the context. These terms stand for everything relating to God as Principle, — as the unerring, supreme, Terms used. eternal Mind. It may be said, however, that the term Christian Science relates especially to this Science as applied to humanity. It reveals God, not as the author of sin, sickness, and death, but as divine Principle, supreme Being, Mind, exempt from all evil. It teaches that matter is the falsity, not the fact, of existence; that nerves, brain, stomach, lungs, have — as matter — no intelligence, life, or sensation.
There is no physical science, inasmuch as all true Science proceeds from divine Intelligence. Science cannot No physical science. therefore be human, and is not a law of matter; for matter is not a lawgiver. Science is an emanation of eternal Mind, and is alone able to interpret Truth aright. It has a spiritual, and not a material origin. It is a divine utterance, the Comforter which leadeth into all Truth.
Christian Science eschews what is called natural science, in so far as this is built on the false hypotheses that matter is its own lawgiver, that law is founded on material conditions, and that these are final, and overrule the might of divine Mind. Good is natural and primitive. It is not miraculous to itself.
The term Science, properly understood, refers only to the laws of God, and His government of the universe, Practicality. inclusive of man. From this it naturally follows that business men have found that Christian Science enhances their physical and mental powers, enlarges their perception of character, gives them acuteness and comprehensiveness, and an ability to exceed their ordinary business capacity. The human
