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DIVINE SCIENCE 

21	    What is it but another name for Christian Science,
  	the cognomen of all true religion, the quintessence of
  	Christianity, that heals disease and sin and destroys
24	death! Part and parcel of Truth and Love, wherever
  	one ray of its effulgence looks in upon the heart, behold
  	a better man, woman, or child. 
27	    Science is the fiat of divine intelligence, which, hoary
  	with eternity, touches time only to take away its frailty. 
  	That it rests on everlasting foundations, the sequence
30	proves. 

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 1	    Have I discovered and founded at this period Chris-
  	tian Science, that which reveals the truth of Love, — is
 3	the question. 
  	    And how can you be certain of so momentous an
  	affirmative? By proving its effect on yourself to be — 
 6	divine. 
  	    What is the Principle and rule of Christian Science? 
  	    Infinite query! Wonder in heaven and on earth, — 
 9	who shall say? The immaculate Son of the Blessed
  	has spoken of them as the Golden Rule and its Principle,
  	God who is Love. Listen, and he illustrates the rule:
12	"Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the
  	midst of them, and said, . . . Whosoever . . . shall
  	humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest
15	in the kingdom of heaven." 
  	    Harmony is heaven. Science brings out harmony;
  	but this harmony is ...not understood unless it produces a
18	growing affection for all good, and consequent disaffec-
  	tion for all evil, hypocrisy, evil-speaking, lust, envy, hate. 
  	Where these exist, Christian Science has no sure foot-
21	hold:  they obscure its divine element, and thus seem
  	to extinguish it. Even the life of Jesus was belittled
  	and belied by personalities possessing these defacing de-
24	formities. Only the devout Marys, and such as lived
  	according to his precepts, understood the concrete char-
  	acter of him who taught — by the wayside, in humble
27	homes, to itching ears and to dull disciples — the words
  	of Life. 
  	    The ineffable Life and light which he reflected through
30	divine Science is again reproduced in the character which
  	sensualism, as heretofore, would hide or besmear. Sin
  	of any sort tends to hide from an individual this grand  

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1	verity in Science, that the appearing of good in an in-
  	dividual involves the disappearing of evil. He who first
 3	brings to humanity some great good, must have gained
  	its height beforehand, to be able to lift others toward
  	it. I first proved to myself, not by "words," — these
 6	afford no proof, — but by demonstration of Christian
  	Science, that its Principle is divine. All must go and do
  	likewise. 
 9	    Faith illumined by works; the spiritual understanding
  	which cannot choose but to labor and love; hope hold-
  	ing steadfastly to good in the midst of seething evil;
12	charity that suffereth long and is kind, but cancels not
  	sin until it be destroyed, — these afford the only rule I
  	have found which demonstrates Christian Science. 
15	    And remember, a pure faith in humanity will subject
  	one to deception; the uses of good, to abuses from evil;
  	and calm strength will enrage evil. But the very heavens
18	shall laugh at them, and move majestically to your de-
  	fense when the armies of earth press hard upon you. 

  	    "Thou must be true thyself,
21	       If thou the truth wouldst teach;
  	     Thy soul must overflow, if thou
  	       Another's soul wouldst reach;
24	     It needs the overflow of heart,
  	       To give the lips full speech. 
  	     "Think truly, and thy thoughts
27	       Shall the world's famine feed;
  	     Speak truly, and each word of thine
  	       Shall be a fruitful seed;
30	     Live truly, and thy life shall be
  	       A great and noble creed." 
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