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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.

  	    Is a Christian Scientist ever sick, and has he who is
  	sick been regenerated? 

 6	    The Christian Scientist learns spiritually all that he
  	knows of Life, and demonstrates what he understands. 
  	God is recognized as the divine Principle of his being,
 9	and of every thought and act leading to good. His pur-
  	pose must be right, though his power is temporarily lim-
  	ited. Perfection, the goal of existence, is not won in a
12	moment; and regeneration leading thereto is gradual,
  	for it culminates in the fulfilment of this divine rule in
  	Science: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father
15	which is in heaven is perfect." 
  	    The last degree of regeneration rises into the rest of
  	perpetual, spiritual, individual existence. The first
18	feeble flutterings of mortals Christward are infantile
  	and more or less imperfect. The new-born Christian
  	Scientist must mature, and work out his own salvation. 
21	Spirit and flesh antagonize. Temptation, that mist of
  	mortal mind which seems to be matter and the environ-
  	ment of mortals, suggests pleasure and pain in matter;
24	and, so long as this temptation lasts, the warfare is not
  	ended and the mortal is not regenerated. The pleas-
  	ures — more than the pains — of sense, retard regenera-
27	tion; for pain compels human consciousness to escape
  	from sense into the immortality and harmony of Soul. 
  	Disease in error, more than ease in it, tends to destroy
30	error:  the sick of...ten are thereby led to Christ, Truth,
  	and to learn their way out of both sickness and sin. 

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 1	    The material and physical are imperfect. The in-
  	dividual and spiritual are perfect; these have no fleshly
 3	nature. This final degree of regeneration is saving, and
  	the Christian will, must, attain it; but it doth not yet
  	appear. Until this be attained, the Christian Scientist
 6	must continue to strive with sickness, sin, and death — 
  	though in lessening degrees — and manifest growth at
  	every experience. 
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