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to his students was healing, and he proved his faith by
his works. The ancient Christians were healers. Why
has this element of Christianity been lost?
Because our systems of religion are governed
more or less by our systems of medicine. The first idolatry
was faith in matter. The schools have rendered
faith in drugs the fashion, rather than faith in Deity. By
trusting matter to destroy its own discord, health and
harmony have been sacrificed. Such systems are barren
of the vitality of spiritual power, by which material sense
is made the servant of Science and religion becomes
Christlike.
(Drugs and divinity)
Material medicine substitutes drugs for the power of
God-even the might of Mind-to heal the body.
Scholasticism clings for salvation to the person,
instead of to the divine Principle, of the
man Jesus; and his Science, the curative agent of God,
is silenced. Why? Because truth divests material drugs
of their imaginary power, and clothes Spirit with
supremacy. Science is the "stranger that is within thy gates,"
remembered not, even when its elevating effects practically
prove its divine origin and efficacy.
(Christian Science as old as God)
Divine Science derives its sanction from the Bible,
and the divine origin of Science is demonstrated through
the holy influence of Truth in healing sickness
and sin. This healing power of Truth
must have been far anterior to the period in
which Jesus lived. It is as ancient as "the Ancient of
days." It lives through all Life, and extends throughout
all space.
(Reduction to system)
Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a
form comprehensible by and adapted to the thought of
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