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     Preface

   1      To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is
     big with blessings. The wakeful shepherd beholds
   3  the first faint morning beams, ere cometh the full radiance
     of a risen day. So shone the pale star to the prophet-
     shepherds; yet it traversed the night, and came where, in
   6  cradled obscurity, lay the Bethlehem babe, the human
     herald of Christ, Truth, who would make plain to be-
     nighted understanding the way of salvation through Christ
   9  Jesus, till across a night of error should dawn the morn-
     ing beams and shine the guiding star of being. The Wise-
     men were led to behold and to follow this daystar of
  12  divine Science, lighting the way to eternal harmony.
         The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent
     of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the
  15  portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and
     the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling
     away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-
  18  stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a
     right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is
     Life eternal. Though empires fall, "the Lord shall
  21  reign forever."
         A book introduces new thoughts, but it cannot make
     them speedily understood. It is the task of the sturdy
  24  pioneer to hew the tall oak and to cut the rough
     granite. Future ages must declare what the pioneer
     has accomplished.
  27      Since the author's discovery of the might of Truth in

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