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demonstrated or proved by the annihilation of the alleged un- 

 reality. The affirmation of the absolute supremacy of Mind is 

 not stated as a theory, but is accompanied by plain rules, com- 

 prehensible to any fair intelligence, by which this supremacy can 

 be verified in an endless progression. This authority over the 

 supposed conditions of matter was first completely demonstrated 

 by Jesus. It is the Science of the life of Jesus, in its supremacy 

 over matter and its beliefs of sin and sickness, that is set forth in 

 " Science and Health." 



No one knows, or can learn, any more of this Science than he 

 has demonstrated — that is, lived. The students of natural science 

 will not find unreasonable the declaration of an humble beginner 

 in this Science, that no one is entitled to sit as a judge on it who 

 has not either gone through with the demonstrations as set forth 

 by its Founder, according to her directions, or until he can show 

 by experience that when the rules of the Science are followed the 

 results are not invariable. 



This position was forcibly stated in a review of it that ap- 

 peared the year following the publication of "Science and 

 Health," as follows : " Why do you assail her for individual opin- 

 ions and beliefs ? That is not the ground she occupies. She 

 declares that what she states is not her own. It is Science left 

 subject to proof, based upon Principle, governed by given rules, 

 the demonstration whereof she leaves for you. It is for you to 

 decide whether it is Science or not : now who can answer that 

 question who doesn't understand Science ? " 



Enough has been said to show that healing in Christian Sci- 

 ence is very different from the fanciful representation given of it 

 by the writer in the April "Monthly." Physical healing is a 

 necessary and useful incident, not a factor, in the scheme of 

 Christian Science. The operation of the healing power is as 

 clearly defined and as tangible in consciousness, just as amenable 

 to law — vastly more so to one reasonably well instructed — as are 

 the phenomena involved in the operation of natural law on the 

 plane of visible effects. 



The writer in the April " Monthly " could not tell its readers 

 what Christian Science is, precisely because it is Science, and can 

 not be learned or picked up by curiously turning over the leaves 

 of " Science and Health," from odd paragraphs in the daily papers, 

 or from the loose gossip that circulates in the lower atmosphere 

 of human thought. 



For the ungenerous and unworthy statements reflecting on the 

 personal character and motives of the founder of Christian Sci- 

 ence, these words of hers from the great text-book of Science shall 

 make the only answer : 



" In founding this system of ethics and medicine I have labored 



