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1     "THY WILL BE DONE" 

  	    This is the law of Truth to error, "Thou shalt surely
 3	die." This law is a divine energy. Mortals cannot
  	prevent the fulfilment of this law; it covers all sin and
  	its effects. God is All, and by virtue of this nature and
 6	allness He is cognizant only of good. Like a legislative
  	bill that governs millions of mortals whom the legislators
  	know not, the universal law of God has no knowledge
 9	of evil, and enters unconsciously the human heart and
  	governs it. 
  	    Mortals have only to submit to the law of God, come
12	into sympathy with it, and to let His will be done. This
  	unbroken motion of the law of divine Love gives, to the
  	weary and heavy-laden, rest. But who is willing to do
15	His will or to let it be done? Mortals obey their own
  	wills, and so disobey the divine order. 
  	    All states and stages of human error are met and
18	mastered by divine Truth's negativing error in the way
  	of God's appointing. Those "whom the Lord loveth He
  	chasteneth." His rod brings to view His love, and inter-
21	prets to mortals the gospel of healing. David said, "Be-
  	fore I was afflicted I went astray:  but now have I
  	kept Thy word." He who knows the end from the be-
 
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 1	ginning, attaches to sin due penalties as its antidotes and
  	remedies. 
 3	    Who art thou, vain mortal, that usurpest the pr...eroga-
  	tive of divine wisdom, and wouldst teach God not to pun-
  	ish sin? that wouldst shut the mouth of His prophets,
 6	and cry, "Peace, peace; when there is no peace," — yea,
  	that healest the wounds of my people slightly? 
  	    The Principle of divine Science being Love, the divine
 9	rule of this Principle demonstrates Love, and proves that
  	human belief fulfils the law of belief, and dies of its own
  	physics. Metaphysics also demonstrates this Principle of
12	cure when sin is self-destroyed. Short-sighted physics
  	admits the so-called pains of matter that destroy its more
  	dangerous pleasures. 
15	    Insomnia compels mortals to learn that neither obliv-
  	ion nor dreams can recuperate the life of man, whose
  	Life is God, for God neither slumbers nor sleeps. The
18	loss of gustatory enjoyment and the ills of indigestion
  	tend to rebuke appetite and destroy the peace of a false
  	sense. False pleasure will be, is, chastened; it has no
21	right to be at peace. To suffer for having "other gods
  	before me," is divinely wise. Evil passions die in their
  	own flames, but are punished before extinguished. Peace
24	has no foothold on the false basis that evil should be
  	concealed and that life and happiness should still attend
  	it. Joy is self-sustained; goodness and blessedness are
27	one:  suffering is self-inflicted, and good is the master of
  	evil. 
  	    To this scientific logic and the logic of events, egotism
30	and false charity say, "'Not so, Lord;' it is wise to
  	cover iniquity and punish it not, then shall mortals have
  	peace." Divine Love, as unconscious as incapable of

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 1	error, pursues the evil that hideth itself, strips off its
  	disguises, and — behold the result:  evil, uncovered, is
 3	self-destroyed. 
  	    Christian Science never healed a patient without prov-
  	ing with mathematical certainty that error, when found
 6	out, is two-thirds destroyed, and the remaining third
  	kills itself. Do men whine over a nest of serpents, and
  	post around it placards warning people not to stir up
 9	these reptiles because they have stings? Christ said,
  	"They shall take up serpents;" and, "Be ye therefore
  	wise as serpents and harmless as doves." The wisdom
12	of a serpent is to hide itself. The wisdom of God, as
  	revealed in Christian Science, brings the serpent out of
  	its hole, handles it, and takes away its sting. Good deeds
15	are harmless. He who has faith in woman's special adapt-
  	ability to lead on Christian Science, will not be shocked
  	when she puts her foot on the head of the serpent, as it
18	biteth at the heel. 
  	    Intemperance begets a belief of disordered brains,
  	membranes, stomach, and nerves; and this belief serves
21	to uncover and kill this lurking serpent, intemperance,
  	that hides itself under the false pretense of human need,
  	innocent enjoyment, and a medical prescription. The
24	belief in venereal diseases tears the black mask from the
  	shameless brow of licentiousness, torments its victim, and
  	thus may save him from his destroyer. 
27	    Charity has the courage of conviction; it may suffer
  	long, but has neither the cowardice nor the foolhardiness
  	to cover iniquity. Charity is Love; and Love opens
30	the eyes of the blind, rebukes error, and casts it out. 
  	Charity never flees before error, lest it should suffer
  	from an encounter. Love your enemies, or you will not
 
