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and take drugs to support God's

      power to heal them. It is difficult to say how much

      one can do for himself, whose faith is divided be-

      tween catnip and Christ; but not so difficult to know [5]

      that if he were to serve one master, he could do vastly

      more. Whosoever understands the power of Spirit, has

      no doubt of God's power—even the might of Truth—

      to heal, through divine Science, beyond all human means

      and methods. [10]

      What do you think of marriage?

      That it is often convenient, sometimes pleasant, and

      occasionally a love affair. Marriage is susceptible of

      many definitions. It sometimes presents the most

      wretched condition of human existence. To be normal, [15]

      it must be a union of the affections that tends to lift

      mortals higher.

      If this life is a dream not dispelled, but only changed,

      by death—if one gets tired of it, why not commit

      suicide? [20]

      Man's existence is a problem to be wrought in divine

      Science. What progress would a student of science

      make, if, when tired of mathematics or failing to dem-

      onstrate one rule readily, he should attempt to work

      out a rule farther on and more difficult—and this, [25]

      because the first rule was not easily demonstrated? In

      that case he would be obliged to turn back and work

      out the previous example, before solving the advanced

      problem. Mortals have the sum of being to work out,

      and up, to its spiritual standpoint. They must work [30]

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      out of this dream or false claim of sensation and life [1]

      in matter, and up to the spiritual realities of existence,

      before this false claim can be wholly dispelled. Com-

      mitting suicide to dodge the question is not working

      it out. The error of supposed life and intelligence in [5]

      matter, is dissolved only as we master error with Truth.

      Not through sin or suicide, but by overcoming tempta-

      tion and sin, shall we escape the weariness and wicked-

      ness of mortal existence, and gain heaven, the harmony

      of being. [10]

      Do you sometimes find it advisable to use medicine to

      assist in producing a cure, when it is difficult to start the

      patient's recovery?

      You only weaken your power to heal through Mind,

      by any compromise with matter; which is virtually ac- [15]

      knowledging that under difficulties the former is not equal

      to the latter. He that resorts to physics, seeks what is

      below instead of above the standard of metaphysics;

      showing his ignorance of the meaning of the term and

      of Christian Science. [20]

      If Christian Science is the same as Jesus taught, why is

      it not more simple, so that all can readily understand it?

      The teachings of Jesus were simple; and yet he found

      it difficult to make the rulers understand, because of

      their great lack of spirituality. Christian Science is [25]

      simple, and readily understood by the children; only

      the thought educated away from it finds it abstract or

      difficult to perceive. Its seeming abstraction is the

      mystery of godliness; and godliness is simple to the

      godly; but to the unspiritual, the ungodly, it is dark [30]

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      and difficult. The carnal mind cannot discern spiritual [1]

      things.

      Has Mrs. Eddy lost her power to heal?

      Has the sun forgotten to shine, and the planets to

      revolve around it? Who is it that discovered, dem- [5]

      onstrated, and teaches Christian Science? That one,

      whoever it be, does understand something of what can-

      not be lost. Thousands in the field of metaphysical

      healing, whose lives are worthy testimonials, are her

      students, and they bear witness to this fact. Instead [10]

      of losing her power to heal, she is demonstrating the

      power of Christian Science over all obstacles that envy

      and malice would fling in her path. The reading of her

      book, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”

      is curing hundreds at this very time; and the sick, un- [15]

      asked, are testifying thereto.

      Must I study your Science in order to keep well all my

      life? I was healed of a chronic trouble after one month's

      treatment by one of your students.

      When once you are healed by Science, there is no rea- [20]

      son why you should be liable to a return of the disease

      that you were healed of. But not to be subject again to

      any disease whatsoever, would require an understanding

      of the Science by which you were healed.

      Because none of your students have been able to perform [25]

      as great miracles in healing as Jesus and his disciples did,

      does it not suggest the possibility that they do not heal on

      the same basis?

      You would not ask the pupil in simple equations to

      solve a problem involving logarithms; and then, because [30]

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      he failed to get the right answer, condemn the pupil [1]

      and the science of numbers. The simplest problem

      in Christian Science is healing the sick, and the least

      understanding and demonstration thereof prove all its

      possibilities. The ability to demonstrate to the extent [5]

      that Jesus did, will come when the student possesses as

      much of the divine Spirit as he shared, and utilizes its

      power to overcome sin.

      Opposite to good, is the universal claim of evil that

      seeks the proportions of good. There may be those [10]

      who, having learned the power of the unspoken thought,

      use it to harm rather

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