
and unity of good4  ,in proportion as   
mortals approximate the understanding of
 ,christian ,science1 they take hold of 
harmony1 and material incumbrance       
disappears4 ,having one ,god1 one ,mind1
 one consciousness1--which includes only
 ,his own nature1--and loving your      
neighbor as yourself1 constitute        
,christian ,science1 which must         
demonstrate the nothingness of any other
 state or stage of being4     ,,is      
,,there ,,no ,,intercessory ,,prayer8   
,all prayer that is desire is           
intercessory2 but kindling desire loses 

a part of its purest spirituality if the
 lips try to express it4 ,it is a truism
 that we can think more lucidly and     
profoundly than we can write or speak4  
,the silent intercession and unvoiced   
imploring is an honest and potent prayer
 to heal and save4 ,the audible prayer  
may be offered to be heard of men1      
though ostensibly to catch ,god's       
ear1--after the fashion of ,baal's      
prophets1--by speaking loud enough to be
 heard2 but when the heart prays1 and   
not the lips1 no dishonesty or vanity   
influences the petition4  ,prophet and  
apostle have glorified ,god in secret   
prayer1 and ,he has rewarded them       
openly4 ,prayer can neither change ,god1
 nor bring ,his designs into mortal     
modes2 but it can and does change our   
modes and our false sense of ,life1     
,love1 and ,truth1 uplifting us to ,him4
 ,such prayer humiliates1 purifies1 and 
quickens activity1 in the direction that
 is unerring4  ,true prayer is not      
asking ,god for love2 it is learning to 

love1 and to include all mankind in one 
affection4 ,prayer is the utilization of
 the love wherewith ,he loves us4       
,prayer begets an awakened desire to be 
and do good4 ,it makes new and          
scientific discoveries of ,god1 of ,his 
goodness and power4 ,it shows us more   
clearly than we saw before1 what we     
already have and are2 and most of all1  
it shows us what ,god is4 ,advancing in 
this light1 we reflect it2 and this     
light reveals the pure ,mind-pictures1  
in silent prayer1 even as photography   
grasps the solar light to portray the   
face of pleasant thought4  ,what but    
silent prayer can meet the demand1 ,pray
 without ceasing8 ,the apostle ,james   
said3 ,ye ask1 and receive not1 because 
ye ask amiss1 to consume it on your     
lusts4 ,because of vanity and           
self-righteousness1 mortals seek1 and   
expect to receive1 a material sense of  
approval2 and they expect also what is  
impossible1--a material and mortal sense
 of spiritual and immortal ,truth4  ,it 

is sometimes wise to hide from dull and 
base ears the pure pearls of awakened   
consciousness1 lest your pearls be      
trampled upon4 ,words may belie desire1 
and pour forth a hypocrite's prayer2 but
 thoughts are our honest conviction4 ,i 
have no objection to audible prayer of  
the right kind2 but the inaudible is    
more effectual4  ,i instruct my students
 to pursue their mental ministrations   
very sacredly1 and never to touch the   
human thought save to issues of ,truth2 
never to trespass mentally on individual
 rights2 never to take away the rights1 
but only the wrongs of mankind4         
,otherwise they forfeit their ability to
 heal in ,science4 ,only when sickness1 
sin1 and fear obstruct the harmony of   
,mind and body1 is it right for one mind
 to meddle with another mind1 and       
control aright the thought struggling   
for freedom4  ,it is ,truth and ,love   
that cast out fear and heal the sick1   
and mankind are better because of this4 
,if a change in the religious views of  

the patient comes with the change to    
health1 our ,father has done this2 for  
the human mind and body are made better 
only by divine influence4     ,,should  
,,christians ,,beware ,,of ,,christian  
,,science8   ,history repeats itself4   
,the ,pharisees of old warned the people
 to beware of ,jesus1 and contemptuously
 called him this fellow4 ,jesus said1   
,for which of these works do ye stone   
me8 as much as to ask1 ,is it the work  
most derided and envied that is most    
acceptable to ,god8 ,not that he would  
cease to do the will of his ,father on  
account of persecution1 but he would    
repeat his work to the best advantage   
for mankind and the glory of his        
,father4  ,there are sinners in all     
societies1 and it is vain to look for   
perfection in churches or associations4 
,the life of ,christ is the perfect     
example2 and to compare mortal lives    
with this model is to subject them to   
severe scrutiny4 ,without question1 the 
subtlest forms of sin are trying to     

