ere spiritual abstractions, impractical
and impossible to us; but deed, not creed, and practice
more than theory, have given me a higher sense of
Christianity. [30]

The "I" will go to the Father when meekness, purity,
and love, informed by divine Science, the Comforter,

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lead to the one God: then the ego is found not in [1]
matter but in Mind, for there is but one God, one
Mind; and man will then claim no mind apart from God.
Idolatry, the supposition of the existence of many minds
and more than one God, has repeated itself in all manner [5]
of subtleties through the entire centuries, saying as in
the beginning, "Believe in me, and I will make you as
gods;" that is, I will give you a separate mind from God
(good), named evil; and this so-called mind shall open
your eyes and make you know evil, and thus become [10]
material, sensual, evil. But bear in mind that a serpent
said that; therefore that saying came not from Mind,
good, or Truth. God was not the author of it; hence the
words of our Master: "He is a liar, and the father of it;"
also, the character of the votaries to "other gods" which [15]
sprung from it.

The sweet, sacred sense and permanence of man's
unity with his Maker, in Science, illumines our present
existence with the ever-presence and power of God, good.
It opens wide the portals of salvation from sin, sickness, [20]
and death. When the Life that is God, good, shall ap-
pear, "we shall be like Him;" we shall do the works of
Christ, and, in the words of David, "the stone which the
builders refused is become the head stone of the corner,"
because the "I" does go unto the Father, the ego does [25]
arise to spiritual recognition of being, and is exalted,--
not through death, but Life, God understood.

_Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved._--ACTS
xvi. 31.

The Scriptures require more than a simple admission [30]
and feeble acceptance of the truths they present; they

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require a living faith, that so incorporates their lessons [1]
into our lives that these truths become the motive-power
of every act.

ur chosen text is one more frequently used than
many others, perhaps, to exhort people to turn from sin [5]
and to strive after holiness; but we fear the full import
of this text is not yet recognized. It means a _full_ salva-
tion,--man saved from sin, sickness, and death; for,
unless this be so, no man can be wholly fitted for heaven
in the wa