You have begun at the numeration-table of Christian Science, and nothing but wrong intention can hinder your advancement. Working and praying, with true motives on your part, your Father will open the way. “If ye would run, who shall hinder you?” In this spirit are the lines of Mrs. Hemans: —
| Is it not much that I may worship Him, |
| With nought my spirit's breathings to control, |
| And feel His presence in the vast and dim |
| And whispering woods, where dying thunders roll |
| From the far cataracts? Shall I not rejoice |
| That I have learned at last to know His voice |
| From man's ? — I will rejoice! My soaring Soul |
| Now hath redeemed her birthright of the day, |
| And won, through clouds, to Him, her own unfettered way! |
Saul of Tarsus only beheld the way, — the Christ, or Truth, — when his uncertain sense of right had changed to a spiritual sense that is always right. Then the man was changed. Thought assumed a nobler standpoint and became more spiritual. Then Paul learned the wrong he had done in persecuting Christianity, which he had not understood. He beheld for the first time the true idea of Love, and learned a lesson of Divine Science.
Truth never destroys its own idea. It is the Substance, that cannot destroy its own reflection. A personal sense, or error, may hide Truth, health, and harmony, as the mist obscures the mountain; but Science never obscures the celestial peaks.
Man's wisdom finds no satisfaction in sin, but personal sense finds pleasure therein. The drunkard thinks he enjoys drunkenness; and you cannot make the inebriate leave his besottedness, until his personal sense of pleasure
