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Drugs and divinity

Material medicine substitutes drugs for the power of God - even the might of Mind - to heal the body. Scholasticism clings for salvation to the per- son, instead of to the divine Principle, of the man Jesus; and his Science, the curative agent of God, is silenced. Why? Because truth divests material drugs of their imaginary power, and clothes Spirit with suprem- acy. Science is the "stranger that is within thy gates," remembered not, even when its elevating effects prac- tically prove its divine origin and efficacy.