, and bathes in the [30]
baptismal font of eternal Love.

As you journey, and betimes sigh for rest "beside the

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still waters," ponder this lesson of love. Learn its pur- [1]
pose;and in hope and faith, where heart meets heart
reciprocally blest, drink with me the living waters of the
spirit of my life-purpose,--to impress humanity with
the genuine recognition of practical, operative Christian [5]
Science.

CHAPTER VIII. PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT

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"Thy Will Be Done"

This is the law of Truth to error, "Thou shalt surely
die." This law is a divine energy. Mortals cannot
prevent the fulfilment of this law; it covers all sin and
its effects. God is All, and by virtue of this nature and [5]
allness He is cognizant only of good. Like a legislative
bill that governs millions of mortals whom the legislators
know not, the universal law of God has no knowledge
of evil, and enters unconsciously the human heart and
governs it. [10]

Mortals have only to submit to the law of God, come
into sympathy with it, and to let His will be done. This
unbroken motion of the law of divine Love gives, to the
weary and heavy-laden, rest. But who is willing to do
His will or to let it be done? Mortals obey their own [15]
wills, and so disobey the divine order.

All states and stages of human error are met and
mastered by divine Truth's negativing error in the way
of God's appointing. Those "whom the Lord loveth He
chasteneth." His rod brings to view His love, and inter- [20]
prets to mortals the gospel of healing. David said, "Be-
fore I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I
kept Thy word." He who knows the end from the be-

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ginning, attaches to sin due penalties as its antidotes and [1]
remedies.

Who art thou, vain mortal, that usurpest the preroga-
tive of divine wisdom, and wouldst teach God not to punish
sin? that wouldst shut the mouth of His prophets, [5]
and cry, "Peace, peace; when there is no peace,"--yea,
that healest the wounds of my people slightly?

The Principle of divine Science being Love, the divine
rule of this Principle demonstrates Love, and proves that
human belief fulfils the law of belief, and dies of its own [10]
physics. Metaphysics also demonstrates this Principle of
cure when sin is self-destroyed. Short-sighted physics
admits the so-called pains of matter that destroy its more
dangerous pleasures.

Insomnia compels mortals to learn th