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572 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. “Love one another” (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound counsel of the inspired writer. In Science we are children of God; but whatever is of material sense, or mortal, belongs not to His children, for materiality is the inverted image of spirituality.

Love fulfils the law of Christian Science, and nothing short of this divine Principle, understood and

demonstrated, can ever furnish the vision of the Apocalypse, open the seven seals of error with Truth, or uncover the myriad illusions of sin, sickness, and death. Under the supremacy of Spirit, it will be seen and acknowledged that matter must disappear.

In Revelation xxi. 1 we read: —

The Revelator had not yet passed the transitional stage in human experience called death, but he already

saw a new heaven and a new earth. Through what sense came this vision to St. John? Not through the material visual organs for seeing, for optics are inadequate to take in so wonderful a scene. Were this new heaven and new earth terrestrial or celestial,