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ords. Past, present, future, will show the word and might of Truth--healing the sick and reclaiming the sinner-- so long as there remains a claim of error for Truth to [10] deny or to destroy. Love's labors are not lost. The five personal senses, that grasp neither the meaning nor the magnitude of self-abnegation, may lose sight thereof; but Science voices unselfish love, unfolds infinite good, leads on irresistible forces, and will finally show the fruits [15] of Love. Human reason is inaccurate; and the scope of the senses is inadequate to grasp the word of Truth, and teach the eternal. Science speaks when the senses are silent, and then the evermore of Truth is triumphant. The spiritual mon- [20] itor understood is coincidence of the divine with the human, the acme of Christian Science. Pure humanity, friendship, home, the interchange of love, bring to earth a foretaste of heaven. They unite terrestrial and celes- tial joys, and crown them with blessings infinite. [25] The Christian Scientist loves man more because he loves God most. He understands this Principle,--Love. Who is sufficient for these things? Who remembers that patience, forgiveness, abiding faith, and affection, are the symptoms by which our Father indicates the dif- [30] ferent stages of man's recovery from sin and his en- trance into Science? Who knows how the feeble lips [Page 101.] are made eloquent, how hearts are inspired, how heal- [1] ing becomes spontaneous, and how the divine Mind is understood and demonstrated? He alone knows these wonders who is departing from the thraldom of the senses and accepting spiritual truth,--that which blesses [5] its adoption by the refinement of joy and the dismissal of sorrow. Christian Science and the senses are at war. It is a revolutionary struggle. We already have had two in this nation; and they began and ended in a contest for [10] the true idea, for human liberty and rights. Now cometh a third struggle; for the freedom of health, holiness, and the attainment of heaven. The scientific sense of being which establishes har- mony, enters into no compromise with finiteness and [15] feebleness. It undermines the foundations of mortality, of physical law, breaks their chains, and sets the captive free, opening the doors for them that are bound. He who turns to the body for evidence, bases his con- clusions on mortality, on imperfection; but Science saith to man, "God hath all-power." [
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