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12	        WELL DOINGE IS THE FRUITE OF DOINGE WELL
  	                                                                             HERRICK 

  	    This period is big with events. Fraught with history,
15	it repeats the past and portends much for the future. 
  	    The Scriptural metaphors, — of the woman in travail,
  	the great red dragon that stood ready to devour the child
18	as soon as it was born, and the husbandmen that said,
  	"This is the heir:  come, let us kill him, that the in-
  	heritance may be ours," — are type and shadow of this
21	hour. 
  	    A mother's love touches the heart of God, and should
  	it not appeal to human sympathy? Can a mother tell
24	her child one tithe of the agonies that gave that child
  	birth? Can that child conceive of the anguish, until she
  	herself is become a mother? 
27	    Do the children of this period dream of the spiritual
  	Mother's sore travail, through the long night, that has
  	opened their eyes to the light of Christian Science? Cherish
 
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 1	these new-born children that filial obedience to which the
  	Decalogue points with promise of prosperity? Should not
 3	the loving warning, the far-seeing wisdom, the gentle en-
  	treaty, the stern rebuke have been heeded, in return for
  	all that love which brooded tireless over their tende...r
 6	years? for all that love that hath fed them with Truth, — 
  	even the bread that cometh down from heaven, — as the
  	mother-bird tendeth her young in the rock-ribbed nest of
 9	the raven's callow brood! 
  	    And what of the hope of that parent whose children
  	rise up against her; when brother slays brother, and
12	the strength of union grows weak with wickedness? 
  	The victim of mad ambition that saith, "This is
  	the heir:  come, let us kill him, that the inheritance
15	may be ours," goes on to learn that he must at last
  	kill this evil in "self" in order to gain the kingdom
  	of God. 
18	    Envy, the great red dragon of this hour, would obscure
  	the light of Science, take away a third part of the stars
  	from the spiritual heavens, and cast them to the earth. 
21	This is not Science. Per contra, it is the mortal mind
  	sense — mental healing on a material basis — hurling
  	its so-called healing at random, filling with hate its
24	deluded victims, or resting in silly peace upon the
  	laurels of headlong human will. "What shall, therefore,
  	the Lord of the vineyard do?  He will come and de-
27	stroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto
  	others." 
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