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98 Grafting holiness upon unholiness, and supposing that sin can be forgiven when it is not forsaken, is as foolish as straining out gnats and swallowing camels.

The Scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God's will must be universally done.

If men would bring to bear upon the study of the Science of Mind half the faith they bestow upon the

so-called pains and pleasures of material sense, they would not go on from immorality to immorality, until disciplined by the prison and the scaffold; but the whole human family would be redeemed by the merits of Christ, — the perception and acceptance of Truth. For this glorious result Christian Science brings the light of divine understanding.

Outside of this Science all is unstable error; but immortal man in accord with the Principle of his Being,

God, neither sins nor suffers. The days of our pilgrimage will multiply instead of diminish, when God's kingdom comes on earth; for the true way leads to Life instead of death; and earthly experience develops the finity of error and the infinite capacities of Truth, wherein man has dominion over all the earth.

Our beliefs about a Supreme Being contradict the practice growing out of them. Error abounds where Truth

should “much more abound.” We admit that God hath almighty power, is a “present help in time of trouble;” and yet we rely on a drug to heal disease, as if senseless matter had more power than omnipotent Spirit.

Common opinion admits that a man may take cold in