When “the Word” is “made flesh” among mortals, the Truth of Life is rendered practical on the body.  Eternal Life is partially understood; and sickness, sin, and death yield to holiness, health, and Life,—­that is, to God.  The lust of the flesh and the pride of physical life must be quenched in the divine essence,—­that omnipotent Love which annihilates hate, that Life which knows no death.

“Who hath believed our report?” Who understands these sayings?  He to whom the arm of the Lord is revealed.  He loves them from whom divine Science removes human weakness by divine strength, and who unveil the Messiah, whose name is Wonderful.

Man has no underived power.  That selfhood is false which opposes itself to God, claims another father, and denies spiritual sonship; but as many as receive the knowledge of God in Science must reflect, in some degree, the power of Him who gave and giveth man dominion over all the earth.

As soldiers of the cross we must be brave, and let Science declare the immortal status of man, and deny the evidence of the material senses, which testify that man dies.

As the image of God, or Life, man forever reflects and embodies Life, not death.  The material senses testify falsely.  They presuppose that God is good and that man is evil, that Deity is deathless, but that man dies, losing the divine likeness.

Science and material sense conflict at all points, from the revolution of the earth to the fall of a sparrow.  It is mortality only that dies.

To say that you and I, as mortals, will not enter this dark shadow of material sense, called death, is to assert what we have not proved; but man in Science never dies.  Material sense, or the belief of life in matter, must perish, in order to prove man deathless.

As Truth supersedes error, and bears the fruits of Love, this understanding of Truth subordinates the belief in death, and demonstrates Life as imperative in the divine order of being.

Jesus declares that they who believe his sayings will never die; therefore mortals can no more receive everlasting life by believing in death, than they can become perfect by believing in imperfection and living imperfectly.

Life is God, and God is good.  Hence Life abides in man, if man abides in good, if he lives in God, who holds Life by a spiritual and not by a material sense of being.

A sense of death is not requisite to a proper or true sense of Life, but beclouds it.  Death can never alarm or even appear to him who fully understands Life.  The death-penalty comes through our ignorance of Life,—­of that which is without beginning and without end,—­and is the punishment of this ignorance.

Holding a material sense of Life, and lacking the spiritual sense of it, mortals die, in belief, and regard all things as temporal.  A sense material apprehends nothing strictly belonging to the nature and office of Life.  It conceives and beholds nothing but mortality, and has but a feeble concept of immortality.