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mony of the material senses. Which testimony is correct? The Bible says: "Let God be 3 true, and every man a liar." If, as the Scriptures imply, God is All-in-all, then all must be Mind, since God is Mind. Therefore in divine Science there is no material 6 mortal man, for man is spiritual and eternal, he being made in the image of Spirit, or God. There is no material sense. Matter is inert, inanimate, 9 and sensationless, -- considered apart from Mind. Lives there a man who has ever found Soul in the body or in matter, who has ever seen spiritual substance with the 12 eye, who has found sight in matter, hearing in the material ear, or intelligence in non-intelligence? If there is any such thing as matter, it must be either mind which is 15 called matter, or matter without Mind. Matter without Mind is a moral impossibility. Mind in matter is pantheism. Soul is the only real conscious- 18 ness which cognizes being. The body does not see, hear, smell, or taste. Human belief says that it does; but destroy this belief of seeing with the eye, and we could 21 not see materially; and so it is with each of the physical senses. Accepting the verdict of these material senses, we should 24 believe man and the universe to be the football of chance and sinking into oblivion. Destroy the five senses as organized matter, and you must either become non-exist- 27 ent, or exist in Mind only; and this latter conclusion is the simple solution of the problem of being, and leads to 1 the equal inference that there is no matter. _The sweet sounds and glories of earth and sky, assum-_ 3 _ing manifold forms and colors, -- are they not tangible and_ _material?_ As Mind they are real, but not as matter. All beauty 6 and goodness are in and of Mind, emanating from God; but when we change the nature of beauty and goodness from Mind to matter, the beauty is marred, through a 9 false conception, and, to the material senses, evil takes the place of good. Has not the truth in Christian Science met a response 12 from Prof. S. P. Langley, the young American astronomer? He says that "color is in _us_," not "in the rose;" and he adds that this is not "any metaphysical subtlety," but a 15 fact "almost universally accepted, within the _last few_ _years_, by physicists." _Is not the basis of Mind-heali
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