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death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and
ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!
for the Devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he
knoweth that he hath but a short time.
For victory over a single sin we give thanks, and magnify the Lord of
Hosts. Then what shall we say of the mighty conquest over all sin? A
louder song, sweeter than has ever before reached high Heaven, now
rises clearer and nearer to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is
not there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting strain.
Self-abnegation--by which we lay down all for Christ, Truth, in our
warfare against error--is a rule in Christian Science. This rule clearly
interprets God as divine Principle,--as Life, represented by the Father;
as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented by the mother.
Every mortal, at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with and
overcome the mortal belief in a power opposed to God.
The Scripture, "Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make
thee ruler over many," is literally fulfilled, when we are conscious of
the supremacy of Truth, whereby the nothingness of error is seen, and
we know that its nothingness is in proportion to its wickedness. He that
touches the hem of Christ's robe, and masters his mortal belief,
animality and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing,--in a sweet and
certain sense that God is Love. Alas for those who break faith with
Divine Science, and fail to strangle the serpent of sin, as well as of
sickness! They are dwellers still in the deep darkness of belief. They
are in the surging sea of error, not struggling to lift their heads above
the drowning wave.
What must the end be? They must eventually expiate their sin through
suffering. The sin which one has made his bosom companion, comes
back to him at last with accelerated force; for the evil knoweth its time
is short. Here the Scriptures declare that evil is temporal, not eternal.

The dragon is at last stung to death by his own malice; but how many
periods of self-torture it may take to remove all sin and its effects, must
depend upon its obduracy.
Revelation xii, 13. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the
earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
The march of mind and honest investigation will bring the hour when
the people will chain, with fetters of some sort, the growing occultism
of this period. The present apathy as to the tendency of certain active
yet unseen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another
extreme mortal mood,--into human indignation; for one extreme
follows another.
Revelation xii, 15, 16. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a
flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the
flood. And the earth helped the woman; and the earth opened her mouth,
and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Millions of unprejudiced minds--simple seekers for Truth, weary
wanderers, athirst in the desert--are waiting and watching for rest and
drink. Give them a cup of cold water in Christ's name, and never fear
the consequences. What if the old dragon sends forth a new flood, to
drown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown your voice with its roar,
nor again sink the world into the deep waters of chaos and old night. In
this age the earth will help the woman; the spiritual idea will be
understood. Those ready for the blessing you impart will give thanks.
The waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the wave.
When God heals the sick or the sinful, they should know the great
benefit Mind has wrought. They should also know the great delusion of
mortal mind, when it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to
open the eyes of the people to the power of good resident in divine
Mind; but they are not as willing to point out the evil in human thought,
and expose its hidden mental ways of accomplishing iniquity.
Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary, to ensure the
avoidance of the evil? Because people like you better when you tell

them their virtues, than when you tell them their vices. It requires the
spirit of our great Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk human
displeasure, for the sake of doing right and benefiting our race. Who is
telling mankind of their foe in ambush? Is the informer one who sees
the foe? If so, listen and be wise. Escape from evil, and designate those
as unfaithful stewards, who have seen