ty of sin, sickness,
or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human,
erring belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not true,
because they are not of God. We learn in Christian Science that all
inharmony of mortal mind and body is illusion.' Again, 'Sin, sickness,
and death are to be classified as effects of error' (pages 472 and
473)" read Robert.

"I wonder what I am made of," said Jake's boy, John, "if I have no
brain, blood, or bones. When the bay filly threw me last winter and
broke my arm I thought I was part bone. And a lot of blood ran from my
foot the time I cut it with the ax, at least they called it blood."

"Now, let us get Mrs. Eddy's definition of God," said Robert. "'What
is God? Answer--God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind,
Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.'"

"Let us notice her definition of Mind," continued Robert. "'Mind
is God,' she says. Let us draw forth some of the Christian Science
principles and stand them up for inspection.

"1. Man is not matter; he has not brains, blood, or bones.

"2. Man is incapable of sin.

"3. Man is incapable of sickness.

"4. Man is incapable of death.

"5. Sin, sickness, and death are errors.

"6. God is Mind, Principle.

"7. Mind is God.

"8. Sickness is a dream.

"9. Sickness, sin, and death are 'mortal dreams.'

"10. 'There is no disease' (Science and Health, p. 421).

"11. 'Death is the illusion' (Science and Health, p. 428).

"Now, over and against these statements of Christian Science, let us
place the immutable Word of God.

"1. Man is not matter; he is not brains, blood, or bones.

"The very first word in inspiration contradicts this principle in
Christian Science. 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth' (Gen. 1:1). The creation of man contradicts Christian Science.
Listen--'And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
soul.' (Gen. 2:7).

"So there is such a thing as man composed of matter such as body, and
blood, and bones.

"2. Man is incapable of sin.

"Let us see what the Bible says of this proposition," continued
Robert.

"'For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God' (Rom. 3:23).

"'Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures' (1 Cor. 15:3).

"'He shall save his people from their sins' (Matt. 1:21).

"3. Man is incapable of sickness.

"'Is any sick