the very opposite of that Maker, by claiming that God is [1] Spirit, while man is matter; that God is good, but man is evil; that Deity is deathless, but man dies. Science and sense conflict, from the revolving of worlds to the death of a sparrow. The Word will be made flesh and dwell among mortals, only when man reflects God in body as well as in mind. The child born of a woman has the formation of his parents; the man born of Spirit is spiritual, not material. Paul refers to this when speaking of presenting our bodies [10] holy and acceptable, which is our reasonable service; and this brings to remembrance the Hebrew strain, “Who healeth all thy diseases.” If man should say of the power to be perfect which he possesses, “I am the power,” he would trespass upon [15] divine Science, yield to material sense, and lose his power; even as when saying, “I have the power to sin and be sick,” and persisting in believing that he is sick and a sinner. If he says, “I am of God, therefore good,” yet persists in evil, he has denied the power of Truth, and [20] must suffer for this error until he learns that all power is good because it is of God, and so destroys his self-de- ceived sense of power in evil. The Science of being gives back the lost likeness and power of God as the seal of man’s adoption. Oh, for that light and love ineffable, [25] which casteth out all fear, all sin, sickness, and death; that seeketh not her own, but another’s good; that saith Abba, Father, and _is_ born of God! John came baptizing with water. He employed a type of physical cleanliness to foreshadow metaphysical purity, [30] even mortal mind purged of the animal and human, and submerged in the humane and divine, giving back the [Page 185.] lost sense of man in unity with, and reflecting, his Maker. [1] None but the pure in heart shall see God,—shall be able to discern fully and demonstrate fairly the divine Principle of Christian Science. The will of God, or power of Spirit, is made manifest as Truth, and through righteousness,— [5] not as or through matter,—and it strips matter of all claims, abilities or disabilities, pains or pleasures. Self- renunciation of all that constitutes a so-called material man, and the acknowledgment and achievement of his spiritual identity as the child of God, is Science that [10] opens the very flood-gates of heaven; whence good flows into every avenue of being, cleansing mortals of all uncleanness, destroying all suffering, and demon- strating the true image and likeness. There is no other way under heaven whereby we can be saved, and man [15] be clothed with might, majesty, and immortality.