Paradisaical rest from physical agony would come to the criminal, if the dream of dying should startle him from the dream of suffering. The paradise of Spirit would come to Jesus, in a spiritual sense of Life and [15] power. Christ Jesus lived and reappeared. He was too good to die; for goodness is immortal. The thief was not equal to the demands of the hour; but sin was de- stroying itself, and had already begun to die,—as the poor thief’s prayer for help indicated. The dy- [20] ing malefactor and our Lord were inevitably sepa- rated through Mind. The thief’s body, as matter, must dissolve into its native nothingness; whereas the body of the holy Spirit of Jesus was eternal. That day the thief would be with Jesus only in a finite [25] and material sense of relief; while our Lord would soon be rising to the supremacy of Spirit, working out, even in the silent tomb, those wonderful demon- strations of divine power, in which none could equal his glory. [30] [Page 71.] _Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely_ [1] _well myself?_ The late John B. Gough is said to have suffered from an appetite for alcoholic drink until his death; yet he saved many a drunkard from this fatal appetite. Paul [5] had a thorn in the flesh: one writer thinks that he was troubled with rheumatism, and another that he had sore eyes; but this is certain, that he healed others who were sick. It is unquestionably right to do right; and heal- ing the sick is a very right thing to do. [10] _Does Christian Science set aside the law of transmission,_ _prenatal desires, and good or bad influences on the unborn_ _child?_ Science never averts law, but supports it. All actual causation must interpret omnipotence, the all-knowing [15] Mind. Law brings out Truth, not error; unfolds divine Principle,—but neither human hypothesis nor matter. Errors are based on a mortal or material formation; they are suppositional modes, not the factors of divine presence and power. [20] Whatever is humanly conceived is a departure from divine law; hence its mythical origin and certain end. According to the Scriptures,—St. Paul declares astutely, “For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things,”—man is incapable of originating; nothing can [25] be formed apart from God, good, the all-knowing Mind. What seems to be of human origin is the counterfeit of the divine,—even human concepts, mortal shadows flitting across the dial of time. Whatever is real is right and eternal; hence the im- [30] mutable and just law of Science, that God is good only, [Page 72.] and can transmit to man and the universe nothing evil, [1] or unlike Himself. For the innocent babe to be born a lifelong sufferer because of his parents’ mistakes or sins, were sore injustice. Science sets aside man as a creator, and unfolds the eternal harmonies of the only living and [5] true origin, God.