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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

 6	    This age is reaching out towards the perfect Principle
  	of things; is pushing towards perfection in art, inven-
  	tion, and manufacture. Why, then, should religion be
 9	stereotyped, and we not obtain a more perfect and prac-
  	tical Christianity? It will never do to be behind the
  	times in things most essential, which proceed from the
12	standard of right that regulates human destiny. Human
  	skill but foreshadows what is next to appear as its divine
  	origin. Proportionately as we part with material systems
15	and theories, personal doctrines and dogmas, meekly to
  	ascend the hill of Science, shall we reach the maximum
  	of perfection in all things. 
18	    Spirit is omnipotent; hence a more spiritual Chris-
  	tianity will be one having more power, having perfected
  	in Science that most important of all arts, — healing. 
21	    Metaphysical healing, or Christian Science, is a de-
  	mand of the times. Every man and every woman would
  	desire and demand it, if he and she knew its infinite
24	value and firm basis. The unerring and fixed Principle
  	of all healing is God; and this Principle should be
  	sought from the love of good, from the most spiritual
27	and unselfish motives. Then will it be understood to be
  	of God, and not of man; and this will prevent mankind
  	from striking out promiscuously, teaching and practising
 
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 1	in the name of Science without knowing its fundamental
  	Principle. 
 3	    It is important to know that a malpractice of the best
  	system will result in the worst form of medicine. More-
  	over, the feverish, disgusting pride of those who call
 6	themselves metaphysicians or Scientists, — but are such
  	in name only, — fanned by the breath of mental mal-
  	practice, is the death's-head at the feast of Truth; the
 9	monkey in harlequin jacket that will retard the onward
  	march of life-giving Science, if not understood and with-
  	stood, and so strangled in its attempts. 
12	    The standard of metaphysical healing is traduced by
  	thinking to put into the old garment of drugging the new
  	cloth of metaphysics; or by trying to twist the fatal
15	magnetic force of mortal mind, termed hypnotism, into
  	a more fashionable cut and naming that "mind-cure,"
  	or — which is still worse in the eyes of Truth — terming
18	it metaphysics! Substituting good words for a good life,
  	fair-seeming for straightforward character, mental mal-
  	practice for the practice of true medicine, is a poor shift
21	for the weak and worldly who think the standard of
  	Christian Science too high for them. 
  	    What think you of a scientist in mathematics who finds
24	fault with the exactness of the rule because unwilling to
  	work hard enough to practise it? The perfection of the
  	rule of Christian Science is what constitutes its utility:
27	having a true standard, if some fall short, others will
  	approach it; and these are they only who adhere to that
  	standard. 
30	    Matter must be understood as a false belief or product
  	of mortal mind:  whence we learn that sensation is not
  	in matter, but in this so-called mind; that we see and
 
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 1	feel disease only by reason of our belief in it:  then shall
  	matter remain no longer to blind us to Spirit, and clog
 3	the wheels of progress. We spread our wings in vain when
  	we attempt to mount above error by speculative views
  	of Truth. 
 6	    Love is the Principle of divine Science; and Love is
  	not learned of the material senses, nor gained by a culpa-
  	ble attempt to seem what we have not lifted ourselves
 9	to be, namely, a Christian. In love for man, we gain a
  	true sense of Love as God; and in no other way can we
  	reach this spiritual sense, and rise — and still rise — to
12	things most essential and divine. What hinders man's
  	progress is his vain conceit, the Phariseeism of the times,
  	also his effort to steal from others and avoid hard work;
15	errors which can never find a place in Science. Empiri-
  	cal knowledge is worse than useless:  it never has advanced
  	man a single step in the scale of being. 
18	    That one should have ventured on such unfamiliar
  	ground, and, self-forgetful, should have gone on to estab-
  	lish this mighty system of metaphysical healing, called
21	Christian Science, against such odds, — even the entire
  	current of mortality, — is matter of grave wonderment to
  	profound thinkers. That, in addition to this, she has made
24	some progress, has seen far into the spiritual facts of be-
  	ing which constitute physical and mental perfection, in
  	the midst of an age so sunken in sin and sensuality, seems
27	to them still more inconceivable. 
  	    In this new departure of metaphysics, God is regarded
  	more as absolute, supreme; and Christ is clad with a
30	richer illumination as our Saviour from sickness, sin,
  	and death. God's fatherliness as Life, Truth, and Love,
  	makes His sovereignty glorious. 
 
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 1	    By this system, too, man has a changed recognition
  	of his relation to God. He is no longer obliged to sin,
 3	be sick, and die to reach heaven, but is required and em-
  	powered to conquer sin, sickness, and death; thus, as
  	image and likeness, to reflect Him who destroys death
 6	and hell. By this reflection, man becomes the partaker
  	of that Mind whence sprang the universe. 
  	    In Christian Science, progress is demonstration, not
 9	doctrine. This Science is ameliorative and regenerative,
  	delivering mankind from all error through the light and
  	love of Truth. It gives to the race loftier desires and new
12	possibilities. It lays the axe at the root of the tree of
  	knowledge, to cut down all that bringeth not forth good
  	fruit; "and blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended
15	in me." It touches mind to more spiritual issues, sys-
  	tematizes action, gives a keener sense of Truth and a
  	stronger desire for it. 
18	    Hungering and thirsting after a better life, we shall
  	have it, and become Christian Scientists; learn God
  	aright, and know something of the ideal man, the real
21	man, harmonious and eternal. This movement of thought
  	must push on the ages:  it must start the wheels of reason
  	aright, educate the affections to higher resources, and
24	leave Christianity unbiased by the superstitions of a
  	senior period. 
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