of the physical senses. Why was this conviction necessary to the right
apprehension of the invincible and infinite energies of Truth and Love, as
contrasted with the foibles and fables of finite mind and material
existence.

The answer is plain. St. Paul declared that the law was the schoolmaster,
to bring him to Christ. Even so was I led into the mazes of divine
metaphysics through the gospel of suffering, the providence of God, and the
cross of Christ. No one else can drain the cup which I have drunk to the
dregs as the Discoverer and teacher of Christian Science; neither can its
inspiration be gained without tasting this cup.

The loss of material objects of affection sunders the dominant ties of
earth and points to heaven. Nothing can compete with Christian Science, and
its demonstration, in showing this solemn certainty in growing freedom and
vindicating "the ways of God" to man. The absolute proof and self-evident
propositions of Truth are immeasurably paramount to rubric and dogma in
proving the Christ.

From my very childhood I was impelled, by a hunger and thirst after divine
things,--a desire for something higher and better than matter, and apart
from it,--to seek diligently for the knowledge of God as the one great and
ever-present relief from human woe. The first spontaneous motion of Truth
and Love, acting through Christian Science on my roused consciousness,
banished at once and forever the fundamental error of faith in things
material; for this trust is the unseen sin, the unknown foe,--the heart's
untamed desire which breaketh the divine commandments. As says St. James:
"Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is
guilty of all."