Unconstitutional and unjust coercive legislation and laws, infringing individual rights, must be “of few days, and full of trouble.” The _vox populi_, through the provi- dence of God, promotes and impels all true reform; and, at the best time, will redress wrongs and rectify injus- [20] tice. Tyranny can thrive but feebly under our Govern- ment. God reigns, and will “turn and overturn” until right is found supreme. In a certain sense, we should commiserate the lot of regular doctors, who, in successive generations for cen- [25] turies, have planted and sown and reaped in the fields of what they deem pathology, hygiene, and therapeutics, but are now elbowed by a new school of practitioners, outdoing the healing of the old. The old will not patronize the new school, at least not until it shall come to understand [30] the medical system of the new. Christian Science Mind-healing rests demonstrably on [Page 81.] the broad and sure foundation of Science; and this is [1] not the basis of _materia medica_, as some of the most skil- ful and scholarly physicians openly admit. To prevent all unpleasant and unchristian action—as we drift, by right of God’s dear love, into more spiritual [5] lines of life—let each society of practitioners, the matter- physicians and the metaphysicians, agree to disagree, and then patiently wait on God to decide, as surely He will, which is the true system of medicine. _Do we not see in the commonly accepted teachings of the_ [10] _day, the Christ-idea mingled with the teachings of John_ _the Baptist? or, rather, Are not the last eighteen centuries_ _but the footsteps of Truth being baptized of John, and com-_ _ing up straightway out of the ceremonial (or ritualistic)_ _waters to receive the benediction of an honored Father, and_ [15] _afterwards to go up into the wilderness, in order to over-_ _come mortal sense, before it shall go forth into all the cities_ _and towns of Judea, or see many of the people from beyond_ _Jordan? Now, if all this be a fair or correct view of this_ _question, why does not John hear this voice, or see the_ [20] _dove,—or has not Truth yet reached the shore?_ Every individual character, like the individual John the Baptist, at some date must cry in the desert of earthly joy; and his voice be heard divinely and humanly. In the desolation of human understanding, [25] divine Love hears and answers the human call for help; and the voice of Truth utters the divine verities of being which deliver mortals out of the depths of ignorance and vice. This _is_ the Father’s benediction. It gives lessons to human life, guides the understanding, peoples [30] [Page 82.] the mind with spiritual ideas, reconstructs the Judean [1] religion, and reveals God and man as the Principle and idea of all good.