and never can be, [20]
God's image and likeness, the true ideal of immortal
man's divine Principle. The spiritual man is that per-
fect and unfallen likeness, coexistent and coeternal with
God. "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be
made alive." [25]

_What course should Christian Scientists take in regard_
_to aiding persons brought before the courts for violation of_
_medical statutes?_

Beware of joining any medical league which in any
way obligates you to assist--because they chance to be [30]
under arrest--vendors of patent pills, mesmerists,

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occultists, sellers of impure literature, and authors of [1]
spurious works on mental healing. By rendering error
such a service, you lose much more than can be gained
by mere unity on the single issue of opposition to unjust
medical laws. [5]

A league which obligates its members to give money
and influence in support and defense of medical char-
latans in general, and possibly to aid individual rights
in a wrong direction--which Christian Science eschews
--should be avoided. Anybody and everybody, who [10]
will fight the medical faculty, can join this league. It is
better to be friendly with cultured and conscientious
medical men, who leave Christian Science to rise or fall
on its own merit or demerit, than to affiliate with a wrong
class of people. [15]

Unconstitutional and unjust coercive legislation and
laws, infringing individual rights, must be "of few days,
and full of trouble." The _vox populi_, through the provi-
dence of God, promotes and impels all true reform; and,
at the best time, will redress wrongs and rectify injus- [20]
tice. Tyranny can thrive but feebly under our Govern-
ment. God reigns, and will "turn and overturn" until
right is found supreme.

In a certain sense, we should commiserate the lot of
regular doctors, who, in successive generations for cen- [25]
turies, have planted and sown and reaped in the fields
of what they deem pathology, hygiene, and therapeutics,
but are now elbowed by a new school of practitioners,
outdoing the healing of the old. The old will not patronize
the new school, at least not until it shall come to understand [30]
the medical system of the new.

Christian Science Mind-healing rests demonstrably on

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the broad and sure foundation of Science; and this is [1]
not the basis of _materia medica_, as some of the most skil-
ful and scholarly physicians openly admit.

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