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Holding the right idea of man in my [1]

      mind, I can improve my own, and other people's individ-

      uality, health, and morals; whereas, the opposite image

      of man, a sinner, kept constantly in mind, can no more

      improve health or morals, than holding in thought the [5]

      form of a boa-constrictor can aid an artist in painting a

      landscape.

      Man is seen only in the true likeness of his Maker.

      Believing a lie veils the truth from our vision; even as

      in mathematics, in summing up positive and negative [10]

      quantities, the negative quantity offsets an equal positive

      quantity, making the aggregate positive, or true quantity,

      by that much, less available.

      Why do Christian Scientists hold that their theology is

      essential to heal the sick, when the mind-cure claims to heal [15]

      without it?

      The theology of Christian Science is Truth; opposed

      to which is the error of sickness, sin, and death, that

      Truth destroys.

      A “mind-cure” is a matter-cure. An adherent to this [20]

      method honestly acknowledges this fact in her work

      entitled “Mind-cure on a Material Basis.” In that

      work the author grapples with Christian Science, attempts

      to solve its divine Principle by the rule of human mind,

      fails, and ends in a parody on this Science which is amus- [25]

      ing to astute readers—especially when she tells them

      that she is practising this Science.

      The theology of Christian Science is based on the action

      of the divine Mind over the human mind and body;

      whereas, “mind-cure” rests on the notion that the human [30]

      mind can cure its own disease, or that which it causes,

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      and the sickness of matter—which is infidel in the one [1]

      case, and anomalous in the other. It was said of old by

      Truth-traducers, that Jesus healed through Beelzebub;

      but the claim that one erring mind cures another one was

      at first gotten up to hinder his benign influence and to hide [5]

      his divine power.

      Our Master understood that Life, Truth, Love are the

      triune Principle of all pure theology; also, that this divine

      trinity is one infinite remedy for the opposite triad, sick-

      ness, sin, and death. [10]

      If there is no sin, why did Jesus come to save sinners?

      If there is no reality in sickness, why does a Chris-

      tian Scientist go to the bedside and address himself to

      the healing of disease, on the basis of its unreality?

      Jesus came to seek and to save such as believe in the [15]

      reality of the unreal; to save them from this false belief;

      that they might lay hold of eternal Life, the great reality

      that concerns man, and understand the final fact—that

      God is omnipotent and omnipresent; yea, “that the Lord

      He is God; there is none else beside Him,” as the Scrip- [20]

      tures declare.

      If Christ was God, why did Jesus cry out, “My God,

      why hast Thou forsaken me?”

      Even as the struggling heart, reaching toward a higher

      goal, appeals to its hope and faith, Why failest thou [25]

      me? Jesus as the son of man was human: Christ as

      the Son of God was divine. This divinity was reaching

      humanity through the crucifixion of the human—that

      momentous demonstration of God, in which Spirit proved

      its supremacy over matter. Jesus assumed for mortals the [30]

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      weakness of flesh, that Spirit might be found “All-in-all.” [1]

      Hence, the human cry which voiced that struggle;

      thence, the way he made for mortals' escape. Our

      Master bore the cross to show his power over death;

      then relinquished his earth-task of teaching and dem- [5]

      onstrating the nothingness of sickness, sin, and death,

      and rose to his native estate, man's indestructible eternal

      life in God.

      What can prospective students of the College take for

      preliminary studies? Do you regard the study of litera- [10]

      ture and languages as objectionable?

      Persons contemplating a course at the Massachusetts

      Metaphysical College, can prepare for it through no

      books except the Bible, and “Science and Health with

      Key to the Scriptures.” Man-made theories are nar- [15]

      row, else extravagant, and are always materialistic.

      The ethics which guide thought spiritually must bene-

      fit every one; for the only philosophy and religion that

      afford instruction are those which deal with facts and

      resist speculative opinions and fables. [20]

      Works on science are profitable; for science is not

      human. It is spiritual, and not material. Literature

      and languages, to a limited extent, are aids to a student

      of the Bible and of Christian Science.

      Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition [25]

      of mortality?

      It is quite as possible to know wherefore man is thus

      conditioned, as to be certain that he is in a state of

      mortality. The only evidence of the existence of a mor-

      tal man, or of a material state and universe, is gathered [30]

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      from the five personal senses. This delusive evidence, [1]

      Science has dethroned by repeated proofs of its falsity.

      We have no more proof of human discord—sin,

      sickness, disease, or death—than we have that the

      earth's surface is flat, and her motions imaginary. If [5]

      man's ipse dixit as to the stellar system is correct, this

      is because Science is true, and the evidence of the senses

      is false. Then why not submit to the affirmations of

      Science

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