s and sin have no relapse. God's law
reaches and destroys evil by virtue of the allness of God.

He need not know the evil He destroys, any more than the legislator need
know the criminal who is punished by the law enacted. God's law is in three
words, "I am All;" and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim
of another law. God pities our woes with the love of a Father for His
child,--not by becoming human, and knowing sin, or naught, but by removing
our knowledge of what is not. He could not destroy our woes totally if He
possessed any knowledge of them. His sympathy is divine, not human. It is
Truth's knowledge of its own infinitude which forbids the genuine existence
of even a claim to error. This knowledge is light wherein there is no
darkness,--not light holding darkness within itself. The consciousness of
light is like the eternal law of God, revealing Him and nothing else.

Sympathy with sin, sorrow, and sickness would dethrone God as Truth, for
Truth has no sympathy for error. In Science, the cure of the sick
demonstrates this grand verity of Christian Science, that you cannot
eradicate disease if you admit that God sends it or sees it. Material and
mortal mind-healing (so-called) has for ages been a pretender, but has not
healed mortals; and they are yet sick and sinful.

Disease and sin appear to-day in subtler forms than they did yesterday.
They progress and will multiply into worse forms, until it is understood
that disease and sin are unreal, _unknown_ to Truth, and never actual
persons or real facts.

Our phraseology varies. To me _divine pardon_ is that divine presence which
is the sure destruction of sin; and I insist on the destruction of sin as
the only full proof of its pardon. "For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might _destroy_ the works of the devil" (1 John iii.
8).

Jesus cast out evils, mediating between what is and is not, until a perfect
consciousness is attained. He healed disease as he healed sin; but he
treated them both, not as in or of matter, but as mortal beliefs to be
exterminated. Physical and mental healing were one and the same with this
master Metaphysician. If the evils called sin, sickness, and death had been
forgiven in the generally accepted sense, they would have returned, to be
again forgiven; but Jesus said to disease: "Come out of him, and enter no
more into him." He said also: "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see
death;" and "Wha