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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK

 1	    The following selections from "Science and Health
  	with Key to the Scriptures," pages 568-571, were read
 3	from the platform. The impressive stillness of the audi-
  	ence indicated close attention. 

  	     Revelation xii. 10-12. And I heard a loud voice saying in
 6	 heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the king-
  	 dom of our God, and the power of His Christ:  for the accuser
  	 of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our
 9	 God  day and night. And they overcame him by the blood
  	 of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they
  	 loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye
12	 heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters
  	 of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto
  	 you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath
15	 but a short time. 

  	    For victory over a single sin, we give thanks and mag-
  	nify the Lord of Hosts. What shall we say of the mighty
18	conquest over all sin? A louder song, sweeter than has
  	ever before reached high heaven, now rises clearer and
  	nearer to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is not
21	there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting
  	strain. Self-abnegation, by which we lay down all for
  	Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error, is a rule in
24	Christian Science. This rule clearly interprets God as
 

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 1	divine Principle, — as Life, represented by the Father;
  	as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented
 3	by the Mother. Every mortal at some period, here or here-
  	after, must grapple with and overcome the mortal belief
  	in a power opposed to God. 
 6	    The Scripture, "Thou hast been faithful over a few
  	things, I will make thee ruler over many," is literally ful-
  	filled, when we are conscious of the supremacy of Truth,
 9	by which the nothingness of error is seen; and we know
  	that the nothingness of error is in proportion to its wicked-
  	ness. He that touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters
12	his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof
  	of healing, — in a sweet and certain sense that God is
  	Love. Alas for those who break faith with divine Science
15	and fail to strangle the serpent of sin as well as of sickness! 
  	They are dwellers still in the deep darkness of belief. 
  	They are in the surging sea of error, not struggling to lift
18	their heads above the drowning wave. 
  	    What must the end be? They must eventually expiate
  	their sin through suffering. The sin, which one has made
21	his bosom companion, comes back to him at last with
  	accelerated force, for the devil knoweth his time is short. 
  	Here the Scriptures declare that evil is temporal, not
24	eternal. The dragon is at last stung to death by his own
  	malice; but how many periods of torture it may take to
  	remove all sin, must depend upon sin's obduracy. 

27	     Revelation xii. 13. And when the dragon saw that he was
  	 cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought
  	 forth the man child. 

 

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 1	    The march of mind and of honest investigation will
  	bring the hour when the people will chain, with fetters of
 3	some sort, the growing occultism of this period. The
  	present apathy as to the tendency of certain active yet un-
  	seen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another
 6	extreme mortal mood, — into human indignation; for
  	one extreme follows another. 

  	     Revelation xii. 15, 16. And the serpent cast out of his
 9	 mouth water as a flood, after the woman, that he might
  	 cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth
  	 helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and
12	 swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his
  	 mouth. 

  	    Millions of unprejudiced minds — simple seekers for
15	Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert — are wait-
  	ing and watching for rest and drink. Give them a cup of
  	cold water in Christ's name, and never fear the conse-
18	quences. What if the old dragon should send forth a new
  	flood to drown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown
  	your voice with its roar, nor again sink the world into the
21	deep waters of chaos and old night. In this age the earth
  	will help the woman; the spiritual idea will be understood. 
  	Those ready for the blessing you impart will give thanks. 
24	The waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the
  	wave. 
  	    When God heals the sick or the sinning, they should
27	know the great benefit which Mind has wrought. They
  	should also know the great delusion of mortal mind, when
  	it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to open
 

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 1	the eyes of the people to the power of good resident in
  	divine Mind, but they are not so willing to point out the
 3	evil in human thought, and expose evil's hidden mental
  	ways of accomplishing iniquity. 
  	    Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary to
 6	ensure the avoidance of the evil? Because people like
  	you better when you tell them their virtues than when you
  	tell them their vices. It requires the spirit of our blessed
 9	Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk human dis-
  	pleasure for the sake of doing right and benefiting our
  	race. Who is telling mankind of the foe in ambush? Is
12	the informer one who sees the foe? If so, listen and be
  	wise. Escape from evil, and designate those as unfaithful
  	stewards who have seen the danger and yet have given
15	no warning. 
  	    At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil
  	with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom
18	and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the
  	panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The
  	cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the
21	one divinity.SHOW ALL