Who can say what the absolute personality of God or man is?  Who living hath seen God or a perfect man?  In presence of such thoughts take off thy shoes and tread lightly, for this is holy ground.  Surely the probation of mortals must go on after the change called death, that they may learn the definition of immortal being; or else their present mistakes would extinguish human existence.  How long this false sense remains after the transition called death, no mortal knoweth; but this is sure, that the mists of error, sooner or later, will melt in the fervent heat of suffering, mortality will burst the barriers of sense, and man be found perfect and eternal.  Of his intermediate conditions—­the purifying processes and terrible revolutions necessary to effect this end—­I am ignorant.

Inasmuch as these momentous facts in the Science of being must be learned some time, now is the most acceptable time for beginning the lesson.  If Science is pointing the way, and is found to bring with it health, holiness, and immortality, then to-day is none too soon for entering this path.  The proof that Christian Science is the way of salvation given by Christ, I consider well established.  The present, as well as the future, reveals the fact that Truth is never understood too soon.

Has Truth, as demonstrated by Jesus, reappeared?  Study Christian Science and practise it, and you will know that Truth has reappeared.  What is demonstrably true cannot be gainsaid; but getting the letter and omitting the spirit of this Science is neither the comprehension of its Principle nor the practice of its Life.

HAS MAN A SOUL?

The Scriptures inform us that “the soul that sinneth, it shall die.”  Here soul means sense and organic life; and this passage refers to the Jewish law, that a mortal should be put to death for his own sin, but not for another’s.  Not Soul, but mortal sense, sins and dies.  Immortal man has immortal Soul and a deathless sense of being.  Mortal man has but a false sense of Soul and body.  He believes that Spirit, or Soul, exists in matter.  This is pantheism, and is not the Science of Soul.  The mind-quacks have so slight a knowledge of Soul that they believe material and sinning sense to be soul; and then they doctor this soul as if it were not even a material sense.

In Dr. Gordon’s sermon on The Ministry of Healing, he said, “The forgiven soul in a sick body is not half a man.”  Is this pantheistic statement sound theology,—­that Soul is in matter, and the immortal part of man a sinner?  Is not this a disparagement of the person of man and a denial of God’s power?  Better far that we impute such doctrines to mortal opinion than to the divine Word.

To my sense, such a statement is a shocking reflection on the divine power.  A mortal pardoned by God is not sick, he is made whole.  He in whom sin, disease, and death are destroyed, is more than a fraction of himself.  Such sermons, though clad in soft raiment, are spiritless waifs, literary driftwood on the ocean of thought; while Truth walks triumphantly over the waves of sin, sickness, and death.