Man is seen only in the true likeness of his Maker. Believing a lie veils the truth from our vision; even as in mathematics, in summing up positive and negative [10] quantities, the negative quantity offsets an equal positive quantity, making the aggregate positive, or true quantity, by that much, less available. _Why do Christian Scientists hold that their theology is_ _essential to heal the sick, when the mind-cure claims to heal_ [15] _without it?_ The theology of Christian Science is Truth; opposed to which is the error of sickness, sin, and death, that Truth destroys. A “mind-cure” is a matter-cure. An adherent to this [20] method honestly acknowledges this fact in her work entitled “Mind-cure on a Material Basis.” In that work the author grapples with Christian Science, attempts to solve its divine Principle by the rule of human mind, fails, and ends in a parody on this Science which is amus- [25] ing to astute readers,—especially when she tells them that she is practising this Science. The theology of Christian Science is based on the action of the divine Mind over the human mind and body; whereas, “mind-cure” rests on the notion that the human [30] mind can cure its own disease, or that which it causes, [Page 63.] and the _sickness of matter_,—which is infidel in the one [1] case, and anomalous in the other. It was said of old by Truth-traducers, that Jesus healed through Beelzebub; but the claim that one erring mind cures another one was at first gotten up to hinder his benign influence and to hide [5] his divine power. Our Master understood that Life, Truth, Love are the triune Principle of all pure theology; also, that this divine trinity is one infinite remedy for the opposite triad, sick- ness, sin, and death. [10] _If there is no sin, why did Jesus come to save sinners?_ If there is no reality in sickness, why does a Chris- tian Scientist go to the bedside and address himself to the healing of disease, on the basis of its unreality? Jesus came to seek and to save such as believe in the [15] reality of the unreal; to save them from _this false belief_; that they might lay hold of eternal Life, the great reality that concerns man, and understand the final fact,—that God is omnipotent and omnipresent; yea, “that the Lord He is God; there is none else beside Him,” as the Scrip- [20] tures declare. _If Christ was God, why did Jesus cry out, __“__My God,_ _why hast Thou forsaken me?__”_ Even as the struggling heart, reaching toward a higher goal, appeals to its hope and faith, Why failest thou [25] me? Jesus as the son of man was human: Christ as the Son of God was divine. This divinity was reaching humanity through the crucifixion of the human,—that momentous demonstration of God, in which Spirit proved its supremacy over matter. Jesus assumed for mortals the [30] [Page 64.]