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560 of St. John, has a special suggestiveness in connection with the nineteenth century. In the opening of the

sixth seal, typical of six thousand years since Adam, the distinctive feature has reference to the present age.

Heaven represents harmony, and divine Science interprets the Principle of heavenly harmony. The great

miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man. This goal is never reached while we hate our neighbor or entertain a false estimate of anyone whom God has appointed to voice His Word. Again, without a correct sense of its highest visible idea, we can never understand the divine Principle. The botanist must know the genus and species of a plant in order to classify it correctly. As it is with things, so is it with persons.

Abuse of the motives and religion of St. Paul hid from view the apostle's character, which made him equal to

his great mission. Persecution of all who have spoken something new and better of God has not only obscured the light of the ages, but has been fatal to the persecutors. Why? Because it has hid from them the true idea which has been presented. To misunderstand Paul, was to be ignorant of the divine idea he taught. Ignorance of the divine idea betrays at once a greater ignorance of the divine Principle of the idea —