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Genesis 1:27. Christian Science con tradicts by saying: Man co-exist with God and the universe" Page 266
 The Bible says: "Abhor that whicl is evil" Romans 12:9. Christian Sci ence contradicts by saying: Tn realit! there is no evil" Page 3l1.
 The Bible says: What is a nar profited, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Matthew 16:26. Christian Science contradict: by saying: Tt is the sense of sin. ana not the sinful soul, which must bt lost" Page 311.
 The Bible says: ITO depart, and be with Christ; which is far better | Christian Science contradicts by say ing: Death is not a stepping stone tc life, immortality and bliss" Page 203
 The Bible says: Many believed in His Oesus) name when they saw the miracles which He did" John 1928 Christian Science contradicts by say ing: Miracles are impossible in sci ence." Page S3.
 The Bible says: Tn that same hour He cured many of evil spirits" Luke 7:21. Christian Science contradicts by saying: ''The supposition that there are good and evil spirits is a mistake Evil has no reality" Pages 70 and T.
 The Bible says: Now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Him self" Hebrews 9:26. Christian Sci. ence contradicts by saying: "One sac rifice. however great. is insufficient to pay the debt of sin" Page 23.
 The Bible says: Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" Romans 5:1. Christian Science contradicts by say ing: The atonement requires con- stant self-immolation on the sinners part" Page 23.
 The Bible says: Christ both died and rose" Romans 14:9 Christian Science contradicts by saying: Jesus students. not sufficiently advanced to understand their Masters triumph, did not perform any wonderful works un- til they saw Him after His crucifixion, and learned that He had not died.' Page 45.
 The Bible says: whatsoever ye shall ask in My name. that will do. that the Father may be glorified in the Son" John 14:13. Christian Sci ence contradicts by saying: "The habit of pleading with the divine mind. as one pleads with a human being. perpetuates the belief in God as hu- manly circumscribed-an error that impedes spiritual growth" Page ?.
 When Christian Science cannot etherialize the Scriptures. it flatly con tradicts them. It blasphemously in- forms us that the Jehovah of Genesis 2:7 is the first great idol, simply be- cause He is said to have made man of the dust. And it is apparent from the Christian Science hymnal that it does not hesitate to mutilate orthodox hymns to make them harmonize with its vagaries.
 Christian Science is a prayerless re- ligion. It uses the word prayer. but the fact of prayer in the Christian sense of asking a loving God for something is absent. Its textbook knows only prayer as pious meditation and right living. It uses the Lords prayer with the mental reservation that it means what Mrs. Eddy distorts n AAANO iACoAAh6 dill 6ltu lO OtlltNt that there are Christian Scientists who stil pray. but if they do. it is because of the orthodox teaching of former years which they have not yet un- learned
 Christian Science is a religion with out a personal God. It asserts that love Is God, truth is God, life is God. and everything is God because God is said to be all and in all. But it is evident that any number of things, in deed, all things put together. cannot make an infinite personality
 Christian Science is a religion with out confession of sin, and therefore without forgiveness. It does the very opposite of confessing sin by denying that sin has existence.
 But the saddest feature of all is that Christian Science Is a religion without a Savior It does not shrink from the blasphemy that Christ Him self Is Christian Science. On page PAS 1t says: There Is but one way to heaven and harmony, and Christ di- vine science, shows us the way" It claims again that Christian Science is the Holy Spirit. On page 55: This Comforter I understand to be divine Science" It also asserts that the blessed hope of the Lords second com ing is Christian Science. On page 96 of her autobiography the leader says: The second appearance of Jesus is. the spiritual advent of the advancing idea of God in Christian Science" The whole system is Uni tarian in theology. It claims that Jesus was mere man who was cruci- fled, and His dust remains in the soil of Palestine, while the only resurrec- tion we have is Christian Science. It has taken away our Lord, and we know not where it has laid Him.
 Very truly yours,
 A. C. DIXON.