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THE SCIENCE OF CORRESPONDENCE.

those who have confirmed themselves in the appropriation of them. The rejection of evils by a denial of them in the thought, is no rejection nor removal of them; but the acknowledgment that they are from hell and the repudiation of them as belonging to evil spirits, is both a rejection and removal of them, for then the Lord's redeeming power operates by the Word to remove the evil spirits and thus the source and inspiration of the evils. This is Christianity; and known and embraced in the will, and practiced in the day's life, faithfully to the end, it is a Christian Science indeed, omnipotent for eternal life, and for the organic removal of disorder by successive processes of actual life, and the promotion of health in natural life also. The formula of its practice is laid down by Swedenborg as follows in the Doctrine of Life:

I. All religion has relation to the life, and the life of religion is to do good.
II. No one can do good, which is good, from himself.
III. So far as a man shuns evils as sins he does good, not from himself, but from the Lord.
1. If a man wills and does good before he