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 1	lose them; and if you love them, you will help to reform
  	them. 
 3	    Christ points the way of salvation. His mode is not
  	cowardly, uncharitable, nor unwise, but it teaches mor-
  	tals to handle serpents and cast out evil. Our own vision
 6	must be clear to open the eyes of others, else the blind
  	will lead the blind and both shall fall. The sickly charity
  	that supplies criminals with bouquets has been dealt
 9	with summarily by the good judgment of people in
  	the old Bay State. Inhuman medical bills, class legisla-
  	tion, and Salem witchcraft, are not indigenous to her
12	soil. 
  	    "Out of the depths have I delivered thee." The
  	drowning man just rescued from the merciless wave is
15	unconscious of suffering. Why, then, do you break his
  	peace and cause him to suffer in coming to life? Because
  	you wish to save him from death. Then, if a criminal
18	is at peace, is he not to be pitied and brought back to
  	life? Or, are you afraid to do this lest he suffer, trample
  	on your pearls of thought, and turn on you and rend you? 
21	Cowardice is selfishness. When one protects himself at
  	his neighbor's cost, let him remember, "Whosoever will
  	save his life shall lose it." He risks nothing who obeys
24	the law of God, and shall find the Life that cannot be
  	lost. 
  	    Our Master said, "Ye shall drink indeed of my cup." 
27	Jesus stormed sin in its citadels and kept peace with
  	God. He drank this cup giving thanks, and he said to
  	his followers, "Drink ye all of it," — drink it all, and let
30	all drink of it. He lived the spirit of his prayer, — "Thy
  	kingdom come." Shall we repeat our Lord's Prayer
  	when the heart denies it, refuses to bear the cross and
 
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 1	to fulfil the conditions of our petition? Human policy
  	is a fool that saith in his heart, "No God" — a caressing
 3	Judas that betrays you, and commits suicide. This god-
  	less policy never knows what happiness is, and how it is
  	obtained. 
 6	    Jesus did his work, and left his glorious career for our
  	example. On the shore of Gennesaret he tersely re-
  	minded his students of their worldly policy. They had
 9	suffered, and seen their error. This experience caused
  	them to remember the reiterated warning of their Mas-
  	ter and cast their nets on the right side. When they
12	were fit to be blest, they received the blessing. The
  	ultimatum of their human sense of ways and means
  	ought to silence ours. One step away from the direct
15	line of divine Science cost them — what? A speedy re-
  	turn under the reign of difficulties, darkness, and unre-
  	quited toil. 
18	    The currents of human nature rush in against the right
  	course; health, happiness, and life flow not into one of
  	their channels. The law of Love saith, "Not my will,
21	but Thine, be done," and Christian Science proves that
  	human will is lost in the divine; and Love, the white
  	Christ, is the remunerator. 
24	    If, consciously or unconsciously, one is at work in a
  	wrong direction, who will step forward and open his
  	eyes to see this error? He who is a Christian Scientist,
27	who has cast the beam out of his own eye, speaks plainly
  	to the offender and tries to show his errors to him before
  	letting another know it. 
30	    Pitying friends took down from the cross the fainting
  	form of Jesus, and buried it out of their sight. His dis-
  	ciples, who had not yet drunk of his cup, lost sight of
 
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 1	him; they could not behold his immortal being in the
  	form of Godlikeness. 
 3	    All that I have written, taught, or lived, that is good,
  	flowed through cross-bearing, self-forgetfulness, and my
  	faith in the right. Suffering or Science, or both, in the
 6	proportion that their instructions are assimilated, will
  	point the way, shorten the process, and consummate the
  	joys of acquiescence in the methods of divine Love. The
 9	Scripture saith, "He that covereth his sins shall not pros-
  	per." No risk is so stupendous as to neglect opportuni-
  	ties which God giveth, and not to forewarn and forearm
12	our fellow-mortals against the evil which, if seen, can
  	be destroyed. 
  	    May my friends and my enemies so profit by these
15	waymarks, that what has chastened and illumined
  	another's way may perfect their own lives by gentle
  	benedictions. In every age, the pioneer reformer must
18	pass through a baptism of fire. But the faithful adher-
  	ents of Truth have gone on rejoicing. Christian Science
  	gives a fearless wing and firm foundation. These are
21	its inspiring tones from the lips of our Master, "My
  	sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow
  	me:  and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall
24	never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of
  	my hand." He is but "an hireling" who fleeth when he
  	seeth the wolf coming. 
27	    Loyal Christian Scientists, be of good cheer:  the night
  	is far spent, the day dawns; God's universal kingdom
  	will appear, Love will reign in every heart, and His will
30	be done on earth as in heaven. 
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