Chapter VIII - Footsteps Of Truth
The true healing
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must be obliterated through Christ in divine Science, or
must be obliterated through Christ in divine Science, or
the so-called physical senses will get the victory.
Destruction of all evil
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Unless an ill is rightly met and fairly overcome by
Unless an ill is rightly met and fairly overcome by
Truth, the ill is never conquered. If God destroys not
sin, sickness, and death, they are not de-
stroyed in the mind of mortals, but seem to
this so-called mind to be immortal. What God cannot
do, man need not attempt. If God heals not the sick,
they are not healed, for no lesser power equals the infinite
All-power; but God, Truth, Life, Love, does heal the
sick through the prayer of the righteous.
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If God makes sin, if good produces evil, if truth results
If God makes sin, if good produces evil, if truth results
in error, then Science and Christianity are helpless; but
there are no antagonistic powers nor laws, spiritual or
material, creating and governing man through perpetual
warfare. God is not the author of mortal discords.
Therefore we accept the conclusion that discords have
only a fabulous existence, are mortal beliefs which divine
Truth and Love destroy.
Superiority to sickness and sin
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To hold yourself superior to sin, because God made
To hold yourself superior to sin, because God made
you superior to it and governs man, is true wisdom. To
fear sin is to misunderstand the power of Love
and the divine Science of being in man's rela-
tion to God, – to doubt His government and
distrust His omnipotent care. To hold yourself superior
to sickness and death is equally wise, and is in accordance
with divine Science. To fear them is impossible, when
you fully apprehend God and know that they are no part
of His creation.
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Man, governed by his Maker, having no other Mind, –
Man, governed by his Maker, having no other Mind, –
planted on the Evangelist's statement that "all things
were made by Him [the Word of God]; and without
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Him was not anything made that was made," – can
Him was not anything made that was made," – can
triumph over sin, sickness, and death.
Denials of divine power
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Many theories relative to God and man neither make
Many theories relative to God and man neither make
man harmonious nor God lovable. The beliefs we com-
monly entertain about happiness and life
afford no scatheless and permanent evidence
of either. Security for the claims of harmonious and
eternal being is found only in divine Science.
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Scripture informs us that "with God all things are
Scripture informs us that "with God all things are
possible," – all good is possible to Spirit; but our prev-
alent theories practically deny this, and make healing
possible only through matter. These theories must be
untrue, for the Scripture is true. Christianity is not
false, but religions which contradict its Principle are
false.
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In our age Christianity is again demonstrating the
In our age Christianity is again demonstrating the
power of divine Principle, as it did over nineteen hun-
dred years ago, by healing the sick and triumphing over
death. Jesus never taught that drugs, food, air, and ex-
ercise could make a man healthy, or that they could de-
stroy human life; nor did he illustrate these errors by his
practice. He referred man's harmony to Mind, not to
matter, and never tried to make of none effect the sen-
tence of God, which sealed God's condemnation of sin,
sickness, and death.
Signs following
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In the sacred sanctuary of Truth are voices of sol-
In the sacred sanctuary of Truth are voices of sol-
emn import, but we heed them not. It is only when the
so-called pleasures and pains of sense pass
away in our lives, that we find unquestion-
able signs of the burial of error and the resurrection to
spiritual life.
Profession and proof
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There is neither place nor opportunity in Science for error
There is neither place nor opportunity in Science for error