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Father. He also said he came, not to destroy. but to fulfil, and he imme-
 diately went to work to heal the
 sick. cleanse the leper. cast out evil
 and raise the dead, "by the Spirit of God" Do We think Jesus knew what he was doing? Do we thinl;
 he told the truth when he said that
 he came not to destroy but to fuifins | If we believe that he told the truth,
 then We are forced to admit that he destroyed nothing when he cast those | evils out, for not otherwise can the
 truth of his statement, that he came
 not to destroy but to fulfil, be up- held
 More than this. let us recall
 Christ's statemet in speaking of a
 woman who was i'll. when he said
 that Satan had bound her Did he
 mean that in one instance, Satan had | bound a woman because she was bad, and in another instance God
 would do the binding because a man was good? Does the statement which Jesus made indicate an agreement or partnership between God and Satan. | God making some i'll because they
 are good, and Satan making some | i'll because they are bad2' Let us
 recall the man who was sick of the palsy, 10 whom Jesus said: Man.
 thy sins are forgiven thee;" and the man took up his bed and walked.
 Again he said, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death" Do We believe that statement? Oh, what a call that is to us to follow in the footsteps of our Master; how it says 10 you and to me: The time now is when ye shall do the works that the Master did; when ye shall take the word of God and heal the sick. cleanse the leper, cast out evil. and raise the dead in the name of Truth.
 We shall have every one of these things to do, either here or here after. in the self-same way that
 Jesus did them. whether we want to
 or not. because there is no way
 whereby we may enter the kingdom
 save through him. If, he is the
 way" and the only way, then you
 and l can reach that kingdom of God which is within by doing what
 he did and as he did, to the ac-
 cOmplishment of our individual sal
 vatiOn in the manner that Jesus indi-
 cated.
 Universal Belief Cannot Alter Facts.
 What about this belief of sin. dis ease and death being real? A uni
 versal belief is not any more q flun- datiOn for fact than is the belief of a single person. To illustrate, let me call your attention to the time Of Columbus. You remember that he was treated with scorn and contempt and cast into prison because ne stood up before the wise men of his time and said that every one of their scientific deductions. all of their sci entific theses, all their scientific eX periments to prove that this earth is flat were worthless. because the earth is q sphere. Who was right? Colum- bus was right. of course. and the wise men were all wrong What effect did the universal false belief have on the shape of the earth? None what ever. The earth continued tO be a sphere just the same What effect did the false belief have on the peO- pie who believed it to be true2 So long as the people believed the false belief to be true, they were held within the marrow confines of that belief, and stayed on that little speck of the earth's surface because they feared that if they sailed beyond a certain point they would fall off the edge of the earth on to something or nothing on whichAtlas did or did not stand when he did or did not hold up the earth.
 For ages those who have deemed themselves wise in religious matters have held the world in the grip of the belief that God Is either directly or indirectly responsible for sin. and death: and until we break that false belief. until We turn away from it as the Prophet Ezekiel implored the Israelites to do when he said. Turn ye, turn ye from your. evil ways; for why will ye die We shall continue to sin. we shall con tinue to be sick. and continue to die God. as the supposed creator of good and evil. of life and death, sin and disease, is not the God of the Chris tian Scientists, nor is He the God of the Inspired Scriptures, which teach tilil ne IS tHc SdiIie ytSltTudS, tbudN. and forever without variableness or shadow of turning. The letters C. s. stand not only for Christian Sci ence, but for common sense as well, and it is common sense, because 1t is my sense and your sense; it is sense that belongs to all of us; and Christian Scientists have nothing that is not yours; they are simply putting to use what non Christian Scientists are letting lie dormant in their thought.
 Life and Death Opposites.
 If God is changeless. how could He give life and at the same time give death? When life was existent what would become of death, and when death was existent what would be- come of life? If God created them, they must both be as eternal as their creator. How can they both exist eternaily when one manifests the ab sence of the other as certainly as light annihilates darkness?
 The Bible tells us that death is the wage of sin. Do we believe it? The Bible does not say that in one case death is the wage of sin and that in another case it is the wage of goodness. It makes the unqualified statement that the wages of sin is death" If God created death, He