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528 Popular Bibles gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning. My weary- hope tries to reahze that happy day, when man shall recognize the Science of Christ and love his neighbour as himself, — when he shall realize God's omnipotence and the healing power of the divine Love in what it has done and is doing for mankind. The promises will be fulfilled. The time for the reappearing of the divine healing is throughout all time; and whosoever layeth his earthly all on the altar of divine Science, drinketh of Christ's cup now, and is imbued with the spirit and power of Christian healing." {Science and Health, p. 55.) "The divine Love, which made harmless the poisonous viper, which delivered men from the boiling oil, from the fiery furnace, from the jaws of the lion, can heal the sick in every age and triumph over sin and death. It crowned the demon- strations of Jesus with unsurpassed power and love. But the same 'Mind . . . which was also in Christ Jesus' must al- ways accompany the letter of Science in order to confirm and repeat the ancient demonstrations of prophets and apostles." {Science and Health, p. 243.) "The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honoured systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and cold conven- tionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith." {Science and Health, Preface, p. vii.) "Christian Science exterminates the drug, and rests on Mind alone as the curative Principle, acknowledging that the divine Mind has all power." {Science and Health, p. I57-) "The divine Principle of the First Commandment bases the Science of being, by which man demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal. One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, 'Love thy neighbour as thyself'; annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry — whatever is wrong in social civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed." {Science and Health, P- 340.) ' ' No human pen nor tonguft taught me the Science contained