speak in faith, believing, is to speak as if we were the embodiment of Truth; for thus it is to be able to act out the nature of limitless Being.

Jesus told the disciples to preach the Gospel and heal the sick, and do everything spoken of in our text, in his name, as his representatives. Then what are we to believe? Are we not to believe that we are representing the same Truth that he claimed to be? That we are the sons and daughters of the Infinite Creator, the one and only self-existent reality of the universe? Then let us believe that sonship includes us all.

As true as it is that there is just One thing in the universe, One God, substance, or mind, so is it equally true that we are whole and complete in our Being and existence. The true meaning of "holy baptism, and of fire," reveals that to be at all, is to be what is, which is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit of the New Testament record. So man is capable of fulfilling the command, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel," and do all the things that Jesus said should be as signs following ;-release from sin and death are among the signs following.

The law of demonstration is the law of self-expression, that by which Being expresses itself. Is is frequently said that man is all mind, but that mind would have no means by which it could express itself without a body; but in Divine Science it is clearly seen that Divine Mind is ALL, therefore it is its own law of expression or creation. It has the means within itself to express living form; for this reason it has the means to sustain and use form. I am mind," each one can say, "which is, was, and evermore shall be." "I am that perfect, intelligent, conscious, invisible mind which expresses living form, and which carries on the functions of the body, undisturbed, whether it is asleep or awake. I breathe the breath of life into it; I circulate the blood; I digest the food; I assimilate it, and recuperate the body without ceasing. The mind that I am is pure intelligence, and includes the body." So, when you are practicing Divine Science, and you affirm, "I am not troubled, and will be troubled no more with this so-called disease," you evidently do so because you know the Truth of your Being; that you are showing forth health, and will continue to do so. To practice the law of Truth, means strict observance of Truth. To demonstrate the law of mathematics, means strict observance of its principle. To practice the Law of God, or limitless Being, means strict observance of the Truth of what Being is, in which we must know that sonship is equal to Fatherhood.

It is useless to look for signs until we follow the principle; it is useless to look for demonstrations until we fulfill the law. Believe in your hearts that what you are is life, and life knows not sin nor death. If reasoning as

if you were dead unto sin frees from sin, how can sin force you to draw its wages, which was said by Paul, is death? Truly a falling short of Truth has no dominion over you.

Let not human beliefs have dominion, that is, do not believe that they have any power, whatsoever, in your bodies. Believe fully in the Truth of your Being, and you can not fail to demonstrate life, and nothing the contrary of life. Error cannot cause you to fall short of life, or to drop its temple-the body. The end of sin cannot be forced upon you.

A lady wrote to me some time ago to whom I was giving absent treatment, and told me she was sure she was going to die. In my reply I said: "You are going to die unto the seeming disease, and the belief of it; you cannot die except unto some erroneous condition or belief." There was a marked improvement in her condition in a very short time.

This day I see the demonstration of Truth in your faces; I see the light of Infinite Being glorifying your countenances, which are signs following your individual knowledge of Being. You know the law that creates is the law that demonstrates and sustains; it is that which proves itself in successful demonstration in the business world. We are all proving it in our honest and upright dealings with each other. We have many more signs following than we give ourselves credit for.

What is Divine Science ?

By JESSIE FARRER. Read before the Training Class July 10, 1900.

DIVINE Science is a true knowledge of what God is and his method of

expression. Jesus Christ taught that God is Spirit, and as he taught the truth of what God is he naturally taught the science of Infinite Spirit. God is no respecter of persons. He pervades all alike, and all who conform to the unchanging principle of all Goodness are taught by the Spirit the same truth. God is Infinite Being, Immutable, One, Omnipresent; his law of expression is one and his kingdom a one power kingdom. "There is one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all" (Eph. iv: 6). The uncreate Being, being limitless goodness, excludes the possibility of there being another Life, substance or power. There are no powers, or expressions of power, that are not good, "for the powers that be are ordained of God."

A belief in two powers, one Good and the other Evil, warring against each other, is as a house divided against itself. This belief has brought upon humanity all the seeming afflictions and misery that man is said to be heir to, and has engendered the feeling of separateness from the God the Good, resulting

in doubt, fear, prejudice, cruelty, hatred and disease. "There is no power but of God." Paul knew that God fills heaven and earth, so he said: "Give no place to the devil. We must not believe in anything that is opposite to His being to believe in God only is to find the Kingdom of God. In D. S. our dwelling place must be in the absolute, and we must be disciplined to think constantly from that plane in order to be able to demonstrate the nature of spirit.

In all the universe there is nothing but God and God manifest. All true expression represents that there must be an expressor, and it comes into expression through action. God's law of expression teaches that the power to create and to think is in spirit, God-the Father of all; and the power to think is manifest as thought, and through this divine method all living things are brought forth. It teaches us that we are now all that we desire to manifest, because the spirit of God is in us and we are it. All that is expressed is ours. God being a trinity in unity, and as the all of perfection is in Himself, his creative action and creation, there is no room anywhere for imperfection, or any other power the opposite of the Good.

