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at neither obliv- [15] ion nor dreams can recuperate the life of man, whose Life is God, for God neither slumbers nor sleeps. The loss of gustatory enjoyment and the ills of indigestion tend to rebuke appetite and destroy the peace of a false sense. False pleasure will be, is, chastened; it has no [20] right to be at peace. To suffer for having "other gods before me," is divinely wise. Evil passions die in their own flames, but are punished before extinguished. Peace has no foothold on the false basis that evil should be concealed and that life and happiness should still attend [25] it. Joy is self-sustained; goodness and blessedness are one: suffering is self-inflicted, and good is the master of evil. To this scientific logic and the logic of events, egotism and false charity say, " 'Not so, Lord;' it is wise to [30] cover iniquity and punish it not, then shall mortals have peace." Divine Love, as unconscious as incapable of [Page 210.] error, pursues the evil that hideth itself, strips off its [1] disguises, and--behold the result: evil, uncovered, is self-destroyed. Christian Science never healed a patient without prov- ing with mathematical certainty that error, when found [5] out, is two-thirds destroyed, and the remaining third kills itself. Do men whine over a nest of serpents, and post around it placards warning people not to stir up these reptiles because they have stings? Christ said, "They shall take up serpents;" and, "Be ye therefore [10] wise as serpents and harmless as doves." The wisdom of a serpent is to hide itself. The wisdom of God, as revealed in Christian Science, brings the serpent out of its hole, handles it, and takes away its sting. Good deeds are harmless. He who has faith in woman's special adapt- [15] ability to lead on Christian Science, will not be shocked when she puts her foot on the head of the serpent, as it biteth at the heel. Intemperance begets a belief of disordered brains, membranes, stomach, and nerves; and this belief serves [20] to uncover and kill this lurking serpent, intemperance, that hides itself under the false pretense of human need, innocent enjoyment, and a medical prescription. The belief in venereal diseases tears the black mask from the shameless brow of licentiousness, torments its victim, and [25] thus may save him from his destroyer. Charity has the courage of conviction; it may suffer long, but has neither the cowardice nor the foolhardiness
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