Seek to occupy no position whereto you do not
feel that God ordains you. Never forsake your post without due deliberation
and light, but always wait for God's finger to point the way. The loyal
Christian Scientist is incapable alike of abusing the practice of
Mind-healing or of healing on a material basis.
The tempter is vigilant, awaiting only an opportunity to divide the ranks
of Christian Science and scatter the sheep abroad; but "if God be for us,
who can be against us?" The Cause, _our_ Cause, is highly prosperous,
rapidly spreading over the globe; and the morrow will crown the effort of
to-day with a diadem of gems from the New Jerusalem.
EXEMPLIFICATION
To energize wholesome spiritual warfare, to rebuke vainglory, to offset
boastful emptiness, to crown patient toil, and rejoice in the spirit and
power of Christian Science, we must ourselves be true. There is but one way
of _doing_ good, and that is to _do_ it! There is but one way of _being_
good, and that is to _be_ good!
Art thou still unacquainted with thyself? Then be introduced to this self.
"Know thyself!" as said the classic Grecian motto. Note well the falsity of
this mortal self! Behold its vileness, and remember this poverty-stricken
"stranger that is within thy gates." Cleanse every stain from this
wanderer's soiled garments, wipe the dust from his feet and the tears from
his eyes, that you may behold the real man, the fellow-saint of a holy
household.
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