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with the adult, or the human belief resembles the divine
idea. Hence it is impossible for those holding such material and mortal
views to demonstrate my metaphysics. Theirs is the sensuous thought,
which brings forth its own sensuous conception. Mine is the spiritual
idea which transfigures thought.

All real being represents God, and is in Him. In this Science of being,
man can no more relapse or collapse from perfection, than his divine
Principle, or Father, can fall out of Himself into something below
infinitude. Man's real ego, or selfhood, is goodness. If man's
individuality were evil, he would be annihilated, for evil is
self-destroying.
Man's individual being must reflect the supreme individual Being, to be
His image and likeness; and this individuality never originated in
molecule, corpuscle, materiality, or mortality. God holds man in the
eternal bonds of Science,--in the immutable harmony of divine law.
Man is a celestial; and in the spiritual universe he is forever individual
and forever harmonious. "If God so clothe the grass of the field, ... shall
He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?"
Sin must be obsolete,--dust returning to dust, nothingness to
nothingness. Sin is not Mind; it is but the supposition that there is more
than one Mind. It issues a false claim; and the claim, being worthless, is
in reality no claim whatever. Matter is not Mind, to claim aught; but
Mind is God, and evil finds no place in good. When we get near
enough to God to see this, the springtide of Truth in Christian Science
will burst upon us in the similitude of the Apocalyptic pictures. No
night will be there, and there will be no more sea. There will be no need
of the sun, for Spirit will be the light of the city, and matter will be
proved a myth. Until centuries pass, and this vision of Truth is fully
interpreted by divine Science, this prophecy will be scoffed at; but it is
just as veritable now as it can be then. Science, divine Science, presents
the grand and eternal verities of God and man as the divine Mind and
that Mind's idea.
Mortal man is the antipode of immortal man, and the two should not be
confounded. Bishop Foster said, in a lecture in Boston, "No man living
hath yet seen man." This material sinful personality, which we
misname man, is what St. Paul terms "the old man and his deeds," to be
"put off."
Who can say what the absolute personality of God or man is? Who
living hath seen God or a perfect man? In presence of such thoughts

take off thy shoes and tread lightly, for this is holy ground. Surely the
probation of mortals must go on after the change called death, that they
may learn the definition of immortal being; or else their present
mistakes would extinguish human existence. How long this false sense
remains after the transition called death, no mortal knoweth; but this is
sure, that the mists of error, sooner or later, will melt in the fervent heat
of suffering, mortality will burst the barriers of sense, and man be
found perfect and eternal. Of his intermediate conditions--the purifying
processes and terrible revolutions necessary to effect this end--I am
ignorant.
Inasmuch as these momentous facts in the Science of being must be
learned some time, now is the most acceptable time for beginning the
lesson. If Science is pointing the way, and is found to bring with it
health, holiness, and immortality, then to-day is none too soon for
entering this path. The proof that Christian Science is the way of
salvation given by Christ, I consider well established. The present, as
well as the future, reveals the fact that Truth is never understood too
soon.
Has Truth, as demonstrated by Jesus, reappeared? Study Christian
Science and practise it, and you will know that Truth has reappeared.
What is demonstrably true cannot be gainsaid; but getting the letter and
omitting the spirit of this Science is neither the comprehension of its
Principle nor the practice of its Life.

HAS MAN A SOUL?
The Scriptures inform us that "the soul that sinneth, it shall die." Here
soul means sense and organic life; and this passage refers to the Jewish
law, that a mortal should be put to death for his own sin, but not for
another's. Not Soul, but mortal sense, sins and dies. Immortal man has
immortal Soul and a deathless sense of being. Mortal man has but a
false sense of Soul and body. He believes that Spirit, or Soul, exists in
matter. This is pantheism, and is not the Science of Soul. The
mind-quacks have so slight a knowledge of Soul that they believe

material and sinning sense to be soul; and then