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300 pleasures, frowns, or flatteries of earth, are but ghosts of nothingness, compared to the prize set before us, “And laying aside every weight and sin that so easily beset us, let us press forward to the high calling of God in Christ,” putting aside personal self and sense, for Soul, the Principle of being.

Every pang of repentance, every suffering for sin, (accompanied with reformatory efforts) and every good deed, atones for sin. But if the sinner is sorry, and continues to pray, and to sin and be sorry, he hath no part in the at-one-ment. To understand God, “Whom to know aright is Life eternal,” is to do the will of Wisdom; and none hath part in Him, who demonstrates not, in part, the Principle embraced in the teachings and practice of our Master. If not obeying the science of being according to its Principle, God, we should have no confidence in man's safety, because God is good, and man repents. But if we are growing spiritual, and error is yielding to Truth in our demonstrations of being, and our daily walk and conversation, we shall say at length, “I have fought the good fight and kept the faith;” for I am a better man. This is having part in the at-one-ment. If a man stands still, praying, and expecting because of another man's goodness, sufferings and triumphs, he will reach his harmony and reward; that man will vibrate, a pendulum, between sin and the hope of forgiveness; selfishness and sensuality winding him up to this action, and his growth will be slow. An at-one-ment with Love and Truth, is to apply the meaning of the Life, and not death of Jesus, to deeds and a Christian character, and not to cover, or forgive sin, but to destroy it in the most