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Rh and silently and humbly before Him, we shall incur less risk of overwhelming our real wishes in a torrent of words.

If we pray to God as a corporeal being, this will prevent us from relinquishing the human doubts and fears

which attend such belief; and so we cannot grasp the wonders wrought by infinite Love, to whom all things are possible. Because of human ignorance of the divine Principle, the Father of All is represented as a corporeal creator. Hence men recognize themselves as merely physical, and are ignorant of the origin of man and his eternal incorporeal existence. The world of error is blind to the reality of man's existence, for the world of sensation is ignorant of the Life which is Soul.

If we are sensibly with the body, and regard Omnipotence as a corporeal, material person, whose ear we

would gain, we are not “absent from the body and present with the Lord,” in the demonstration of Spirit. We cannot “serve two masters.” To be “present with the Lord” is not to have mere emotional ecstasy or faith, but to have the actual demonstration and understanding of Life, as revealed in Christian Science. To be “with the Lord” is to be in obedience to the law of God, to be absolutely governed by Spirit, not by matter.

Become conscious, for a single moment, that Life and Intelligence are purely spiritual, — neither in nor of

matter, — and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well. Sorrow is turned into joy, when the body is controlled by spiritual