utable Word
saith, through the prophet Ezekiel, "What mean ye, that
ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's
teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, [15]
ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb
in Israel."

_Are material things real when they are harmonious, and_
_do they disappear only to the natural sense? Does this_
_Scripture, __"__Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have_ [20]
_need of all these things__"__ imply that Spirit takes note of_
_matter?_

The Science of Mind, as well as the material unii
verse, shows that nothing which is material is in
perpetual harmony. Matter is manifest mortal mind, [35]
and it exists only to material sense. Real sensation
is not material; it is, and must be, mental: and Mind
is not mortal, it is immortal. Being is God, infinite
Spirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, or
outside of infinity. [30]

The Scriptural passage quoted affords no evidence of

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the reality of matter, or that God is conscious of it. [1]
The so-called material body is said to suffer, but this
supposition is proven erroneous when Mind casts out
the suffering. The Scripture saith, "Whom the Lord
loveth He chasteneth;" and again, "He doth not [5]
afflict willingly." Interpreted materially, these pas-
sages conflict; they mingle the testimony of immor-
tal Science with mortal sense; but once discern their
spiritual meaning, and it separates the false sense from
the true, and establishes the reality of what is spiritual, [10]
and the unreality of materiality.

Law is never material: it is always mental and moral,
and a commandment to the wise. The foolish disobey
moral law, and are punished. Human wisdom therefore
can get no farther than to say, He knoweth that we have [15]
need of experience. Belief fulfils the conditions of a be-
lief, and these conditions destroy the belief. Hence the
verdict of experience: We have need of _these_ things; we
have need to know that the so-called pleasures and pains
of matter--yea, that all subjective states of false sensa- [20]
tion--are _unreal_.

_"__And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,_
_That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when_
_the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory,_
_ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the_ [25]
_twelve tribes of Israel.__"_ (Matt. xix. 28.) _What is meant_
_by re