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throwing the judicial proceedings of a regularly constituted court.

But Judge Justice, of the Supreme Court of Spirit, overruled their motions, on the ground that unjust usages are not allowed at the bar of Truth, which ranks above the lower Court of Error.

The attorney, Christian Science, then read from the Ruling of justice. supreme statute-book, the Bible, — remarking that it was better authority than Blackstone, — certain extracts on the Rights of Man:—

Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, and let him have dominion over all the earth.

And I give you power over all things, that nothing shall by any means harm you.

Whoso believeth in Me shall not see death.

Then Christian Science proved the witness, Nerve, to be a perjurer. Instead of a ruler in the Province of Nerve a liar. Body, wherein Mortal Man was reported to reside, Nerve was an insubordinate citizen, putting in false claims to office, and bearing false witness against Man. Turning suddenly to Personal Sense (by this time silent) Christian Science continued:—

I ask your arrest, in the name of Almighty God, on three separate counts: perjury, treason, and conspiracy against the rights and existence of man.

Then Christian Science continued:—

Another witness, equally unimportant, said that a garment of foul fur was spread over him by Morbid Secretion, on the night

of the liver-attack; while the facts in the case show that this