tsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in
heaven." The misinterpretation of such passages has retarded the progress
of Christianity and the spiritualization of the race.

A magistrate's pardon may encourage a criminal to repeat the offense;
because _forgiveness_, in the popular sense of the word, can neither
extinguish a crime nor the motives leading to it. The belief in sin--its
pleasure, pain, or power--must suffer, until it is self-destroyed.
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS SIN?

Frequently when I touch this subject my meaning is ignorantly or
maliciously misconstrued. Christian Science Mind-healing lifts with a
steady arm, and cleaves sin with a broad battle-axe. It gives the lie to
sin, in the spirit of Truth; but other theories make sin true. Jesus
declared that the devil was "a liar, and the father of it." A lie is
negation,--_alias_ nothing, or the opposite of something. Good is great and
real. Hence its opposite, named _evil_, must be small and unreal. When this
sense is attained, we shall no longer be the servants of sin, and shall
cease to love it.

The domination of good destroys the sense of evil. To illustrate: It seems
a great evil to belie and belittle Christian Science, and persecute a Cause
which is healing its thousands and rapidly diminishing the percentage of
sin. But reduce this evil to its lowest terms, _nothing_, and slander
loses its power to harm; for even the wrath of man shall praise Him. The
reduction of evil, in Science, gives the dominance to God, and must lead us
to bless those who curse, that thus we may overcome evil with good.

If the Bible and my work Science and Health had their rightful place in
schools of learning, they would revolutionize the world by advancing the
kingdom of Christ. It requires sacrifice, struggle, prayer, and
watchfulness to understand and demonstrate what these volumes teach,
because they involve divine Science, with fixed Principle, a given rule,
and unmistakable proof.

IS THERE NO SACRIFICIAL ATONEMENT?

Self-sacrifice is the highway to heaven. The sacrifice of our blessed Lord
is undeniable, and it was a million times greater than the brief agony of
the cross; for that would have been insufficient to insure the glory his
sacrifice brought and the good it wrought. The spilling of human blood was
inadequate to represent the blood of Christ, the outpouring love that
sustains man's