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 doubt? Or why should he oppose? If it be found that these healing works are not possible the teacbing will not long endure. But if it be true that the sick are healed and sinners re- formed, nothing but good has resulted or can result.
 THE ERROR OF LIMITING GOD. Mortal belief would limit Gods
 power, or at least His willingness, to help humanity, but when God is un- derstood. it will be seen that Ills
 power is infinite and His willingness to preserve the eternal harmony is not to be questioned. According to the word of Isaiah it is mortal belief
 which seems to limit the power of good and separate man from God: At one time it was believed to be Gods will for certain persons to re- l main in bondage to sin and pay the penalty therefor, not only for time, but throughout eternity; but such a l belief no longer has place in any religious doctrine. Today there is clearer realization of God as one ! "who will have all men to be saved. and to come into the knowledge of l he truth" God has not changed, but there has been a decided change in ] the human belief in God as pertains l to the salvation of men from sin. | There are other errors of belief
 which prevent the attainment of good. The teaching that sickness and sui l! fering are to be overcome only by the use of material remedies or through l obedience to material health laws, l infers that God either cannot, or will
 not, heal the sick as in the days of | old. So long as this belief is enter tained, it will be impossible to have l that faith in Gods willingness to heal l that was manifest in the lives of the l carly Christians. But thought is un- | dergoing change in this respect. and the time will come when the belief l that it is Gods will for man to suffer ! and die, will have no more place in
 accepted religious teaching than has 1 the doctrine of predestination and l foreordinatlol today.
 CHRISTIANITY IS SCIENTIFIC. The Christian religion is less than l two thousand years old. according to 1 the human calendar of time. It is, l however, but the fuller unfolding to l human consciousness of the essential | idea of Gods oneness and omnipotence l which had appeared in all ages as men were spiritually minded enough 1 to perceive it. Moses and the prophets
 recorded the truth as it was revealed I to them Jesus declared he was not come to destroy. or set aside. the law 1 and the prophets, but to fulfill, i. e. further to unfold the spiritual idea and to demonstrate the truth of being which others had seen afar off. The early Christians were capable of many good works because thought was quickened and faith in God be- came a vital force instead of blind belief. Because they had gained some understanding of Truth, as presented by the great demonstration of divine 1 law and order. the disciples were not in bondage to the belief in evil as were those who turned a deaf ear to the teachings of the Master. or failed to grasp their spiritual import. The true idea of God and man is the Science of Christianity. When this Science is understood there can be no question as to whether the healing of disease is as divinely natural as the overcoming of sin.
 Spiritual understanding is as effec- tual now as it was in the beginning of the Christian era. Even greater
 works should follow because men ] test the practical worth of those teachings which present the highest concept of God and man.
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DIS.
 WvERED.
 The Science of Christianity Is CO., existent and co-eternal with Truth. l However, from a human point of view, Christian Science is discovery. | and the discovery was made by one who was mentally fitted and spirit ! ually endowed for the important work of presenting this higher revelation ! of Truth in such manner that hu- maaity could understand and put it 1 into practice. Some fifty wears ago. Mary Baker ! Eddy discovered that the healing
 works accomplished by the disciples 1 of Jesus, were divinely natural ex- l periences aud in no sense involved the setting aside of law and order. as was generally supposed. Throughout
 all ages the sick have been restored
 to health through faith in God and the
 fulfillment of His promises. but it re-
 mained for Mrs Eddy to discover the
 Science of Christian healing and to ! formulate the rules which make possi-
 hle practical application of this