possessed any knowledge of them. His sympathy is divine, not human. It is
Truth's knowledge of its own infinitude which forbids the genuine existence
of even a claim to error. This knowledge is light wherein there is no
darkness,--not light holding darkness within itself. The consciousness of
light is like the eternal law of God, revealing Him and nothing else.

Sympathy with sin, sorrow, and sickness would dethrone God as Truth, for
Truth has no sympathy for error. In Science, the cure of the sick
demonstrates this grand verity of Christian Science, that you cannot
eradicate disease if you admit that God sends it or sees it. Material and
mortal mind-healing (so-called) has for ages been a pretender, but has not
healed mortals; and they are yet sick and sinful.

Disease and sin appear to-day in subtler forms than they did yesterday.
They progress and will multiply into worse forms, until it is understood
that disease and sin are unreal, _unknown_ to Truth, and never actual
persons or real facts.

Our phraseology varies. To me _divine pardon_ is that divine presence which
is the sure destruction of sin; and I insist on the destruction of sin as
the only full proof of its pardon. "For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might _destroy_ the works of the devil" (1 John iii.
8).

Jesus cast out evils, mediating between what is and is not, until a perfect
consciousness is attained. He healed disease as he healed sin; but he
treated them both, not as in or of matter, but as mortal beliefs to be
exterminated. Physical and mental healing were one and the same with this
master Metaphysician. If the evils called sin, sickness, and death had been
forgiven in the generally accepted sense, they would have returned, to be