, with houses and
lands. In Genesis we read that God gave man do-
minion over all things; and this assurance is followed [25]
by Jesus' declaration, "All power is given unto me
in heaven and in earth," and by his promise that the
Christlike shall finally sit down at the right hand of the
Father.

Christian Science is more than a prophet or a proph- [30]
ecy: it presents not words alone, but works,--the daily
demonstration of Truth and Love. Its healing and sav-

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ing power was so great a proof of Immanuel and the [1]
realism of Christianity, that it caused even the publi-
cans to justify God. Although clad in panoply of power,
the Pharisees scorned the spirit of Christ in most of its
varied manifestations. To them it was cant and carica- [5]
ture,--always the opposite of what it was. Keen and
alert was their indignation at whatever rebuked hypocrisy
and demanded Christianity in life and religion. In view
of this, Jesus said, "Wisdom is justified of all her
children." [10]

Above the fogs of sense and storms of passion, Chris-
tian Science and its art will rise triumphant; ignorance,
envy, and hatred--earth's harmless thunder--pluck
not their heaven-born wings. Angels, with overtures,
hold charge over both, and announce their Principle and [15]
idea.

It is most fitting that Christian Scientists memorize
the nativity of Jesus. To him who brought a great light
to all ages, and named his burdens light, homage is in-
deed due,--but is bankrupt. I never looked on my [20]
ideal of the face of the Nazarite Prophet; but the one
illustrating my poem approximates it.

Extremists in every age either doggedly deny or fran-
tically affirm what is what: one renders not unto Caesar
"the things that are Caesar's;" the other sees "Helen's [25]
beauty in a brow of Egypt."

Pictures are portions of one's ideal, but this ideal is
not one's personality. Looking behind the veil, he that
perceives a semblance between the thinker and his thought
on canvas, blames him not. [30]

Because my ideal of an angel is a woman without
_feathers_ on her wings,--is it less artistic or less natu-

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ral? Pictures which present disordered phases of ma- [1]
terial conceptions and personality blind with animality,
are not my concepts of angels. What is the material ego,
but the counterfeit of the spiritual?

The truest art of Christian Science is to be a Chris- [5]
tian Scientist; and it demands more than a Raphae