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Rh Those ready for the good you impart will give thanks. The waters will be pacified, for Christ will command a calm.

At all times, and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, you will find human hatred helpless to harm you. The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the One Divinity.

Through trope and metaphor, the Revelator — immortal scribe of Spirit, and of a true idealism — furnishes the mirror in which mortal mind may see its own image. In significant figures he depicts the thoughts which he beholds in mortal mind. Thus he rebukes the conceit of sin, and foreshadows its doom.

He has opened wide the gates of glory with his strength, and illumined the night of paganism with the sublime grandeur of Christian Science, which outshines the sorcery of sin, idolatry, and hypocrisy. He takes away mitre and sceptre. He enthrones pure and undefiled religion, and lifts on high only those who have washed their robes white in obedience and suffering.

Thus we see, in both the first and last books of the Bible, — in Genesis and in the Apocalypse, — that sin is to be scientifically reduced to its native nothingness.

“Little children, love one another,” is the most simple and profound saying of the inspired writer. We are children of God; but mortals are very small, when compared with the stature of Christ. Love fulfils the law in Science, and nothing short of this Divine Principle, understood and demonstrated, can ever furnish the vision