a. False realistic views sap the
Science of Principle and idea; they make Deity unreal [15]
and inconceivable, either as mind or matter; but Truth
comes to the rescue of reason and immortality, and unfolds
the real nature of God and the universe to the spiri-
ual sense, which beareth witness of things spiritual, and
not material. [20]

To begin with, the notion of Spirit as cause and end,
with matter as its effect, is more ridiculous than the "grin
without a cat;" for a grin expresses the nature of a cat,
and this nature may linger in memory: but matter does
not express the nature of Spirit, and matter's graven [25]
grins are neither eliminated nor retained by Spirit. What
can illustrate Dr. ----'s views better than Pat's echo,
when he said "How do you do?" and echo answered,
"Pretty well, I thank you!"

Dr. ---- says: "The recognition of teleology in nature [30]
is necessarily the recognition of purely spiritual personality
in God."

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According to lexicography, teleology is the science of [1]
the final cause of things; and divine Science (and all
Science is divine) neither reveals God in matter, cause
in effect, nor teaches that nature and her laws are the
_material_ universe, or that the personality of infinite Spirit [5]
is finite or material. Jesus said, "Ye do err, not know-
ing the Scriptures, nor the power of God." Now, what
saith the Scripture? "God is a Spirit: and they that
worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in
truth." [10]

Mental Practice

It is admitted that mortals think wickedly and act
wickedly: it is beginning to be seen by thinkers, that
mortals think also after a sickly fashion. In common
parlance, one person feels sick, another feels wicked. A [15]
third person knows that if he would remove this feeling
in either case, in the one he must change his patient's
consciousness of dis-ease and suffering to a consciousness
of ease and loss of suffering; while in the other he must
change the patient's sense of sinning at ease to a sense of [20]
discomfort in sin and peace in goodness.

This is Christian Science: that mortal mind makes
sick, and immortal Mind makes well; that mortal mind
makes sinners, while immortal Mind makes saints; that
a state of health is but a state of consciousness made mani- [25]
fest on the body, and _vice versa_; that while one person
feels wickedly and acts wickedly, another knows that if
he can change this evil sense and consciousness