bonds of such an infirmity for eighteen years, do you not suppose that he is strong enough to burst those bonds, when it serves his purpose to do so, and make her free? In other words, he is both willing and able to add tremendous weight to the power of suggestion in mental treatment and healing the sick, that he may enslave and ruin the soul, and at the same time dethrone Christ in the hearts of men. And, without a doubt, that is exactly what he is doing. Do not believe that Satan has reformed, because he appears to do some good things. Do not believe that he is a worshipper, because he sits with seeming reverence in God's house on the Lord's day, for, as we have already seen, "there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them." The sequel shows that he was not there to worship, nor for any other good purpose.

This brings us squarely to the point, that, if Christian Science contradicts the teachings of the Bible, it is not of God; if it is not of God, then it must be of the devil, and if it is of the devil, surely he has a large hand in its much boasted healings, and that for the devilish purpose of bringing souls under his malign influence and luring them on to spiritual and everlasting ruin.

If the next chapter is read with patient care it will be seen how this wretched pretense of a religion, point by point, and at almost every point, is brought into open and unmistakable, as well as hopeless, conflict with God's Word, in both Testaments. It were better to live in bodily weakness and pain, and at the same time live in harmony with God's Word and the gospel of his Son, than to be released from pain and sickness,

and live in revolt against God and die without hope. "It is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire."

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE.

Doctor R. G. Pearson was a great teacher of the Bible and evangelistic preacher. He had a way peculiarly his own. In some respects he was unique as an expositor of Scripture. His sermons were always interesting, and rarely ever anything less than powerful. Many is the time I have heard him say, “I am not going to preach to-day, but am going to allow the Bible to do its own preaching," and then he would announce his subject and his text, after which would follow a superb analysis of the subject, almost in the exact words of Scripture, truly a most effective method.

We are admonished by the Holy Spirit to "believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." And then he passes the scales over to us and tells us to weigh them, the spirits, in the balances, "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." This passage is fatal to Christian Science and its pretensions, because it, Christian Science, denies that Jesus Christ ever came in the flesh at all, for there is no flesh, no matter, all is mind. Let us put Christian Science to the test of the Word of God according to the Pearson method. If it can stand this test, it is of God, but if it cannot stand such a test, most as

suredly it is not of God! "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."

The following is presented in double columns, the first column containing excerpts selected from the 1910 edition of Science and Health, while over against them, in loco, are contradictory passages from the Word of God. Read both columns carefully and see how utterly the first is annihilated by the second: