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Mary Baker Eddy

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Book
10
Other Writings
39
Miscellaneous Writings
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1
Precept Upon Precept
8
Sin, Unseen
19
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  	UNSEEN SIN 

  	    Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making
27	sin seem either too large or too little:  if too large, we

  	¹See edition of 1909.
 
 Miscellaneous Writings --- Unseen Sin                                        
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 1	are in the darkness of all the ages, wherein the true sense
  	of the unity of good and the unreality of evil is lost. 
 3	    If good is God, even as God is good, then good and
  	evil can neither be coeval nor coequal, for God is All-in-
  	all. This closes the argument of aught besides Him, aught
 6	else than good. 
  	    If the sense of sin is too little, mortals are in danger
  	of not seeing their own belief in sin, but of seeing too
 9	keenly their neighbor's. Then they are beset with
  	egotism and hypocrisy. Here Christian Scientists must
  	be most watchful. Their habit of mental and audible
12	protest against the reality of sin, tends to make sin less
  	or more to them than to other people. They must either
  	be overcoming sin in themselves, or they must not lose
15	sight of sin; else they are self-deceived sinners of the
  	worst sort.