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A few immortal sentences, stimulated by justice, have broken fetters and abolished whipping posts and slave markets. Tyranny will go down in blood, and the breath of Freedom come from the cannon's mouth.

" For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh. "— Rom.

It is often remarked by professing Christians, who know little of what we as Christian Scientists profess, and less of what we understand, that we are unsound in faith and doctrine,—that we are led astray through the fallacious belief that Christ, Truth, heals the sick as well as the sinner; which is, so far, just what we do believe; and moreover, it is what we understand to be true. And being verified every day in demonstration, why should we doubt its truthfulness? It is certainly true that Jesus while on earth, and as our exempler, in his office of love and mercy, left us as many examples of his power to heal sickness as sin ; and sent his disciples into the world armed with the same power and to perform the mission, wherein he gave them charge to heal the sick and cast out devils, sin.

Any question which practically interests disciples, because it is closely linked to the interpretation of the Word, or to a godly life, we have no right nor power to dismiss, as of trifling importance. We may not avoid or evade an answer, though we may frame a hasty reply, or pelt with merciless sneers those who, in an age of degeneracy and apostacy, seek to gratify and satisfy a spiritual craving for full knowledge of the Truth.

To be known of men is to have a reputation, a possession which may belong to animate or inanimate objects. Personal reputation is based on the capacity to ascend above, or descend below, the ordinary range of human ability in some special line, while material objects are held in more or less repute, according to prevailing fashions rather than for any intrinsic values.

Anatomists , physiologists, physicians, and all students of what they term the "human organization," have spent more time and effort in their search for "life," than any other problem connected with existence; indeed, in the case of every investigator who has gone beyond the merely superficial, all other investigations have really been tributary to the great question. The amount of investigation expended in more recent years upon the brain, and nervous system and their action,—because the idea has prevailed that they were more intimately connected with "mind" or "life" than any of the other organs,—may be called, without much exaggeration, incalculable.

Since it has been my privilege to undertake the teaching of Christian Science, the following question, in some form or other, has been put to me so frequently, that I prepared the following answer, never thinking, for one moment, that it will be conclusive to all, for the discernment of the Truth, "that all is Mind; there is no matter," is not arrived at merely by a process of intellectual reasoning; but by a spiritual perception therewith. As so many have kindly said this method of reasoning has been a great help to them, it is now given to the public, with the hope that it may be of as much service to others.

Like all great truths in unfamiliar garb, Christian Science, too, must pass through the trying ordeal of being forced to run the criticizing gauntlet of the worldly-wise and skeptical. Though the struggle thus far has been one freighted with difficulties from within, as well as from without—for man is brought to accept plain truth and spiritual sight with great reluctance—we have much to encourage us, and be thankful for, in the knowledge that, through the sincerity and earnestness of many of its loving disciples, it has reached that point in the thoughts of the intelligent world,—from having made its influence felt,—where a discussion of its claims by unbelievers is no longer accompanied with scoff and ridicule.

Take a heretic, a rebel, a person that hath an ill cause to manage ; what he is deficient in the strength of his cause he makes up with diligence ; while he that hath right on his side is cold, indiligent, lazy, inactive, trusting that the goodness of his cause will not fail to prevail without assistance. So wrong prevails, while evil persons are jealous, and the good remiss.

Enduring Temptation against Political Prohibition We can never too strongly emphasize the necessity of the culture of self-control and moral power to resist all temptation. He who is sinless only because untempted, is not sinless.