As Mind they are real, but not as matter. All beauty 6 and goodness are in and of Mind, emanating from God; but when we change the nature of beauty and goodness from Mind to matter, the beauty is marred, through a 9 false conception, and, to the material senses, evil takes the place of good. Has not the truth in Christian Science met a response 12 from Prof. S. P. Langley, the young American astronomer? He says that "color is in _us_," not "in the rose;" and he adds that this is not "any metaphysical subtlety," but a 15 fact "almost universally accepted, within the _last few_ _years_, by physicists." _Is not the basis of Mind-healing a destruction of the evi-_ 18 _dence of the material senses, and restoration of the true_ _evidence of spiritual sense?_ It is, so far as you perceive and understand this predi- 21 cate and postulate of Mind-healing; but the Science of Mind-healing is best understood in practical demonstra- tion. The proof of what you apprehend, in the simplest 24 definite and absolute form of healing, can alone answer this question of how much you understand of Christian Science Mind-healing. Not that all healing is Science, 1 by any means; but that the simplest case, healed in Science, is as demonstrably scientific, in a small degree, as the most 3 difficult case so treated. The infinite and subtler conceptions and consistencies of Christian Science are set forth in my work Science and 6 Health. _Is man material or spiritual?_ In Science, man is the manifest reflection of God, per- 9 feet and immortal Mind. He is the likeness of God; and His likeness would be lost if inverted or perverted. According to the evidence of the so-called physical 12 senses, man is material, fallen, sick, depraved, mortal. Science and spiritual sense contradict this, and they afford the only true evidence of the being of God and man, the 15 material evidence being wholly false. Jesus said of personal evil, that "the truth abode not in him," because there is no material sense. Matter, as 18 matter, has neither sensation nor personal intelligence. As a pretension to be Mind, matter is a lie, and "the father of lies;" Mind is not in matter, and Spirit cannot 21 originate its opposite, named matter. According to divine Science, Spirit no more changes its species, by evolving matter from Spirit, than natural 24 science, so-called, or material laws, bring about altera- tion of species by transforming minerals into vegetables or plants into animals, -- thus confusing and confounding 27 the three great kingdoms. No rock brings forth an apple; 1 no pine-tree produces a mammal or provides breast-milk for babes. 3