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Chapter 8 of Science and Health 1910, Last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please refer to SUBTITLE Text content below. 

  	    The divine demand, "Be ye therefore perfect," is sci-
 1	entific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are
  	indispensable. Individuals are consistent who, watching
 3	and praying, can "run, and not be weary; . . . 	                     Patience
  	walk, and not faint," who gain good rapidly	                             and final
  	and hold their position, or attain slowly and	                             perfection 
 6	yield not to discouragement. God requires perfection,
  	but not until the battle between Spirit and flesh is fought
  	and the victory won. To stop eating, drinking, or being
 9	clothed materially before the spiritual facts of existence
  	are gained step by step, is not legitimate. When we wait
  	patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs
12	our path. Imperfect mortals grasp the ultimate of spir-
  	itual perfection slowly; but to begin aright and to con-
  	tinue the strife of demonstrating the great problem of
15	being, is doing much. 
  	    During the sensual ages, absolute Christian Science
  	may not be achieved prior to the change called death,
18	for we have not the power to demonstrate what we do
  	not understand. But the human self must be evangel-
  	ized. This task God demands us to accept lovingly
21	to-day, and to abandon so fast as practical the material,
  	and to work out the spiritual which determines the out-
  	ward and actual.