From Genesis to Revelation the Scriptures teach an infinite God, and none beside Him; and on this basis Messiah and prophet saved the sinner and raised the dead,—­uplifting the human understanding, buried in a false sense of being.  Jesus rendered null and void whatever is unlike God; but he could not have done this if error and sin existed in the Mind of God.  What God knows, He also predestinates; and it must be fulfilled.  Jesus proved to perfection, so far as this could be done in that age, what Christian Science is to-day proving in a small degree,—­the falsity of the evidence of the material senses that sin, sickness, and death are sensible claims, and that God substantiates their evidence by knowing their claim.  He established the only true idealism on the basis that God is All, and He is good, and good is Spirit; hence there is no intelligent sin, evil mind or matter:  and this is the only true philosophy and realism.  This divine mystery of godliness was the rock of Truth, on which he built his Church of the new-born, against which the gates of hell cannot prevail.

This Truth is the rock which the builders rejected; but “the same is become the head of the corner.”  This is the chief corner-stone, the basis and support of creation, the interpreter of one God, the infinity and unity of good.

In proportion as mortals approximate the understanding of Christian Science, they take hold of harmony, and material incumbrance disappears.  Having one God, one Mind, one consciousness,—­which includes only His own nature,—­and loving your neighbor as yourself, constitute Christian Science, which must demonstrate the nothingness of any other state or stage of being.

IS THERE NO INTERCESSORY PRAYER?

All prayer that is desire is intercessory; but kindling desire loses a part of its purest spirituality if the lips try to express it.  It is a truism that we can think more lucidly and profoundly than we can write or speak.  The silent intercession and unvoiced imploring is an honest and potent prayer to heal and save.  The audible prayer may be offered to be heard of men, though ostensibly to catch God’s ear,—­after the fashion of Baal’s prophets,—­by speaking loud enough to be heard; but when the heart prays, and not the lips, no dishonesty or vanity influences the petition.

Prophet and apostle have glorified God in secret prayer, and He has rewarded them openly.  Prayer can neither change God, nor bring His designs into mortal modes; but it can and does change our modes and our false sense of Life, Love, and Truth, uplifting us to Him.  Such prayer humiliates, purifies, and quickens activity, in the direction that is unerring.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.  Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.  Prayer begets an awakened desire to be and do good.  It makes new and scientific discoveries of God, of His goodness and power.  It shows us more clearly than we saw before, what we already have and are; and most of all, it shows us what God is.  Advancing in this light, we reflect it; and this light reveals the pure Mind-pictures, in silent prayer, even as photography grasps the solar light to portray the face of pleasant thought.