personare_ is compounded of
the prefix _per_ (through) and _sonare_ (to sound). 15

In law, Blackstone applies the word _personal_ to _bodily
presence_, in distinction from one's appearance (in court,
for example) by deputy or proxy. 18

Other definitions of _person_, as give by Webster, are 1
"a living soul; a self-conscious being; a moral agent;
especially, a living human being, a corporeal man, woman, 3
or child; an individual of the human race." He adds,
that among Trinitarian Christians the word stands for one
of the three subjects, or agents, constituting the Godhead. 6

In Christian Science we learn that God is definitely indi-
vidual and not a _person_, as that word is used by the best
authorities, if our lexicographers are right in defining 9
_person_ as especially a finite _human being_; but God is
personal, if by _person_ is meant infinite Spirit.

We do not conceive rightly of God, if we think of Him 12
as less than infinite. The human person is finite; and
therefore I prefer to retain the proper sense of Diety by
using the phrase _an individual_ God rather than _a per- 15
sonal_ God; for there is and can be but on infinite indi-
vidual spirit, who mortals have named God.

Science defines the individuality of God as supreme 18
good, Life, Truth, Love. This term enlarges our sense
of Diety, takes away the trammels assigned to God by
finite though, and introduces us to higher definitions. 21

_Is healing the sick the whole of Science?_

Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Chris-
tian Science. It is only the bugle-call to thought and 24
action, in the higher range of infinite goodness. The
emphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of
sin; and this task, sometimes, may be harder than the 27
cure of disease; because, while mortals love to sin, they 1
do not love to be sick. Hence their comparative acqui-
escence in your endeavors to heal them of bodily ills, and 3
their obstinate resistance to all efforts to save them from
sin through Christ, spiritual Truth and Love, which
redeem them, and become their Saviour, through the 6
flesh, from the flesh, -- the material world and evil.

This Life, Truth, and Love -- this trinity of good -- was
individualized, to the perception of mortal sense, in the 9
man Jesus. His history