idity of that
statement. Sin and disease are not scientific, because they embody not the
idea of divine Principle, and are not the phenomena of the immutable laws
of God; and they do not arise from the divine consciousness and true
constituency of being.

The unreality of sin, disease, and death, rests on the exclusive truth that
being, to be eternal, must be harmonious. All disease must be--and can only
be--healed on this basis. All true Christian Scientists are vindicating,
fearlessly and honestly, the Principle of this grand verity of
Mind-healing.

In erring mortal thought the reality of Truth has an antipode,--the reality
of error; and disease is one of the severe realities of this error. God has
no opposite in Science. To Truth there is no error. As Truth alone is real,
then it follows that to declare error real would be to make it Truth.
Disease arises from a false and material sense, from the belief that matter
has sensation. Therefore this material sense, which is untrue, is of
necessity unreal. Moreover, this unreal sense substitutes for Truth an
unreal belief,--namely, that life and health are independent of God, and
dependent on material conditions. Material sense also avers that Spirit, or
Truth, cannot restore health and perpetuate life, but that material
conditions can and do destroy both human health and life.

If disease is as real as health, and is itself a state of being, and yet is
arrayed against being, then Mind, or God, does not meddle with it. Disease
becomes indeed a stubborn reality, and man is mortal. A "kingdom divided
against itself is brought to desolation;" therefore the mind that attacks a
normal and real condition of man, is profanely tampering with the realities
of God and His laws. Metaphysical healing is a lost jewel in this
misconception of reality. Any contradictory fusion of Truth with error, in
both theory and practice, prevents one from healing scientifically, and
makes the last state of one's patients worse than the first. If disease is
real it is not illusive, and it certainly would contradict the Science of
Mind-healing to attempt to destroy the realities of Mind in order to heal
the sick.

On the theory that God's formations are spiritual, harmonious, and eternal,
and that God is the only creator, Christian Science refutes the validity of
the testimony of the senses, which take cognizance of their own
phenomena,--sickness, disease, and death. This refutation is indispensab