Christian Science reveals the fact that, if suffering exists, it is in the mortal mind only, for matter has no sensation and cannot suffer.

If you rule out every sense of disease and suffering from mortal mind, it cannot be found in the body.

Posterity will have the right to demand that Christian Science be stated and demonstrated in its godliness and grandeur,—­that however little be taught or learned, that little shall be right.  Let there be milk for babes, but let not the milk be adulterated.  Unless this method be pursued, the Science of Christian healing will again be lost, and human suffering will increase.

Test Christian Science by its effect on society, and you will find that the views here set forth—­as to the illusion of sin, sickness, and death—­bring forth better fruits of health, righteousness, and Life, than a belief in their reality has ever done.  A demonstration of the unreality of evil destroys evil.

SIN, SINNER, AND ECCLESIASTICISM

Why do Christian Scientists say God and His idea are the only realities, and then insist on the need of healing sickness and sin?  Because Christian Science heals sin as it heals sickness, by establishing the recognition that God is All, and there is none beside Him,—­that all is good, and there is in reality no evil, neither sickness nor sin.  We attack the sinner’s belief in the pleasure of sin, alias the reality of sin, which makes him a sinner, in order to destroy this belief and save him from sin; and we attack the belief of the sick in the reality of sickness, in order to heal them.  When we deny the authority of sin, we begin to sap it; for this denunciation must precede its destruction.

God is good, hence goodness is something, for it represents God, the Life of man.  Its opposite, nothing, named evil, is nothing but a conspiracy against man’s Life and goodness.  Do you not feel bound to expose this conspiracy, and so to save man from it?  Whosoever covers iniquity becomes accessory to it.  Sin, as a claim, is more dangerous than sickness, more subtle, more difficult to heal.

St. Augustine once said, “The devil is but the ape of God.”  Sin is worse than sickness; but recollect that it encourages sin to say, “There is no sin,” and leave the subject there.

Sin ultimates in sinner, and in this sense they are one.  You cannot separate sin from the sinner, nor the sinner from his sin.  The sin is the sinner, and vice versa, for such is the unity of evil; and together both sinner and sin will be destroyed by the supremacy of good.  This, however, does not annihilate man, for to efface sin, alias the sinner, brings to light, makes apparent, the real man, even God’s “image and likeness.”  Need it be said that any opposite theory is heterodox to divine Science, which teaches that good is equally one and all, even as the opposite claim of evil is one.