If Christian Science reiterates St. Paul's teaching, we,
as Christian Scientists, should give to the world convincing proof of the
validity of this scientific statement of being. Having perceived, in
advance of others, this scientific fact, we owe to ourselves and to the
world a struggle for its demonstration.
At some period and in some way the conclusion must be met that whatsoever
seems true, and yet contradicts divine Science and St. Paul's text, must be
and is false; and that whatsoever seems to be good, and yet errs, though
acknowledging the true way, is really evil.
As dross is separated from gold, so Christ's baptism of fire, his
purification through suffering, consumes whatsoever is of sin. Therefore
this purgation of divine mercy, destroying all error, leaves no flesh, no
matter, to the mental consciousness.
When all fleshly belief is annihilated, and every spot and blemish on the
disk of consciousness is removed, then, and not till then, will immortal
Truth be found true, and scientific teaching, preaching, and practice be
essentially one. "Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing
which he alloweth ... for whatsoever is not of faith is sin." (Romans xiv.
22, 23.)
There is no "lo here! or lo there!" in divine Science; its manifestation
must be "the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever," since Science is
eternally one, and unchanging, in Principle, rule, and demonstration.
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