out devils"! Christian Scientists, perhaps more than any other
religious sect, are obeying these commands; and the injunctions are not
confined to Jesus' students in that age, but they extend to this age,--to
as many as shall believe on him. The demand and example of Jesus were not
from beneath. Are frozen dogmas, persistent persecution, and the doctrine
of eternal damnation, from above? Are the dews of divine Truth, falling on
the sick and sinner, to heal them, from beneath? "By their fruits ye shall
know them."

Reading my books, without prejudice, would convince all that their purpose
is right. The comprehension of my teachings would enable any one to prove
these books to be filled with blessings for the whole human family.
Fatiguing Bible translations and voluminous commentaries are employed to
explain and prop old creeds, and they have the civil and religious arms in
their defense; then why should not these be equally extended to support the
Christianity that heals the sick? The notions of personality to be found in
creeds are far more mystic than Mind-healing. It is no easy matter to
believe there are three persons in one person, and that one person is cast
out of another person. These conceptions of Deity and devil presuppose an
impotent God and an incredible Satan.

IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PANTHEISTIC?

Christian Science refutes pantheism, finds Spirit neither in matter nor in
the modes of mortal mind. It shows that matter and mortal mind have neither
origin nor existence in the eternal Mind. Thinking otherwise is what
estranges mortals from divine Life and Love. God is All-in-all. He is
Spirit; and in nothing is He unlike Himself. Nothing that "worketh or
maketh a lie" is to be found in the divine consciousness. For God to know,
is to be; that is, what He knows must truly and eternally exist. If He
knows matter, and matter can exist in Mind, then mortality and discord must
be eternal. He is Mind; and whatever He knows is made manifest, and must be
Truth.

If God knows evil even as a false claim, this knowledge would manifest evil
in Him and proceeding from Him. Christian Science shows that matter, evil,
sin, sickness, and death are but negations of Spirit, Truth, and Life,
which are positives that cannot be gainsaid. The subjective states of evil,
called mortal mind or matter, are negatives destitute of time and space;
for there is none beside God or Spirit and the idea of Spirit.

This infinite logic is the