gone out of him.” His pure consciousness was discriminating, and rendered this infallible verdict; but he neither held her error by affinity nor by infirmity, for it was detected and dismissed.
This Gospel of Suffering brought Life and bliss. This is earth's Bethel in stone, — its pillow, supporting the ladder which reaches Heaven.
Suffering was the confirmation of Paul's faith. Through “a thorn in the flesh” he learned that spiritual grace was sufficient for him.
Peter rejoiced that he was found worthy to suffer for Christ; because to suffer with him is to reign with him.
Sorrow is the harbinger of joy. Mortal throes of anguish forward the birth of Immortal Being; but Divine Science wipes away all tears.
The only conscious existence in the flesh is error of some sort, — sin, pain, death, — a false sense of Life and happiness. Mortals, if at ease in so-called existence, are in their native element of error, and must become dis-eased, disquieted, before they can get out of error into Truth.
Jesus walked with bleeding feet the thorny earth-road, treading “the winepress alone.” His perse-
