If God is the Principle of man (and He is), man is the idea of God; and this idea cannot fail to express the ex- act nature of its Principle,—any more than goodness, to present the quality of good. Human hypotheses are always human vagaries, formulated views antagonistic [30] [Page 79.] to the divine order and the nature of Deity. All these [1] mortal beliefs will be purged and dissolved in the cru- cible of Truth, and the places once knowing them will know them no more forever, having been swept clean by the winds of history. The grand verities of Science [5] will sift the chaff from the wheat, until it is clear to hu- man comprehension that man was, and is, God’s perfect likeness, that reflects all whereby we can know God. In Him we live, move, and have being. Man’s origin and existence being in Him, man is the ultimatum of per- [10] fection, and by no means the medium of imperfection. Immortal man is the eternal idea of Truth, that cannot lapse into a mortal belief or error concerning himself and his origin: he cannot get out of the focal distance of infinity. If God is upright and eternal, man as His like- [15] ness is erect in goodness and perpetual in Life, Truth, and Love. If the great cause is perfect, its effect is per- fect also; and cause and effect in Science are immutable and immortal. A mortal who is sinning, sick, and dying, is not immortal man; and never was, and never can be, [20] God’s image and likeness, the true ideal of immortal man’s divine Principle. The spiritual man is that per- fect and unfallen likeness, coexistent and coeternal with God. “As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” [25] _What course should Christian Scientists take in regard_ _to aiding persons brought before the courts for violation of_ _medical statutes?_ Beware of joining any medical league which in any way obligates you to assist—because they chance to be [30] under arrest—vendors of patent pills, mesmerists, [Page 80.] occultists, sellers of impure literature, and authors of [1] spurious works on mental healing. By rendering error such a service, you lose much more than can be gained by mere unity on the single issue of opposition to unjust medical laws. [5] A league which obligates its members to give money and influence in support and defense of medical char- latans in general, and possibly to aid individual rights in a wrong direction—which Christian Science eschews —should be avoided. Anybody and everybody, who [10] will fight the medical faculty, can join this league. It is better to be friendly with cultured and conscientious medical men, who leave Christian Science to rise or fall on its own merit or demerit, than to affiliate with a wrong class of people. [15]