I never knew a person who knowingly indulged evil, to be grateful; to understand me, or himself. He must first see himself and the hallucination of sin; then he [5] must repent, and love good in order to understand God. The sinner and the sin are the twain that are one flesh,— but which God hath not joined together. CHAPTER IV. ADDRESSES. [Page 95.] Christian Science In Tremont Temple. From the platform of the Monday lectureship in [2] Tremont Temple, on Monday, March 16, 1885, as will be seen by what follows. Reverend Mary Baker G. Eddy was presented to Mr. Cook’s audience, and allowed [5] ten minutes in which to reply to his public letter con- demning her doctrines; which reply was taken in full by a shorthand reporter who was present, and is transcribed below. Mrs. Eddy responding, said:— [10] As the time so kindly allotted me is insufficient for even a synopsis of Christian Science, I shall confine my- self to questions and answers. Am I a spiritualist? I am not, and never was. I understand the impossi- [15] bility of intercommunion between the so-called dead and living. There have always attended my life phenomena of an uncommon order, which spiritualists have mis- called mediumship; but I clearly understand that no human agencies were employed,—that the divine Mind [20] reveals itself to humanity through spiritual law. And to such as are “waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body,” Christian Science reveals the in- [Page 96.] finitude of divinity and the way of man’s salvation from [1] sickness and death, as wrought out by Jesus, who robbed the grave of victory and death of its sting. I understand that God is an ever-present help in all times of trouble,— have found Him so; and would have no other gods, no [5] remedies in drugs, no material medicine. Do I believe in a personal God? I believe in God as the Supreme Being. I know not what the person of omnipotence and omnipresence is, or what the infinite includes; therefore, I worship that [10] of which I can conceive, first, as a loving Father and Mother; then, as thought ascends the scale of being to diviner consciousness, God becomes to me, as to the apostle who declared it, “God is Love,”—divine Prin- ciple,—which I worship; and “after the manner of my [15] fathers, so worship I God.” Do I believe in the atonement of Christ? I do; and this atonement becomes more to me since it includes man’s redemption from sickness as well as from sin. I reverence and adore Christ as never before. [20] It brings to my sense, and to the sense of all who enter- tain this understanding of the Science of God, a _whole_ salvation. How is the healing done in Christian Science? This answer includes too much to give you any con- [25] clusive idea in a brief explanation. I can name some means by which it is not done.