The author became a member of the orthodox Con- 351:9 gregational Church in early years. Later she learned that her own prayers failed to heal her as did the prayers of her devout parents and the church; but when the 351:12 spiritual sense of the creed was discerned in the Science of Christianity, this spiritual sense was a/ present help/. It was the living, palpitating presence of Christ, Truth, which 351:15 healed the sick. Fatal premises We cannot bring out the practical proof of Christianity, which Jesus required, while error seems as potent and 351:18 real to us as Truth, and while we make a per- sonal devil and an anthropomorphic God our starting-points, - especially if we consider Satan as a 351:21 being coequal in power with Deity, if not superior to Him. Because such starting-points are neither spiritual nor scientific, they cannot work out the Spirit-rule of Christian 351:24 healing, which proves the nothingness of error, discord, by demonstrating the all-inclusiveness of harmonious Truth. Fruitless worship 351:27 The Israelites centred their thoughts on the material in their attempted worship of the spiritual. To them matter was substance, and Spirit was shadow. 351:30 They thought to worship Spirit from a ma- terial standpoint, but this was impossible. They might appeal to Jehovah, but their prayer brought down no 352:1 proof that it was heard, because they did not sufficiently understand God to be able to demonstrate His power 352:3 to heal, - to make harmony the reality and discord the unreality. Spirit the tangible Our Master declared that his material body was not 352:6 spirit, evidently considering it a mortal and material be- lief of flesh and bones, whereas the Jews took a diametrically opposite view. To Jesus, not 352:9 materiality, but spirituality, was the reality of man's ex- istence, while to the rabbis the spiritual was the intangi- ble and uncertain, if not the unreal. Ghosts not realities 352:12 Would a mother say to her child, who is frightened at imaginary ghosts and sick in consequence of the fear: "I know that ghosts are real. They exist, 352:15 and are to be feared; but you must not be afraid of them"?