divine All must be Spirit.

The tendency of Christianity is to spiritualize thought and action. The
demonstrations of Jesus annulled the claims of matter, and overruled laws
material as emphatically as they annihilated sin.

According to Christian Science, the _first_ idolatrous claim of sin is,
that matter exists; the _second_, that matter is substance; the _third_,
that matter has intelligence; and the _fourth_, that matter, being so
endowed, produces life and death.

Hence my conscientious position, in the denial of matter, rests on the fact
that matter usurps the authority of God, Spirit; and the nature and
character of matter, the antipode of Spirit, include all that denies and
defies Spirit, in quantity or quality.

This subject can be enlarged. It can be shown, in detail, that evil does
not obtain in Spirit, God; and that God, or good, is Spirit alone; whereas,
evil _does_, according to belief, obtain in matter; and that evil is a
false claim,--false to God, false to Truth and Life. Hence the claim of
matter usurps the prerogative of God, saying, "I am a creator. God made me,
and I make man and the material universe."

Spirit is the only creator, and man, including the universe, is His
spiritual concept. By matter is commonly meant mind,--not the highest Mind,
but a false form of mind. This so-called mind and matter cannot be
separated in origin and action.

What is this mind? It is not the Mind of Spirit; for spiritualization of
thought destroys all sense of matter as substance, Life, or intelligence,