stration of its rules will plant you more firmly on its spiritual groundwork. This will lift you high above the perishing fossils of theories already antiquated, and enable you to grasp the spiritual facts of Being, hitherto unattained and seemingly dim.
Our Master healed the sick, practised Christian healing, and taught the generalities of its divine Principle to Rules needed. his students; but he left no definite rule for demonstrating his Principle of healing and preventing disease. This remained to be discovered through Christian Science. A pure affection takes form in goodness, but Science alone reveals its Principle and demonstrates its rules.
Jesus never spoke of disease as dangerous, or difficult to treat. When his students brought to him cases Jesus' own practice. they had failed to heal, he said unto them, “Oh ye of little faith!” implying that the requisite power was in Mind. He prescribed no drugs, urged no obedience to material laws, but acted in direct disobedience thereto.
Neither anatomy nor theology has ever described man as created by Spirit, — as God's man. The former The man of anatomy and of theology. explains the man of men, or the “children of men,” as created corporeally instead of spiritually, and as emerging from the lowest, instead of from the highest, conception of Being. Each defines man as both physical and mental, and places mind at the mercy of matter, for every function, formation, and manifestation. Anatomy takes man up at all points materially. It loses Spirit, drops the true tone, and accepts the discord. Both reject the divine Principle which produces harmonious man, and deal — the one wholly, the
