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1	NEW COMMANDMENT 

  	    The divinity of St. John's Gospel brings to view over-
 3	whelming tides of revelation, and its spirit is baptismal;
  	he chronicles this teaching, "A new commandment I
  	give unto you, That ye love one another." 
 6	    Jesus, who so loved the world that he gave his life
  	(in the flesh) for it, saw that Love had a new command-
  	ment even for him. What was it? 
 9	    It must have been a rare revelation of infinite Love, a
  	new tone on the scale ascending, such as eternity is ever
  	sounding. Could I impart to the student the higher
12	sense I entertain of Love, it would partly illustrate the
  	divine energy that brings to human weakness might and
  	majesty. Divine Love eventually causes mortals to turn
15	away from the open sepulchres of sin, and look no more
  	into them as realities. It calls loudly on them to bury
  	the dead out of sight; to forgive and forget whatever is
18	unlike the risen, immortal Love; and to shut out all op-
  	posite sense. Christ enjoins it upon man to help those
  	who know not what he is doing in their behalf, and there-
21	fore curse him; enjoins taking them by the hand and
  	leading them, if possible, to Christ, by loving words and
  	deeds. Charity thus serves as admonition and instruc-
24	tion, and works out the purposes of Love. 
  	    Christian Science, full of grace and truth, is accom-
  	plishing great good, both seen and unseen; but have
27	mortals, with the penetratio...n of Soul, searched the secret
  	chambers of sense? I never knew a student who fully
  	understood my instructions on this point of handling
30	evil, — as to just how this should be done, — and carried
 
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 1	out my ideal. It is safe not to teach prematurely the
  	infant thought in Christian Science — just breathing new
 3	Life and Love — all the claims and modes of evil; there-
  	fore it is best to leave the righteous unfolding of error
  	(as a general rule) alone, and to the special care of the
 6	unerring modes of divine wisdom. This uncovering and
  	punishing of sin must, will come, at some date, to the
  	rescue of humanity. The teacher of divine metaphysics
 9	should impart to his students the general knowledge that
  	he has gained from instruction, observation, and mental
  	practice. 
12	    Experience weighs in the scales of God the sense and
  	power of Truth against the opposite claims of error. 
  	If spiritual sense is not dominant in a student, he will
15	not understand all your instructions; and if evil domi-
  	nates his character, he will pervert the rules of Christian
  	Science, and the last error will be worse than the first — 
18	inasmuch as wilful transgression brings greater torment
  	than ignorance. 
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