force the doors of ,science and enter   
in2 but this white sanctuary will never 
admit such as come to steal and to rob4 
,through long ages people have slumbered
 over ,christ's commands1 ,go ye into   
all the world1 and preach the gospel2   
,heal the sick1 cast out devils2 and now
 the ,church seems almost chagrined that
 by new discoveries of ,truth sin is    
losing prestige and power4  ,the ,rev4  
,dr4 ,a4,j4 ,gordon1 a ,boston ,baptist 
clergyman1 said in a sermon3 ,the prayer
 of faith shall save the sick1 and it is
 doing it to-day2 and as the faith of   
the ,church increases1 and ,christians  
more and more learn their duty to       
believe all things written in the       
,scriptures1 will such manifestations of
 ,god's power increase among us4 ,such  
sentiments are wholesome avowals of     
,christian ,science4 ,god is not unable 
or unwilling to heal1 and mortals are   
not compelled to have other gods before 
,him1 and employ material forms to meet 
a mental want4 ,the divine ,spirit      

supplies all human needs4 ,jesus said to
 the sick1 ,thy sins are forgiven thee2 
rise up and walk6 ,god's pardon is the  
destruction of all the ills that flesh  
is heir to4  ,all power belongs to ,god2
 and it is not in all the vain power of 
dogma and philosophy to dispossess the  
divine ,mind of healing power1 or to    
cast out error with error1 even in the  
name and for the sake of ,christ1 and so
 heal the sick4 ,while ,science is      
engulfing error in bottomless oblivion1 
the material senses would enthrone error
 as omnipotent and omnipresent1 with    
power to determine the fact and fate to 
being4 ,it is said that the devil is the
 ape of ,god4 ,the lie of evil holds its
 own by declaring itself both true and  
good4 ,the path of ,christian ,science  
is beset with false claimants1 aping its
 virtues1 but cleaving to their own     
vices4 ,denial of the authorship of     
,science and ,health with ,key to the   
,scriptures would make a lie the author 
of ,truth1 and so make ,truth itself a  

lie4  ,a distinguished clergyman came to
 be healed4 ,he said3 ,i am suffering   
from nervous prostration1 and have to   
eat beefsteak and drink strong coffee to
 support me through a sermon4 ,here a   
skeptic might well ask if the atonement 
had lost its efficacy for him1 and if   
,christ's power to heal was not equal to
 the power of daily meat and drink4 ,the
 power of ,truth is not contingent on   
matter4 ,our ,master said1 ,come unto   
me1 all ye that labor and are heavy     
laden1 and ,i will give you rest4 ,truth
 rebukes error2 and whether stall-fed or
 famishing1 theology needs ,truth to    
stimulate and sustain a good sermon4  ,a
 lady said3 ,only ,he who knows all     
things can estimate the good your books 
are doing4  ,a distinguished ,doctor of 
,divinity said3 ,your book leavens my   
sermons4  ,the following extract from a 
letter is a specimen of those received  
daily3 ,your book ,science and ,health  
is healing the sick1 binding up the     
broken-hearted1 preaching deliverance to

 the captive1 convicting the infidel1   
alarming the hypocrite1 and quickening  
the ,christian4  ,christian ,science    
,mind-healing is dishonored by those who
 take it up from mercenary motives1 for 
wealth and fame1 or think to build a    
baseless fabric of their own on         
another's foundation4 ,they cannot put  
the new wine into old bottles2 they can 
never engraft ,truth into error4 ,such  
students come to my ,college to learn a 
system which they go away to disgrace4  
,stealing or garbling my statements of  
,mind-science will never prevent or     
reconstruct the wrecks of isms and help 
humanity4  ,science often suffers blame 
through the sheer ignorance of people1  
while envy and hatred bark and bite at  
its heels4 ,a man's inability to heal1  
on the ,principle of ,christian         
,science1 substantiates his ignorance of
 its ,principle and practice1 and       
incapacitates him for correct comment4  
,this failure should make him modest4   
,christian ,science involves a new      

