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heals the sick and causes the wicked to "forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts." It was our Master's
'theology which the impious sought to destroy.
(Marvels and reformations)
From beginning to end, the Scriptures are full of
accounts of the triumph of Spirit, Mind, over matter.
Moses proved the power of Mind by what men
called miracles; so did Joshua, Elijah, and
Elisha. The Christian era was ushered in with signs and
wonders. Reforms have commonly been attended with
bloodshed and persecution, even when the end has been
brightness and peace; but the present new, yet old, reform
in religious faith will teach men patiently and wisely
to stem the tide of sectarian bitterness, whenever it flows
inward.
(Science obscured)
The decisions by vote of Church Councils as to what
should and should not be considered Holy Writ; the manifest
mistakes in the ancient versions; the
thirty thousand different readings in the Old
Testament, and the three hundred thousand in the New,
- these facts show how a mortal and material sense stole
into the divine record, with its own hue darkening to some
extent the inspired pages. But mistakes could neither
wholly obscure the divine Science of the Scriptures seen
from Genesis to Revelation, mar the demonstration of
Jesus, nor annul the healing by the prophets, who foresaw
that "the stone which the builders rejected" would become
"the head of the corner."
(Opponents benefited)
Atheism, pantheism, theosophy, and agnosticism are
opposed to Christian Science, as they are to ordinary religion;
but it does not follow that the profane
or atheistic invalid cannot be healed by Christian
Science. The moral condition of such a man demands
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