Chapter X - Science Of Being
Moral courage
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and the grandeur and bliss of a spiritual sense, which
and the grandeur and bliss of a spiritual sense, which
silences the material or corporeal. Then he not only will
be saved, but is saved.
Final destruction of error
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Mortals suppose that they can live without goodness,
Mortals suppose that they can live without goodness,
when God is good and the only real Life. What is the
result? Understanding little about the divine
Principle which saves and heals, mortals get
rid of sin, sickness, and death only in belief. These errors
are not thus really destroyed, and must therefore cling
to mortals until, here or hereafter, they gain the true un-
derstanding of God in the Science which destroys human
delusions about Him and reveals the grand realities of
His allness.
Promise perpetual
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This understanding of man's power, when he is
This understanding of man's power, when he is
equipped by God, has sadly disappeared from Christian
history. For centuries it has been dormant, a
lost element of Christianity. Our missionaries
carry the Bible to India, but can it be said that they
explain it practically, as Jesus did, when hundreds of
persons die there annually from serpent-bites? Under-
standing spiritual law and knowing that there is no mate-
rial law, Jesus said: "These signs shall follow them that
believe, . . . they shall take up serpents, and if they
drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They
shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." It
were well had Christendom believed and obeyed this
sacred saying.
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Jesus' promise is perpetual. Had it been given only
Jesus' promise is perpetual. Had it been given only
to his immediate disciples, the Scriptural passage would
read you, not they. The purpose of his great life-work
extends through time and includes universal humanity.
Its Principle is infinite, reaching beyond the pale of a