Our thinkers do not die early because they faithfully perform the natural functions of being. If printers and 387:15 authors have the shortest span of earthly ex- istence, it is not because they occupy the most important posts and perform the most vital functions in 387:18 society. That man does not pay the severest penalty who does the most good. By adhering to the realities of eternal existence, - instead of reading disquisitions on 387:21 the inconsistent supposition that death comes in obedience to the law of life, and that God punishes man for doing good, - one cannot suffer as the result of any labor of 387:24 love, but grows stronger because of it. It is a law of so- called mortal mind, misnamed matter, which causes all things discordant. Christian history 387:27 The history of Christianity furnishes sublime proofs of the supporting influence and protecting power bestowed on man by his heavenly Father, omnipotent 387:30 Mind, who gives man faith and understanding whereby to defend himself, not only from temptation, but from bodily suffering. 388:1 The Christian martyrs were prophets of Christian Science. Through the uplifting and consecrating power 388:3 of divine Truth, they obtained a victory over the corpo- real senses, a victory which Science alone can explain. Stolidity, which is a resisting state of mortal mind, suffers 388:6 less, only because it knows less of material law. The Apostle John testified to the divine basis of Chris- tian Science, when dire inflictions failed to destroy his 388:9 body. Idolaters, believing in more than one mind, had "gods many," and thought that they could kill the body with matter, independently of mind. Sustenance spiritual 388:12 Admit the common hypothesis that food is the nutri- ment of life, and the follows the necessity for another admission in the opposite direction, - that 388:15 food has power to destroy Life, God, through a deficiency or an excess, a quality or a quantity. This is a specimen of the ambiguous nature of all material 388:18 health-theories. They are self-contradictory and self-de- structive, constituting a "kingdom divided against itself," which is "brought to desolation." If food was prepared 388:21 by Jesus for his disciples, it cannot destroy life. God sustains man