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498 Forsake error, and press forward into the realm of Truth and Love. Laying “aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us,” let us press forward to the "high calling of God in Christ," putting aside personal self and sense, and seeking the Divine Principle and Science of all healing.

Every pang of repentance and suffering, every effort for reform, every good thought and deed, will help us to acknowledge Jesus' atonement for sin, and aid its efficacy; but if the sinner continues to pray and repent, sin and be sorry, he hath little part in the atonement, — in the at-one-ment with God, — for he lacks the practical repentance that reforms the life, and enables one to do the will of Wisdom. None hath part in God, who cannot demonstrate in part the Divine Principle of the teachings and practice of our Master. If living in disobedience to Him, we ought to feel no security, although God is good and man repentant.

If Truth is overcoming error in our daily walk and conversation, we shall finally say, “I have fought the good fight, I have kept the faith,” because I am a better man. This is having our part in the at-one-ment with Truth and Love. Standing still and praying — expecting, because of another's goodness, suffering, and triumph, that we shall reach his harmony and reward — is vain and selfish.

Vibrating, like a pendulum, between sin and the hope of forgiveness, — selfishness and sensuality causing constant retrogression, — our mortal progress will be very slow.

Jesus uncovered and rebuked sin before he cast it out. To the sick he said, “Lo, Satan hath bound thee!” and