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THE SCIENCE OF CORRESPONDENCE.

thority, we have still to inquire whether the principle on which Christian Science claims to work with them is a valid one.

"Whoever can plant the absolute truth in the center of the human soul has a lever which can move, unconsciously to the individual, the will, the understanding, the imagination, the sensations, the brain, the heart, the lungs, the blood; and can determine the chemical or nutritive interchanges and metamorphoses of every molecule of the body.

Hence it is that divine truth renovates the spiritual character as surely as it remodels the physical system. It works from center to circumferences."—Page 47.

Can absolute or genuine truth, being known be planted at the center of a human soul "unconsciously to the individual?" Not by any human being; not at all in any other sense than that it is present from the Lord in the inmost—always and to eternity; and in the internal heavenly mind in the form of "remains," waiting to be consciously accepted by the individual acting in freedom according to the truths "of which his understanding is composed." The internal has no power to come forth except as the individual learns truths from the Word and consciously and freely determines his life according to them. If truth in the internal could work these wonders that the Doctor enumerates, the angels who are already associated with men and touching these spiritual "remains,"