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268 pride of life must be renounced. Christianity must be the Queen of Life, with the crown of Love upon her brow.

If my friends are going to Europe, while I am en route for California, we are not journeying together. We have separate time-tables to consult, different routes to pursue. Our paths have parted at the very outset, and we have little opportunity to help each other. On the contrary, if they pursue my course we have the same railroad-guides, and our mutual interests are identical. If I take up their line of travel, they will help me on, and our companionship may continue.

The Christian Scientist must choose his course, and be honest and consistent in following the leadings of Mind. He must practically acknowledge Jesus' way, as the only one whereby mortals are saved.

In sympathy with matter, the worldly man is at the beck of error, and will be attracted thitherward. He is like a traveller going westward for a fashionable trip. The company is alluring, and the pleasures exciting. After following the sun for six days, he turns east on the seventh, satisfied if he can only imagine himself drifting in one direction. By-and-by, ashamed of his zigzag course, he perhaps steals the passport of some wiser pilgrim, as a help to finding and following the right road once more.

If the disciple is advancing spiritually, he constantly turns away from sense, and looks towards Spirit. If honest, he would be in earnest from the start, and gain a little each day in the right direction, till at last he would finish his course with joy.

Students who start with the letter of Christian Science, and think to succeed without its Spirit, will either make