naming nothing and which we desire neither to honor nor to fear.
Medical theories virtually admit the nothingness of hallucinations, even while treating them as disease; and who objects: to this? Ought we not, then, to approve e any cure, which is effected by making the disease appear to be — what it really is — an illusion?
Here is the difficulty: it is not generally understood how one disease can be just as much a delusion as another. It All disease a delusion is a pity that the medical faculty and clergy have not learned this, for Jesus established this foundational fact, when devils, delusions, were cast out and the dumb spake.
Are we irreverent towards sin, or imputing too much power to God, when we ascribe to Him almighty Life Elimination of sickness and Love? I deny His cooperation with evil, because I desire to have no faith in evil or in any power but God, good. Is it not well to eliminate from so-called mortal mind that which, so long as it remains in mortal mind, will show itself in forms of sin, sickness, and death? Instead of tenaciously defending the supposed rights of disease, while complaining of the suffering disease brings, would it not be well to abandon the defence, especially when by so doing our own condition can be improved and that of other persons as well?
I have never supposed the world would immediately witness the full fruitage of Christian Science, or that sin, Full fruitage yet to come disease, and death would not be believed for an indefinite time; but this I do aver, that, as a result of teaching Christian Science, ethics and temperance have received an impulse, health has been restored, and longevity increased. If such are the pres-
