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262 peace. In the breaking up of material beliefs, there will be famine and pestilence. Sickness and death will

assume sudden phases, and their nothingness be understood. These disturbances will continue until the end, when all material discord will be swallowed up in spiritual harmony.

Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue until all errors of belief yield to understanding. Belief is changeable, but understanding is spiritually changeless.

As this consummation draws nearer, he who hath shaped his course in accordance with Christian Science

will find harmony established at the very threshold of his career. As material knowledge diminishes, and spiritual understanding increases, sensible objects will be apprehended mentally instead of physically.

During this final conflict, wicked minds will endeavor to find means whereby to accomplish more evil; but those who discern Christian Science will hold crime in check. They will aid the ejection of error. They will maintain law and order, and cheerfully await the certainty of ultimate perfection.

In reality, the more closely error simulates Truth, and so-called matter resembles its essence, mortal mind, the

more impotent error becomes as a belief. The lightning is fierce and the electric current swift, yet in Christian Science the flight of one and the blow of the other are harmless. The more ethereal matter becomes, the more its nothingness appears, until it reaches its mortal zenith in illusion, the source of all evil. The nearer a belief approaches Truth, without passing