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down, which
accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they
loved not their lives unto the 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. 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 Truth, or Christ, 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, by which the nothingness of error is seen; and
we know that the nothingness of error is in proportion to its wickedness.
He that touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters his mortal beliefs,
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 devil knoweth his
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 torture it may take to remove all sin, must depend
upon sin's 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 of 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 should send 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 sinning, they should know the great
benefit which 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 so willing to point out the evil in human
thought, and expose evil's 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 blessed Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk human
displeasure for the sake of doing