agnosticism, pantheism, theosophy, spiritualism, or millenarianism and the demonstrable truths of Christian Mystical antagonists Science; and I find the will, or sensuous reason of the human mind, to be opposed to the divine Mind as expressed through divine Science.
Christian Science is natural, but not physical. The Science of God and man is no more supernatural than Optical illustration of Science is the science of numbers, though departing from the realm of the physical, as the Science of God, Spirit, must, some may deny its right to the name of Science. The Principle of divine metaphysics is God; the practice of divine metaphysics is the utilization of the power of Truth over error; its rules demonstrate its Science. Divine metaphysics reverses perverted and physical hypotheses as to Deity, even as the explanation of optics rejects the incidental or inverted image and shows what this inverted image is meant to represent.
A prize of one hundred pounds, offered in Oxford University, England, for the best essay on Natural Science, Pertinent proposal — an essay calculated to offset the tendency of the age to attribute physical effects to physical causes rather than to a final spiritual cause, — is one of many incidents which show that Christian Science meets a yearning of the human race for spirituality.
After a lengthy examination of my discovery and its demonstration in healing the sick, this fact became Confirmatory tests evident to me, — that Mind governs the body, not partially but wholly. I submitted my metaphysical system of treating disease to the broadest practical tests. Since then this system has gradually gained ground, and has proved itself, whenever scien-
