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CHAPTER XV.


THE APOCALYPSE.


Thy Christ hath reached his heavenly seat,
Through sorrow and through scars;
The golden lamps are at his feet,
And in his hand the stars.N. L. Frothingham.
 
O Lord, who seest, from yon starry height,
Centred in one the future and the past
Fashioned in Thine own image, —
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Celestial King! Oh let Thy presence pass
Before my Spirit, and an image fair
Shall meet that look of mercy from on high,
As the reflected image in a glass
Doth meet the look of him who seeks it there,
And owes its being to the gazer's eye.
Longfellow, from the Spanish.


MY attention is specially called to the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, — or Revelation of Saint John, — on account of its suggestiveness in connection with this nineteenth century. In the opening of the Sixth Seal there is one distinctive feature which has special reference to the present age, and the establishment of Christian Science in this period.

Revelation xii. 1. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, — a Woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

Heaven is harmony, and Science brings out harmony. The greatest miracle to human sense is the wonder of divine Love. One of the grand necessities in Science is to gain the true idea of God, and this can never be