The influence of Christian Science supplants one's desire for worldly riches and material wealth with the desire to be good, holy, pure, and righteous.
The building of splendid edifices in which to worship God seems to be a necessary concession to the need of the times, but the Christian Scientist understands that "the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands;" that God is infinite Mind; that heaven is His throne and the earth His footstool.
You write that the followers of every religion have assumed their own miracles to be real and superhuman, and those of other religions to have been ingenious tricks.
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