give it rich food and see if the stomach will bear it." The child eats the food and becomes sick; then they say, "I knew it would be so," and blame the quality of the food for the suffering, when the life was the cause and not the food. Thus the life of man pronounces this good, and that evil, and tries to better or change everything which God has made; it extracts a property from one thing, turns it into something else and claims for it more power than when in its original condition, thus striving to be wiser than God, and thus marring and wasting nature. How can man improve on God's Wisdom? If the extracts of plants, minerals, etc., are better to cure man, would not the All-Wise have made them so originally? But now what God has made, man tries to unmake.

We see and recognize matter, study into it and worship it, for we seek our wisdom in it and depend upon it for our life; thus, through the continual thought and study

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of it, we attach it to our life, and finally our life is become a portion of it. Now if we continue in this thought, our life will become immersed in matter. "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Any one differing from, or not accepting these material beliefs or opinions is called devoid of common-sense, and if he speak of Spirit, God, the materialist says, "What is that? I cannot see Spirit, do not know what it is, and how do you know anything about it?" Yet you study mathematics and have it taught to your children, although you cannot see it, and cannot know what it is until you understand it; but when you understand Spirit (God) you would much rather your children should be ignorant of mathematics than that they should be ignorant of God. Here lies the trouble, you have no opinions or beliefs. regarding mathematics, but you have re

garding God and Christ; and you do not recognize them as opinions and beliefs but think they are truth; therefore, believing you know God already, you never learn him; you rely on those opinions and are satisfied without proof, teach them to your children for truth, thus "heaping wrath upon yourself." You do not know God, but you can know him. God has made his children to know their Father. Did not

Jesus say, "And if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you,' and, "All shall know me from the least to the greatest of them"?

After finding that the things we can see do not restore us to health and happiness, why are we not willing to look into and understand those things which are not seen with the material eye? These are the things which shall bring to nought the things that are seen (matter and all the diseases of matter). Why should we laugh at, or consider improbable, the idea that sickness is wrong

or a discord, which we recognize, see and feel; and that Harmony (God) is health, which we do not recognize, see nor feel, but which can be understood? The understanding of that Harmony, though not visible to the material sight, will destroy the discord. or sickness which we now see. Harmony never created discord, neither is harmony in any way the cause of a discord; but through our understanding of harmony we are able to discern the absence of it, and that, we name a discord, thereby giving to that word the meaning of the absence of, or opposition to harmony. Harmony never created discord; we only recognized it as nothing, but simply the absence of something, through our understanding of that harmony or something.

Now if God is Harmony and Peace he cannot produce discord (sin, sickness and death), because they are the absence of, or opposition to him. God (Harmony) is unchangeable, while discord is changeable; but

in order for us to realize and judge of the discord for ourselves, we must understand the harmony, else we may mistake for harmony, that which is not.

If a student perform an example in mathematics not knowing the correct answer to it, he takes it to his teacher and asks if it is right; now suppose the teacher does not know what the answer should be, how can he tell if the example is worked correctly any better than the student? Because the teacher understands mathematics more thor oughly than does the student, and through his understanding of what is mathematical, he can prove that which is not; therefore, he will recognize in the work that which is the absence of understanding (error), but which the student, not realizing the understanding, mistook for it. Had the teacher not understood the truth, he could not have discerned the error; so we must understand God (Harmony), in order to be able to discern discord or the absence of Harmony, as