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bility of intercommunion between the so-called dead and
living. There have always attended my life phenomena
of an uncommon order, which spiritualists have mis-
called mediumship; but I clearly understand that no
human agencies were employed,--that the divine Mind [20]
reveals itself to humanity through spiritual law. And
to such as are "waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption
of our body," Christian Science reveals the in-

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finitude of divinity and the way of man's salvation from [1]
sickness and death, as wrought out by Jesus, who robbed
the grave of victory and death of its sting. I understand
that God is an ever-present help in all times of trouble,--
have found Him so; and would have no other gods, no [5]
remedies in drugs, no material medicine.

Do I believe in a personal God?

I believe in God as the Supreme Being. I know not
what the person of omnipotence and omnipresence is,
or what the infinite includes; therefore, I worship that [10]
of which I can conceive, first, as a loving Father and
Mother; then, as thought ascends the scale of being to
diviner consciousness, God becomes to me, as to the
apostle who declared it, "God is Love,"--divine Prin-
ciple,--which I worship; and "after the manner of my [15]
fathers, so worship I God."

Do I believe in the atonement of Christ?

I do; and this atonement becomes more to me since
it includes man's redemption from sickness as well as
from sin. I reverence and adore Christ as never before. [20]

It brings to my sense, and to the sense of all who enter-
tain this understanding of the Science of God, a _whole_
salvation.

How is the healing done in Christian Science?

This answer includes too much to give you any con- [25]
clusive idea in a brief explanation. I can name some
means by which it is not done.

It is not one mind acting upon another mind; it is
not the transference of human images of thought to
other minds; it is not supported by the evidence before [30]
the personal senses,--Science contradicts this evidence;
it is not of the flesh, but of the Spirit. It is Christ come

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to destroy the power of the flesh; it is Truth over error; [1]
that understood, gives man ability to rise above the evi-
dence of the senses, take hold of the eternal energies of
Truth, and destroy mortal discord with immortal har-
mony,--the grand verities of being. It is not one mortal [5]
thought transmitted to another's thought from