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Rh Remember the Scripture, “Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many.” If faithful in bearing testimony against this error of animal magnetism, — not running from it, but handling the Serpent scientifically, as the Scripture demands, — you will have all power over error, and learn that its nothingness is in proportion to its wickedness.

He that touches the hem of Christian Science, and masters the mortal belief in animality and hate, rejoices in the principle of healing, — in a sweet and certain sense that God is Love. Alas for those who break faith with Divine Science, and fail to strangle the Serpent of sin, as well as of sickness. They are dwellers still in the deep darkness of belief. They are in the surging sea of error, not trying to lift their heads above the drowning wave.

What must the end be? They must eventually expiate, through suffering, this fatal folly. The sin, which one has made his bosom companion, comes back to him at last with accelerated force, for evil knoweth its time is short. Here the Scriptures declare that evil is temporal, not eternal. The Dragon is at last stung to death by his own malice; but how many periods of self-torture it may take to remove all sin, must depend upon its obduracy.

The march of mind and honest investigation will bring the hour when the people will chain, with fetters of some sort, the growing occultism and mesmerism of this period. The duty of all Scientists is to expose this red Dragon, that he may be the sooner subdued.