To study from the plane of Being is to know that all the scripture promises are for this world and for us; that what is true of God is true of man; that which is begotten of spirit is spirit, therefore man is God's exact image and likeness, co-equal and co-eternal with God; that a God afar off and a material heaven have no existence. Our highest conception of God is God's conception of man. Body is an expression of God apparent in form. All expression is a manifestation of God. Disease is not an expression at all, but a false condition-erroneous claim. God being Omniscience, sees it only as a great mathematician discovers the miscalculation of a pupil, and gives it no place in mathematics, so God does not recognize disease as belonging to himself or to any part of creation, therefore in God it has no place. All such beliefs come from the belief that we are always separate and apart from God.

The belief in original sin has no origin in Truth, for the only origin is God. All inequality is departure from God, because the belief is false. It is the will of the Father that none should suffer; therefore, in treating we deny all beliefs in imperfection, weakness, limitation, and affirm wholeness, strength and power for our patients; that the kingdom is within, therefore, there is nothing wrong and no lack of power.

To believe that we are sick and unhappy is to take God's name in vain. In making statements we always make them from the Infinite, and never from the finite or a supposed finite.

A UNIVERSAL TREATMENT FROM HARMONY.-"All nations are united in one Substance and Love is the ruling power."

"I

INDIVIDUAL THOUGHT FOR HEALING." I am all-powerful for good." "I am living in the kingdom of Good." "I am the tree of life."

The Light Within.

What is the power that makes the world so fine,

Now Spring has come with grass and bloom and bird,

Why is the earth to happiness so stirred

But from the fact the sun of Love doth shine,
And all sweet things to Beauty's self incline;
Ah! here indeed is Nature's noble word,
By poet hearts thro' all the ages heard,
That it may stir our Souls to life divine.
When Love shines bright within the waiting heart,
It moves to manhood brave, upright, and true,
So that the growths of good in grace arise,
And birds of Thought in happy orchards dart,
And Hopes nigh dead their lovliness renew,
And Eden is beneath translucent skies!

And when the Soul devoted is to Right,

He touches other Souls that right to gain,
And Beauty spreads like grasses on the plain,
And all around becomes with radiance bright,
The earth and heart have equal happy sight,

And sympathy and purpose one maintain,
A like result of Heaven's sun and rain,

A like decree that follows Love and Light!
O that the power we have in Knowledge clear,
Might beam in every land as brightness spread,
And quicken Man with Truth's unceasing Spring,
Then would the world live in its golden year,
Then would mankind be with new manna fed,
And like the birds their hearts for joy would sing!

WILLIAM BRUNTON.

We take the following from the Union Medical Journal :

"In suggestive Therapeutics, for March, the editor of this journal gave his views of the physician of the future. The essay was written at the special request of the editor of that magazine, and we have been requested by some of the readers of the UNION MEDICAL JOURNAL to quote it, and we yield so far as to give it in part:"

"The priest and the physician were originally one person. His pretension was equaled only by his ignorance, and the result of his blunders were all charged to the account of the gods. Medicine was sired by ignorance, and born of fear, and the materia medica of the priest-physician contained little else than prayers, incantations, mummeries of magic, and directions for sacrifices to the gods.

"The exact date of the differentiation of the double-functioned doctor, by which he became two distinct persons, is among the problems of history. Nor does this concern us so much as the fact that the doctor of divinity and the doctor of medicine of to-day both inherit at least a modicum of the ignorance and pretension of their joint prototype. Yet it is but just to both to say that theology and medicine are alike progressing quite rapidly, and there is good ground for the hope that ere long they will both become exact sciences. Then, and not until then, will the ideal physician, the physician of the future, take the place of the empiric of the present.

What will the physician of the future be? He will not be a sectarian 'pathist,' that is certain, for before he can appear on earth the 'pathies' will all be dead. He will not be a dogmatist nor a codist. He will be a doctor in the true sense, as well as a physician, by which I mean he will not only heal the people, for that is the function of the physician, but he will teach them the laws of life, for the primary meaning of doctor is teacher.

"When the last vestige of superstition shall have been eliminated from religion and medicine, and they have both evoluted up to the plane of exact science and true philosophy, they will be reunited, and the priest and physician will again be one. For are not the laws of the physical body as divine as those of the soul, and are not the interdependent relations of the mind and of the body so blended that if the one is diseased it affects the other, and therefore will not the physician of the future minister to both the souls and the bodies of the people?

"Shakespeare asks: Canst thou minister to a mind diseased?' The great dramatic poet asked the question in a manner which implied that the answer must of necessity be in the negative. The physician of the future will be able to give an affirmative reply to that question, and give it with a confidence born of scientific faith and experimental knowledge."

The leading editorial in the Medical Times, for April, opens with this:

In the earlier nations of antiquity the priest was also the physician, the care of the soul being so intimately blended with that of the body that what at a later day became two great professions was united in one. Within the last half century physiological and psychological students are bringing the professions of theology and medicine into such close relationship that their strongest arguments and most efficient work are based upon the same