s is hampered
by material terms, which must be used to indicate thoughts that are to be
understood metaphysically. As a Science, this system is held back by the
common ignorance of what it is and what it does, and (worse still) by those
who come falsely in its name. To be appreciated, Science must be understood
and conscientiously introduced. If the Bible and Science and Health had the
place in schools of learning that physiology occupies, they would
revolutionize and reform the world, through the power of Christ. It is true
that it requires more study to understand and demonstrate what these works
teach, than to learn theology, physiology, or physics; because they teach
divine Science, with fixed Principle, given rule, and unmistakable proof.

Ancient and modern human philosophy are inadequate to grasp the Principle
of Christian Science, or to demonstrate it. Revelation shows this
Principle, and will rescue reason from the thrall of error. Revelation must
subdue the sophistry of intellect, and spiritualize consciousness with the
dictum and the demonstration of Truth and Love. Christian Science
Mind-healing can only be gained by working from a purely Christian
standpoint. Then it heals the sick and exalts the race. The essence of this
Science is right thinking and right acting--leading us to see spirituality
and to be spiritual, to understand and to demonstrate God.

The Massachusetts Metaphysical College and Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston, were the outgrowth of the author's religious experience. After a
lifetime of orthodoxy on the platform of doctrines, rites, and ceremonies,
it became a sacred duty for her to impart to others this new-old knowledge
of God.

The same affection, desire, and motives which have stimulated true
Christianity in all ages, and given impulse to goodness, in or out of the
Church, have nerved her purpose to build on the new-born conception of the
Christ, as Jesus declared himself,--namely, "the way, the truth, and the
life." Living a true life, casting out evil, healing the sick, and
preaching the gospel of Truth,--these are the ends of Christianity. This
divine way impels a spiritualization of thought and method, beyond doctrine
and ritual; and in nothing else has she departed from the old landmarks.

The unveiled spiritual signification of the Word so enlarges our sense of
God that it makes both sense and Soul, man and Life, immaterial, though
still individual. It removes all limits