Who wants to be mortal, or would not gain the true ideal of Life and recover his own individuality? I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of [30] good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error. On this rests the [Page 105.] implicit faith engendered by Christian Science, which [1] appeals intelligently to the facts of man’s spirituality, in- dividuality, to disdain the fears and destroy the discords of this material personality. On our Master’s individual demonstrations over sin, [5] sickness, and death, rested the anathema of priesthood and the senses; yet this demonstration is the foundation of Christian Science. His physical sufferings, which came from the testimony of the senses, were over when he resumed his individual spiritual being, after showing [10] us the way to escape from the material body. Science would have no conflict with Life or common sense, if this sense were consistently sensible. Man’s real life or existence is in harmony with Life and its glorious phenomena. It upholds being, and destroys the too [15] common sense of its opposites—death, disease, and sin. Christian Science is an everlasting victor, and vanquish- ment is unknown to the omnipresent Truth. I must ever follow this line of light and battle. Christian Science is my only ideal; and the individual [20] and his ideal can never be severed. If either is misunder- stood or maligned, it eclipses the other with the shadow cast by this error. Truth destroys error. Nothing appears to the physi- cal senses but their own subjective state of thought. The [25] senses join issue with error, and pity what has no right either to be pitied or to exist, and what does not exist in Science. Destroy the thought of sin, sickness, death, and you destroy their existence. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” [30] Because God is Mind, and this Mind is good, all is good and all is Mind. God is the sum total of the [Page 106.] universe. Then what and where are sin, sickness, and [1] death? Christian Science and Christian Scientists will, _must_, have a history; and if I could write the history in poor parody on Tennyson’s grand verse, it would read [5] thus:— Traitors to right of them, M. D.’s to left of them, Priestcraft in front of them, Volleyed and thundered! [10] Into the jaws of hate, Out through the door of Love, On to the blest above, Marched the one hundred. Extract From My First Address In The Mother Church, May 26, 1895 _Friends and Brethren_:—Your Sunday Lesson, com- posed of Scripture and its correlative in “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” has fed you. In addi- [20] tion, I can only bring crumbs fallen from this table of Truth, and gather up the fragments.