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Rh depends on his genuine spirituality. This kind of mind-reading is not clairvoyance; but it is important to our success in healing, and is one of the special characteristics of that success.

We welcome the increase of knowledge, even though it lead into error, because sinful human invention must

have its day, and we want that day to be over. Midnight foretells the dawn. Led by a solitary star amid the darkness, the Magi of old foretold the Messiahship of Truth. Is the wise man of to-day believed, when he beholds the light which heralds Christ's eternal dawn, and describes its effulgence ?

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

Material sense cannot at once enter upon the unknown reality of Spirit. As a criminal it will be punished by an unlooked-for doom. Humanity advances out of material sense into spiritual understanding slowly, because unwillingness to learn clogs the footsteps and loads Christendom with chains.

Love will finally mark the hour of harmony; and spiritualization will follow, for Love is Spirit. Before error

is wholly destroyed, there will be interruptions in the general material routine. Earth will become dreary and desolate, but summer and winter, seedtime and harvest (though in changed forms), will continue unto the end, — until the final spiritualization of all things. “The darkest hour just precedes the dawn.”

This material world is even now becoming the arena of conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other there will be Science and