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| 1 | serpents unharmed, to heal the sick and cast out evils in |
| | proof of the supremacy of Mind. |
| 3 | When understanding changes the standpoints of life and |
| | intelligence from a material to a spiritual basis, we shall |
| | gain the reality of Life, the control of Soul over | Standpoints
changed |
| 6 | sense, and we shall perceive Christianity, or |
| | Truth, in its divine Principle. This must be the climax |
| | before harmonious and immortal man is obtained and his |
| 9 | capabilities revealed. It is highly important--in view |
| | of the immense work to be accomplished before this recog- |
| | nition of divine Science can come--to turn our thoughts |
| 12 | towards divine Principle, that finite belief may be pre- |
| | pared to relinquish its error. |
| | Man's wisdom finds no satisfaction in sin, since God |
| 15 | has sentenced sin to suffer. The necromancy of yester- |
| | day foreshadowed the mesmerism and hypno- | Saving the
inebriate |
| | tism of to-day. The drunkard thinks he enjoys |
| 18 | drunkenness, and you cannot make the inebriate leave |
| | his besottedness, until his physical sense of pleasure yields |
| | to a higher sense. Then he turns from his cups, as |
| 21 | the startled dreamer who wakens from an incubus in- |
| | curred through the pains of distorted sense. A man who |
| | likes to do wrong--finding pleasure in it and refraining |
| 24 | from it only through fear of consequences--is neither |
| | a temperate man nor a reliable religionist. |
| | [[[The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life |
| 27 | of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless |
| | woes, turn us like tired children to the arms | Uses of
suffering |
| | of divine Love. Then we begin to learn Life |
| 30 | in divine Science. Without this process of weaning, |
| | "Canst thou by searching find out God?" It is easier |
| | to desire Truth than to rid one's self of error. Mortals |
| 1 | may seek the understanding of Christian Science, but they |
| | will not be able to glean from Christian Science the facts |
| 3 | of being without striving for them. This strife consists |
| | in the endeavor to forsake error of every kind and to pos- |
| | sess no other consciousness but good.]]] |
| 6 | Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we |
| | are helped onward in the march towards righteousness, |
| | peace, and purity, which are the landmarks | A bright
outlook |
| 9 | of Science. Beholding the infinite tasks of |
| | truth, we pause,--wait on God. Then we push onward, |
| | until boundless thought walks enraptured, and concep- |
| 12 | tion unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory. |
| | In order to apprehend more, we must put into prac- |
| | tice what we already know. We must recollect that |
| 15 | Truth is demonstrable when understood, and | Need and
supply |
| | that good is not understood until demonstrated. |
| | If "faithful over a few things," we shall be made rulers |
| 18 | over many; but the one unused talent decays and is lost. |
| | When the sick or the sinning awake to realize their need |
| | of what they have not, they will be receptive of divine |
| 21 | Science, which gravitates towards Soul and away from |
| | material sense, removes thought from the body, and ele- |
| | vates even mortal mind to the contemplation of some- |
| 24 | thing better than disease or sin. The true idea of God |
| | gives the true understanding of Life and Love, robs the |
| | grave of victory, takes away all sin and the delusion that |
| 27 | there are other minds, and destroys mortality. |
| | The effects of Christian Science are not so much seen |
| | as felt. It is the "still, small voice" of Truth | Childlike
receptivity |
| 30 | uttering itself. We are either turning away |
| | from this utterance, or we are listening to it and going |
| | up higher. Willingness to become as a little child and |
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