What is the relative value of the two conflicting the- 355:15 ories regarding Christian healing? One, according to the commands of our Master, heals the sick. The other, popular religion, declines to admit that Christ's religion 355:18 has exercised any systematic healing power since the first century. Conditions of criticism The statement that the teachings of Christian Sci- 355:21 ence in this work are "absolutely false, and the most egregious fallacies ever offered for accept- ance," is an opinion wholly due to a misap- 355:24 prehension both of the divine Principle and practice of Christian Science and to a consequent inability to demon- strate this Science. Without this understanding, no one 355:27 is capable of impartial or correct criticism, because demon- stration and spiritual understanding are God's immortal keynotes, proved to be such by our Master and evidenced 355:30 by the sick who are cured and by the sinners who are reformed. Weakness of material theories Strangely enough, we ask for material theories in sup- 356:1 port of spiritual and eternal truths, when the two are so antagonistic that the material thought must become spir- 356:3 itualized before the spiritual fact is attained. So-called material existence affords no evidence theories of spiritual existence and immortality. Sin, 356:6 sickness, and death do not prove man's entity or immor- tality. Discord can never establish the facts of harmony. Matter is not the vestibule of Spirit. Irreconciliable differences 356:9 Jesus reasoned on this subject practically, and con- trolled sickness, sin, and death on the basis of his spir- ituality. Understanding the nothingness of 356:12 material things, he spoke of flesh and Spirit as the two opposites, - as error and Truth, not contrib- uting in any way to each other's happiness and existence. 356:15 Jesus knew, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." Copartnership impossible There is neither a present nor an eternal copartner- 356:18 ship between error and Truth, between flesh and Spirit. God is as incapable of producing sin, sick- ness, and death as He is of experiencing these 356:21 errors. How then is it possible for Him to create man subject to this triad of errors, - man who is made in the divine likeness? 356:24 Does God create a material man out of Himself, Spirit? Does evil proceed from good? Does divine Love com- mit a fraud on humanity by making man inclined to sin, 356:27 and then punishing him for it? Would any one call it wise and good to create the primitive, and then punish its derivative?