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your fruition.
Hoping to pacify repeated complaints and murmurings against too great
leniency, on my part, towards some of my students who fall into error, I
have opposed occasionally and strongly--especially in the first edition
of this little work--existing wrongs of the nature referred to. But I now
point steadfastly to the power of grace to overcome evil with good.
God will "furnish a table in the wilderness" and show the power of
Love.
Science is not the shibboleth of a sect or the cabalistic insignia of
philosophy; it excludes all error and includes all Truth. More mistakes
are made in its name than this period comprehends. Divinely defined,
Science is the atmosphere of God; humanly construed, and according to
Webster, it is "knowledge, duly arranged and referred to general truths
and principles on which it is founded, and from which it is derived." I
employ this awe-filled word in both a divine and human sense; but I
insist that Christian Science is demonstrably as true, relative to the
unseen verities of being, as any proof that can be given of the
completeness of Science.

The two largest words in the vocabulary of thought are "Christian" and
"Science." The former is the highest style of man; the latter reveals and
interprets God and man; it aggregates, amplifies, unfolds, and expresses
the ALL-God. The life of Christ is the predicate and postulate of all
that I teach, and there is but one standard statement, one rule, and one
Principle for all scientific truth.
My hygienic system rests on Mind, the eternal Truth. What is termed
matter, or relates to its so-called attributes, is a self-destroying error.
When a so-called material sense is lost, and Truth restores that lost
sense,--on the basis that all consciousness is Mind and eternal,--the
former position, that sense is organic and material, is proven erroneous.
The feasibility and immobility of Christian Science unveil the true
idea,--namely, that earth's discords have not the reality of Mind in the
Science of being; and this idea--dematerializing and spiritualizing
mortals--turns like the needle to the pole all hope and faith to God,
based as it is on His omnipotence and omnipresence.
Eternal harmony, perpetuity, and perfection, constitute the phenomena
of being, governed by the immutable and eternal laws of God; whereas
matter and human will, intellect, desire, and fear, are not the creators,
controllers, nor destroyers of life or its harmonies. Man has an
immortal Soul, a divine Principle, and an eternal being. Man has
perpetual individuality; and God's laws, and their intelligent and
harmonious action, constitute his individuality in the Science of Soul.
In its literary expression, my system of Christian metaphysics is
hampered by material terms, which must be used to indicate thoughts
that are to be understood metaphysically. As a Science, this system is
held back by the common ignorance of what it is and what it does, and
(worse still) by those who come falsely in its name. To be appreciated,
Science must be understood and conscientiously introduced. If the
Bible and Science and Health had the place in schools of learning that
physiology occupies, they would revolutionize and reform the world,
through the power of Christ. It is true that it requires more study to
understand and demonstrate what these works teach, than to learn
theology, physiology, or physics; because they teach divine Science,

with fixed Principle, given rule, and unmistakable proof.
Ancient and modern human philosophy are inadequate to grasp the
Principle of Christian Science, or to demonstrate it. Revelation shows
this Principle, and will rescue reason from the thrall of error.
Revelation must subdue the sophistry of intellect, and spiritualize
consciousness with the dictum and the demonstration of Truth and
Love. Christian Science Mind-healing can only be gained by working
from a purely Christian standpoint. Then it heals the sick and exalts the
race. The essence of this Science is right thinking and right
acting--leading us to see spirituality and to be spiritual, to understand
and to demonstrate God.
The Massachusetts Metaphysical College and Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, were the outgrowth of the author's religious
experience. After a lifetime of orthodoxy on the platform of doctrines,
rites, and ceremonies, it became a sacred duty for her to impart to
others this new-old knowledge of God.
The same affection, desire, and motives which have stimulated true
Christianity in all ages, and given impulse to goodness, in or out of the
Church, have nerved her purpose to build on the new-born conception
of the Christ, as Jesus declared himself,--namely, "the way, the truth,
and the life." Living a true life, casting out evil, healing the sick, and
preaching the gospel of Truth,--these are the ends of Christianity. This
divine way impels a spiritualization of thought and method, beyond
doctrine and ritual; and in nothing else has