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far from ready to assimilate such a grand and
all-absorbing verity concerning the divine nature and character as is
embraced in the theory of God's blindness to error and ignorance of sin.
No wise mother, though a graduate of Wellesley College, will talk to
her babe about the problems of Euclid.
Not much more than a half-century ago the assertion of universal
salvation provoked discussion and horror, similar to what our
declarations about sin and Deity must arouse, if hastily pushed to the
front while the platoons of Christian Science are not yet thoroughly
drilled in the plainer manual of their spiritual armament. "Wait
patiently on the Lord;" and in less than another fifty years His name
will be magnified in the apprehension of this new subject, as already
He is glorified in the wide extension of belief in the impartial grace of
God,--shown by the changes at Andover Seminary and in multitudes of
other religious folds.
Nevertheless, though I thus speak, and from my heart of hearts, it is due
both to Christian Science and myself to make also the following
statement: When I have most clearly seen and most sensibly felt that
the infinite recognizes no disease, this has not separated me from God,
but has so bound me to Him as to enable me instantaneously to heal a
cancer which had eaten its way to the jugular vein.
In the same spiritual condition I have been able to replace dislocated
joints and raise the dying to instantaneous health. People are now living
who can bear witness to these cures. Herein is my evidence, from on
high, that the views here promulgated on this subject are correct.

Certain self-proved propositions pour into my waiting thought in
connection with these experiences; and here is one such conviction:
that an acknowledgment of the perfection of the infinite Unseen confers
a power nothing else can. An incontestable point in divine Science is,
that because God is All, a realization of this fact dispels even the sense
or consciousness of sin, and brings us nearer to God, bringing out the
highest phenomena of the All-Mind.

Seedtime and Harvest
Let another query now be considered, which gives much trouble to
many earnest thinkers before Science answers it.
_Is anything real of which the physical senses are cognizant?_
Everything is as real as you make it, and no more so. What you see,
hear, feel, is a mode of consciousness, and can have no other reality
than the sense you entertain of it.
It is dangerous to rest upon the evidence of the senses, for this evidence
is not absolute, and therefore not real, in our sense of the word. All that
is beautiful and good in your individual consciousness is permanent.
That which is not so is illusive and fading. My insistence upon a proper
understanding of the unreality of matter and evil arises from their
deleterious effects, physical, moral, and intellectual, upon the race.
All forms of error are uprooted in Science, on the same basis whereby
sickness is healed,--namely, by the establishment, through reason,
revelation, and Science, of the nothingness of every claim of error,
even the doctrine of heredity and other physical causes. You
demonstrate the process of Science, and it proves my view conclusively,
that mortal mind is the cause of all disease. Destroy the mental sense of
the disease, and the disease itself disappears. Destroy the sense of sin,
and sin itself disappears.
Material and sensual consciousness are mortal. Hence they must, some
time and in some way, be reckoned unreal. That time has partially

come, or my words would not have been spoken. Jesus has made the
way plain,--so plain that all are without excuse who walk not in it; but
this way is not the path of physical science, human philosophy, or
mystic psychology.
The talent and genius of the centuries have wrongly reckoned. They
have not based upon revelation their arguments and conclusions as to
the source and resources of being,--its combinations, phenomena, and
outcome,--but have built instead upon the sand of human reason. They
have not accepted the simple teaching and life of Jesus as the only true
solution of the perplexing problem of human existence.
Sometimes it is said, by those who fail to understand me, that I
_monopolize_; and this is said because ideas akin to mine have been
held by a few spiritual thinkers in all ages. So they have, but in a far
different form. Healing has gone on continually; yet healing, as I teach
it, has not been practised since the days of Christ.
What is the cardinal point of the difference in my metaphysical system?
This: that _by knowing the unreality of disease, sin, and death_, you
demonstrate the allness of God. This difference wholly separates my
system from