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Rh mankind of their foe in ambush? Is the informer one who sees the foe? If so, listen and be wise. Escape from evil, and designate those as unfaithful stewards, who have seen the danger and yet have given no warning.

At all times, and under all circumstances, overcome evil with Good. Know thyself, and God will supply the

wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one Divinity.

Through trope and metaphor, the Revelator — immortal scribe of Spirit, and of a true idealism — furnishes

the mirror in which mortal mind may see its own image. In significant figures he depicts the thoughts which he beholds in mortal mind. Thus he rebukes the conceit of sin, and foreshadows its doom. With his spiritual strength, he has opened wide the gates of glory, and illumined the night of Paganism with the sublime grandeur of Christian Science, outshining sin, sorcery, idolatry, and hypocrisy. He takes away mitre and sceptre. He enthrones pure and undefiled religion, and lifts on high only those who have washed their robes white in obedience and suffering.

Thus we see, in both the first and last books of the Bible, — in Genesis and in the Apocalypse, — that sin is

to be Christianly and Scientifically reduced to its native nothingness. “Little children, love one another,” is the most simple and profound saying of the inspired writer. In Science we are children of God; but in sense, or as mortals, we are not His children, and corporeality is the inverted image of His child.