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Rh for good or evil until we lose our belief in them, and make Life its own proof of harmony and God.

This text in the Book of Ecclesiastes conveys the Christian Science thought, especially when the word

duty, which is not in the original, is omitted: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole [duty] of man.” In other words: Love and its manifestation are All in all. There is naught else, nothing else is. Divine Love is infinite, therefore all that really exists is divine Love.

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus xx. 3.) This First Commandment is my favorite text. It demonstrates Christian Science. It inculcates the triunity of God, Spirit, Mind; it signifies that man shall have no other spirit or mind but God, eternal Good, and all men shall have one Mind. Its divine Principle bases the Science of Being, whereby man demonstrates health, holiness, and Life eternal. One God unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, “Love thy neighbor as thyself;” annihilates Pagan and Christian idolatry; all social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.