The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-05
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where he sees standard of business and success as eternal law, which can no more fail than the eternal God can fall. FEom this it follows that failure is only lost, and this is lost and swallowed up of light; hence nothing is lost and ev- erything is gained
 Christian Science lifts the mentally unbalanced and insane to sanity and mental balance; and thet we'll balanced and sane it lifts to standard of sanity and equilibrium of mind that can no more fail and be lost than God Himself could be lost; for God in Chrietjan Science is found to be Mind, the only true Mind. The so-called mortal or finite mind that can be lost Is no more Mind than darkness is light and is no more part of Mind than darkness Is 8 part of light, or wrong is part of right.
 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" As the problem in mathematics is found after the solution to be not only perfect and correct, but always to have been per feet and correct, likewise man in Chris tian Science is found after the solution of the problem not only to be perfect like the Father, but always to have been perfect; that the errors of human beIier never were true any more than the errors of the mathematical problem were true. There is nothing supernat- aral or far-fetched in the Science of our own being. It is not hypothetical or speculative: 1t is the religion that re- veals the scientific and natural relation between God and man, between Principle and its expression, between cause and effect.
 ADMITS OF NO ERROR
 Christian Science unlike every other religion, admits of no error either in premise or conclusion. God and His creation always were perfect, are now, and forever will be. Christian Science comes to this material age and throws the X-ray of spiritual and scientific un- derstanding upon all material thinos; revealing them to be merely mortal thoughts which have no more existence or reality than the horizon that is seen over the mountain. And with the elim- ination of all these things, necessarily vanish all their concomitants, sickness disease, and sin, mortality and death and everything that in any way limits seems to limit everlasting Life or is opposed to God and His perfect spiritual creation.
 Christian Science is not essentially iconoclasm. It does not break images, tear down altars, and break up churches clans and societies; neither does it use the old as foundation upon which to construct the new. It educates out ot the old into the new; out of the lower into the higher; out of the false into the true. The Science of Truth. like the garment of Christ, is a seamless robe woven throughout from top to bottom, complete in itself Nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it; and nothing can be true that is not included in it. It does all for mankind, because it is all and includes all; in it mankind and the world will find all their needs cun iod all hair f,,r filed
 But the laws of God are not the laws of mortal mind or of matter. The so- called laws of health are no more the laws of God than the law of evil Is the law of God, or the law of wrong is the law of right. The so-called laws of health which civilization makes and breaks and yet builds upon. are as changeable and unreliable as the wind that blows: they are all built on the shifting sands of physical observation conjecture. doubt, and fear, having no principle or foundation in fact. The divine law of health. which is the law of life, that is the law of God, Is as changeless, immutable, pure, and perfect as the eternal God Himself T
 Christian Science shows that the error of the ages is in having two powers, one of good and the other of evil; and this belief beclouds the eye of reason, shuts out the true sense of being, and robs man of his God-given inheritance This belief, in belief, makes man mortal in- stead of spiritual; makes man subordi- nate to every beast of the field, every fowl of the air and every plant that springs out of the earth: makes man slave instead of a master
 When a man begins to see himself as a child of God, a child of Spirit rather than child of the dust, then he begins to take poSSeSxiOD If hfmaalf in fha name of Almighty God, and to claim his birthright of heaith happiness, harmony and immortality. He then begins to take dominion over the beast of the field, and over the fish of the sea, the fGwl of the air, and over everything that "creepeth upon the earth;" but this do- minion is not expressed in the power of might, of physical strength and mortal cruelty, but in the power of love, k.nd-