“His hand is not shortened that it cannot save,” can [1] never be wrested from its true meaning to signify human hands. Jesus’ first effort to realize Truth was not wholly successful; but he rose to the occasion with the second attempt, and the blind saw clearly. To suppose that [5] Jesus did actually anoint the blind man’s eyes with his spittle, is as absurd as to think, according to the report of some, that Christian Scientists sit in back-to-back seances with their patients, for the divine power to filter from vertebræ to vertebræ. When one comes to the age [10] with spiritual translations of God’s messages, expressed in literal or physical terms, our right action is not to con- demn and deny, but to “try the spirits” and see what manner they are of. This does not mean communing with spirits supposed to have departed from the earth, [15] but the seeking out of the basis upon which are accom- plished the works by which the new teacher would prove his right to be heard. By these signs are the true disciples of the Master known: the sick are healed; to the poor the gospel is preached. [20] Extract From A Sermon Delivered In Boston, January 18, 1885 TEXT: _The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman_ _took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened._—MATT. xiii. 33. Few people at present know aught of the Science of mental healing; and so many are obtruding upon the public attention their ignorance or false knowledge in the name of Science, that it behooves all clad in the shin- ing mail to keep bright their invincible armor; to keep [30] [Page 172.] their demonstrations modest, and their claims and lives [1] steadfast in Truth. Dispensing the Word charitably, but separating the tares from the wheat, let us declare the positive and the negative of metaphysical Science; what it is, and [5] what it is not. Intrepid, self-oblivious Protestants in a higher sense than ever before, let us meet and defeat the claims of sense and sin, regardless of the bans or clans pouring in their fire upon us; and white-winged charity, brooding over all, shall cover with her feathers [10] the veriest sinner. Divine and unerring Mind measures man, until the three measures be accomplished, and he arrives at fulness of stature; for “the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” [15] Science is divine: it is neither of human origin nor of human direction. That which is termed “natural science,” the evidences whereof are taken in by the five personal senses, presents but a finite, feeble sense of the infinite law of God; which law is written on the heart, received [20] through the affections, spiritually understood, and dem- onstrated in our lives. This law of God is the Science of mental healing, spiritually discerned, understood, and obeyed.