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The world believes that medicine cures man and prolongs his life; this leaves God, the Omnipotent, entirely out of the question, and admits inert matter to be more powerful than God who is the source of the being of all things. Again, it believes God blesses. the means, and that it is thus we are healed; but this is only an opinion of man, and is not true, for history shows us that the years of man's life have been growing less and less. Would not God bless man, whom he made in his own image and likeness, and to whom he gave dominion over all things, before he would bless mercury and the knife which are matter? We have God's promise that he will bless man, and we also read in the scriptures, "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world," etc. Notwithstanding all evidence to the contrary, obtained through the scriptures, and through the failures of its theories when put to

the test, the world is still firm in the belief that somewhere in matter will yet be found the remedy that is going to conquer disease; thus are the blind led by blind guides; and when a different idea is advanced, which is a new thought not understood by the people but realized by the mind that utters it, it is pronounced by those to whom it is a stranger, absurd.

When the idea that the earth revolved was advanced by a mind that understood it to be a fact, it was ridiculed; and by whom? By those who were wise in their own conceit, but who thought they were wise in Wisdom. The idea of telegraphy was also held in contempt by those who did not understand. it, and who labored under the delusion that what they did not know (if there were anything) was unimportant. Many lived to learn that they could be taught some things of great importance by those who were lacking in minor knowledge.

Now we take up a question of greater im

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portance than all of these; and although the question is an old one, the answer will be new to many; but good men and women have passed from our sight with some of this spiritual truth, which their fellow-men might have gained had they not crushed the expounder with their ridicule and contempt of that which their minds had not reached. The question now, is how to free man from the bondage of sickness and restore him to the freedom of health, in which he can better serve God and enjoy his beautiful creation.

At the present time, all opinions, knowledge and experience are in matter, giving all the wisdom and power to it, and even trusting man's life to it. Thus the people to-day are resting on the opinions and beliefs-material understanding, of man, and it gives them nothing substantial, only a shadow, a faint hope that they will some time be with. Christ, which shows that they are not with him at present.

Jesus knew how he healed; his work was

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only a demonstration of his understanding. The people hold divers opinions regarding Jesus' healing, but with these opinions they bring forth no work such as he declared his followers should bring forth, and to do which, they must reverse their thoughts and then, instead of placing wisdom and sensation in matter, they will find matter without either, and incapable of any independent action. They will find that life is the cause of all action, and produces all changes in matter. If the body have no life it is not capable of action; it is an instrument for the life to act through, and the life sustains it. If the life leave the body, the body will cease to act. Now, is not the life the actor, sustainer and governor, and the cause of all material action? A lifeless body cannot take cold nor have pain, because life is that which realizes the pain; but if the life be in the body, it can do both, because it is the life, not the matter, that fears the cold according to its thought or teachings; therefore the life must be the

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cause, whether we are conscious of it or not. This conclusion we arrive at, not through the evidence of the sight, but through that of the understanding.

Suppose you were living near the railroad, and the cars, thrown from the track, should demolish your house and injure you, would not life be the cause? Life made the cars, laid the track, put the water into the boiler, kindled the fire, and opened the valve that set the engine in motion. Life did not make the track strong enough or else caused some obstruction to be placed in the way, hence the accident. Life constructed your house, and your life

You may say, “Yes,

placed your body in it. life was the cause if you take it in that way." But in what other way can you take it, and show the cause?

Suppose I should be walking past a house, and a pane of glass should fall from an upper window cutting me and causing my death; the glass was made and placed by