language1 and a higher demonstration of 
medicine and religion4 ,it is the new   
tongue of ,truth1 having its best       
interpretation in the power of          
,christianity to heal4 ,my system of    
,mind-healing swerves not from the      
highest ethics and from the spiritual   
goal4 ,to climb up by some other way    
than ,truth is to fall4 ,error has no   
hobby1 however boldly ridden or         
brilliantly caparisoned1 that can leap  
into the sanctum of ,christian ,science4
  ,in ,queen ,elizabeth's time          
,protestantism could sentence men to the
 dungeon or stake for their religion1   
and so abrogate the rights of conscience
 and choke the channels of ,god4        
,ecclesiastical tyranny muzzled the     
mouth lisping ,god's praise2 and instead
 of healing1 it palsied the weak hand   
outstretched to ,god4 ,progress1        
legitimate to the human race1 pours the 
healing balm of ,truth and ,love into   
every wound4 ,it reassures us that no   
,reign of ,terror or rule of error will 

again unite ,church and ,state1 or      
re-enact1 through the civil arm of      
government1 the horrors of religious    
persecution4  ,the ,rev4 ,s4,e4         
,herrick1 a ,congregational clergyman of
 ,boston1 says3 ,heretics of yesterday  
are martyrs to-day4 ,in every age and   
clime1 ,on earth peace1 good will toward
 men must be the watchword of           
,christianity4  ,jesus said3 ,i thank   
,thee1 ,o ,father1 ,lord of heaven and  
earth1 that ,thou hast hid these things 
from the wise and prudent1 and hast     
revealed them unto babes4  ,st4 ,paul   
said that without charity we are as     
sounding brass1 or a tinkling cymbal2   
and he added3 ,charity suffereth long1  
and is kind2 444 doth not behave itself 
unseemly1 444 thinketh no evil1 444 but 
rejoiceth in the truth4  ,to hinder the 
unfolding truth1 to ostracize whatever  
uplifts mankind1 is of course out of the
 question4 ,such an attempt indicates   
weakness1 fear1 or malice2 and such     
efforts arise from a spiritual lack1    

felt1 though unacknowledged4  ,let it   
not be heard in ,boston that woman1 last
 at the cross and first at the          
sepulchre1 has no rights which man is   
bound to respect4 ,in natural law and in
 religion the right of woman to fill the
 highest measure of enlightened         
understanding and the highest places in 
government1 is inalienable1 and these   
rights are ably vindicated by the       
noblest of both sexes4 ,this is woman's 
hour1 with all its sweet amenities and  
its moral and religious reforms4        
,drifting into intellectual wrestlings1 
we should agree to disagree2 and this   
harmony would anchor the ,church in more
 spiritual latitudes1 and so fulfil her 
destiny4  ,let the ,word have free      
course and be glorified4 ,the people    
clamor to leave cradle and              
swaddling-clothes4 ,the spiritual status
 is urging its highest demands on       
mortals1 and material history is drawing
 to a close4 ,truth cannot be           
stereotyped2 it unfoldeth forever4 ,one 

on ,god's side is a majority2 and ,lo1  
,i am with you alway1 is the pledge of  
the ,master4  ,the question now at issue
 is3 ,shall we have a practical1        
spiritual ,christianity1 with its       
healing power1 or shall we have material
 medicine and superficial religion8 ,the
 advancing hope of the race1 craving    
health and holiness1 halts for a reply2 
and the reappearing ,christ1 whose      
life-giving understanding ,christian    
,science imparts1 must answer the       
constant inquiry3 ,art thou he that     
should come8 ,woman should not be       
ordered to the rear1 or laid on the     
rack1 for joining the overture of       
angels4 ,theologians descant pleasantly 
upon free moral agency2 but they should 
begin by admitting individual rights4   
,the author's ancestors were among the  
first settlers of ,new ,hampshire4 ,they
 reared there the ,puritan standard of  
undefiled religion4 ,as dutiful         
descendants of ,puritans1 let us lift   
their standard higher1 rejoicing1 as    

,paul did1 that we are free born4  ,man 
has a noble destiny2 and the full-orbed 
significance of this destiny has dawned 
on the sick-bound and sin-enslaved4 ,for
 the unfolding of this upward tendency  
to health1 greatness1 and goodness1 ,i  
shall continue to labor and wait4