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remedies in drugs, no material medicine.

Do I believe in a personal G.o.d?

I believe in G.o.d as the Supreme Being. I know not what the person of omnipotence and omnipresence is, or what the infinite includes; therefore, I wors.h.i.+p that [10]

of which I can conceive, first, as a loving Father and Mother; then, as thought ascends the scale of being to diviner consciousness, G.o.d becomes to me, as to the apostle who declared it, ”G.o.d is Love,”-divine Prin- ciple,-which I wors.h.i.+p; and ”after the manner of my [15]

fathers, so wors.h.i.+p I G.o.d.”

Do I believe in the atonement of Christ?

I do; and this atonement becomes more to me since it includes man's redemption from sickness as well as from sin. I reverence and adore Christ as never before. [20]

It brings to my sense, and to the sense of all who enter- tain this understanding of the Science of G.o.d, a _whole_ salvation.

How is the healing done in Christian Science?

This answer includes too much to give you any con- [25]

clusive idea in a brief explanation. I can name some means by which it is not done.

It is not one mind acting upon another mind; it is not the transference of human images of thought to other minds; it is not supported by the evidence before [30]

the personal senses,-Science contradicts this evidence; it is not of the flesh, but of the Spirit. It is Christ come

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to destroy the power of the flesh; it is Truth over error; [1]

that understood, gives man ability to rise above the evi- dence of the senses, take hold of the eternal energies of Truth, and destroy mortal discord with immortal har- mony,-the grand verities of being. It is not one mortal [5]

thought transmitted to another's thought from the human mind that holds within itself all evil.

Our Master said of one of his students, ”He is a devil,”

and repudiated the idea of casting out devils through Beelzebub. Erring human mind is by no means a de- [10]

sirable or efficacious healer. Such suppositional healing I deprecate. It is in no way allied to divine power. All human control is animal magnetism, more despicable than all other methods of treating disease.

Christian Science is not a remedy of faith alone, but [15]

combines faith with understanding, through which we may touch the hem of His garment; and know that om- nipotence has all power. ”I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no G.o.d beside me.”

Is there a personal man? [20]

The Scriptures inform us that man was made in the image and likeness of G.o.d. I commend the Icelandic translation: ”He created man in the image and likeness of Mind, in the image and likeness of Mind created He him.” To my sense, we have not seen all of man; [25]

he is more than personal sense can cognize, who is the image and likeness of the infinite. I have not seen a perfect man in mind or body,-and such must be the personality of him who is the true likeness: the lost image is not this personality, and corporeal man is this [30]

lost image; hence, it doth not appear what is the real personality of man. The only cause for making this

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question of personality a point, or of any importance, is [1]

that man's perfect model should be held in mind, whereby to improve his present condition; that his contemplation regarding himself should turn away from inharmony, sick- ness, and sin, to that which is the image of his Maker. [5]

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