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HEALING AND TEACHING.
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Evil is the counterfeit of good, and seeks to equal it. The infinite Truth of the Christ-cure has come to this age through a “still, small voice,” through silent utterances that accelerate the active and beneficial effects of Christianity.

Sin's opposite error, and its method, appear at the same time. Because Truth is limitless, error strives to be thought unbounded. Because Truth is mighty to do good, error claims an equal right to work evil. The confidence inspired by Science lies in the secret that Truth is real and error unreal. Truth is the mighty, error is the powerless; and Divine Science demands that this age shall prove this. The greatest evil is but the opposite of the highest good. Both have come nearer than ever before to the apprehension of the minds of the world. Truth will remain; error will be self-destroyed through suffering.

A correct view of Christian Science, and its adaptation to healing, includes vastly more than one at first sees. Works on Metaphysics leave the grand point untouched. They never crown the mental power as the Messiah; nor do they carry the day against physical enemies, as Christian Science proposes to do, — even to the extinction of all belief in matter, and the insistence upon the fact that matter is nothing beyond an illusion.

Christian Science is fully stated in this work. Now apply it to the cure of disease, using no other aids.

I have set forth Christian Science, and its application to the treatment of disease, only as I have discovered them. I have demonstrated the effects of Truth on the health, longevity, and morals of men, through Mind, I have found nothing in ancient or in modern systems,