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 1	           IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BLASPHEMOUS? 

  	    Blasphemy has never diminished sin and sickness, nor
 3	acknowledged God in all His ways. Blasphemy rebukes
  	not the godless lie that denies Him as All-in-all, nor does
  	it ascribe to Him all presence, power, and glory. Chris-
 6	tian Science does this. If Science lacked the proof of its
  	origin in God, it would be self-destructive, for it rests alone
  	on the demonstration of God's supremacy and omnipo-
 9	tence. Right thinking and right acting, physical and
  	moral harmony, come with Science, and the secret of
  	its presence lies in the universal need of better health and
12	morals. 
  	    Human theories, when weighed in the balance, are
  	found unequal to the demonstration of divine  Life and
15	Love; and their highest endeavors are, to divine Science,
  	what a child's love of pictures is to art. A child, in his
  	ignorance, may imagine the face of Dante to be the rapt
18	face of Jesus. Thus falsely may the human conceive of
  	the Divine. If the schoolmaster is not Christ, the school
  	gets things wrong, and knows it not; but the teacher is
21	morally responsible. 
  	    Good health and a more spiritual religion are the com-
  	mon wants; and these wants have wrought this moral
24	result, — that the so-called mortal mind asks for what
  	Mind alone can supply. This demand militates against
  	the so-called demands of matter, and regulates the present
 
   
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 1	high premium on Mind-healing. If the uniform moral
  	and spiritual, as well as physical, effects of Christian Sci-
 3	ence were lacking, the premium would go down. That
  	it continues to rise, and the demand to increase, shows its
  	real value to the race. Even doctors will agree that in-
 6	fidelity, ignorance, and quackery have never met the grow-
  	ing wants of humanity. Christian Science is no "Boston
  	craze;" it is the sober second thought of advancing
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