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that matter, evil, sin, sickness, and death are but negations of
Spirit, Truth, and Life, which are positives that cannot be gainsaid. The
subjective states of evil, called mortal mind or matter, are negatives
destitute of time and space; for there is none beside God or Spirit and
the idea of Spirit.
This infinite logic is the infinite light,--uncomprehended, yet forever
giving forth more light, because it has no darkness to emit. Mortals do
not understand the All; hence their inference of some other existence
beside God and His true likeness,--of something unlike Him. He who is
All, understands all. He can have no knowledge or inference but His
own consciousness, and can take in no more than all.
The mists of matter--sin, sickness, and death--disappear in proportion
as mortals approach Spirit, which is the reality of being. It is not
enough to say that matter is the substratum of evil, and that its highest
attenuation is mortal mind; for there is, strictly speaking, no mortal
mind. Mind is immortal. Death is the consequent of an antecedent false
assumption of the realness of something unreal, material, and mortal. If
God knows the antecedent, He must produce its consequences. From
this logic there is no escape. Matter, or evil, is the absence of Spirit or
good. Their nothingness is thus proven; for God is good, ever-present,
and All.
"In Him we live, and move, and have our being;" consequently it is
impossible for the true man--who is a spiritual and individual being,
created in the eternal Science of being--to be conscious of aught but
good. God's image and likeness can never be less than a good man; and
for man to be more than God's likeness is impossible. Man is the
climax of creation; and God is not without an ever-present witness,
testifying of Himself. Matter, or any mode of mortal mind, is neither
part nor parcel of divine consciousness and God's verity.
In Science there is no fallen state of being; for therein is no inverted
image of God, no escape from the focal radiation of the infinite. Hence
the unreality of error, and the truth of the Scripture, that there is "none

beside Him." If mortals could grasp these two words all and nothing,
this mystery of a God who has no knowledge of sin would disappear,
and the eternal, infinite harmony would be fathomed. If God could
know a false claim, false knowledge would be a part of His
consciousness. Then evil would be as real as good, sickness as real as
health, death as real as Life; and sickness, sin, and death would be as
eternal as God.

IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BLASPHEMOUS?
Blasphemy has never diminished sin and sickness, nor 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. Christian 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 omnipotence. 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
morals.
Human theories, when weighed in the balance, are found unequal to the
demonstration of divine Life and 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 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 morally responsible.
Good health and a more spiritual religion are the common wants; and
these wants have wrought this moral 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 high
premium on Mind-healing. If the uniform moral and spiritual, as well
as physical, effects of Christian Science 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 infidelity,

ignorance, and quackery have never met the growing wants of
humanity. Christian Science is no "Boston craze;" it is the sober second
thought of advancing humanity.

IS THERE A PERSONAL DEITY?
God is infinite. He is neither a limited mind nor a limited body. God is
Love; and Love is Principle, not person. What the person of the infinite
is, we know not; but we are gratefully and lovingly conscious of the
fatherliness of this Supreme Being. God is individual, and man is His
individualized idea. While