musician, without being able to explain them. So divinely imbued were they with the Spirit, that the letter could not hinder them; and the letter, without the Spirit, would have made void their example. There is no question but what Jesus understood Christian Science, and taught its Divine Principle to his students. The basis of a right action is right thought. Both should be understood, or you may lose both.
The point, beyond faith, is to find the footsteps of Truth, the way in Science to health and holiness, — to reach the Horeb height where God is revealed. The corner-stone of this spiritual building is purity.
The baptism of Spirit washes the body of all the impurities of flesh, and signifies that such as see God are approaching spiritual Life and its demonstration, — healing the sick and destroying error.
It were “as easy for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,” as for a mortal to enter the kingdom of heaven, become immortalized, without spiritual baptism and regeneration. It is only a question of time “when all shall know this, from the least unto the greatest.” Denial of the claims of matter is a footstep towards the joys of Spirit, — man's freedom, and triumph over the body.
The sensualist's treasures are laid up “where moth and rust corrupt.” Mortality is their doom. Sin breaks in upon them, and robs their fleeting joys. The sensualist's affections are imaginary, whimsical, unreal, even as his pleasures are. Falsehood, envy, ambition, hypocrisy, malice, hate, steal away the treasures of earth. Stripped of its exteriors, what a mocking spectacle is error.
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