the stalk, instruct the ear, and crown the full corn in the [1] ear,—then, are mortals looking up, waiting on God, and committing their way unto Him who tosses earth’s mass of wonders into their hands? When downtrodden like the grass, did it make them humble, loving, obedi- [5] ent, full of good odor, and cause them to wait patiently on God for man’s rich heritage,—“dominion over all the earth”? Thus abiding in Truth, the warmth and sunlight of prayer and praise and understanding will ripen the fruits of Spirit, and goodness will have its spring- [10] tide of freedom and greatness. When the white-winged dove feeds her callow brood, nestles them under her wings, and, in tones tremulous with tenderness, calls them to her breast, do mortals remember _their_ cradle hymns, and thank God for those [15] redemptive words from a mother’s lips which taught them the Lord’s Prayer? O gentle presence, peace and joy and power; O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour; Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight! [20] Keep Thou my child on upward wing to-night. Midst the falling leaves of old-time faiths, above the frozen crust of creed and dogma, the divine Mind-force, filling all space and having all power, upheaves the earth. In sacred solitude divine Science evolved nature as thought, [25] and thought as things. This supreme potential Principle reigns in the realm of the real, and is “God with us,” the I AM. As mortals awake from their dream of material sen- sation, this adorable, all-inclusive God, and all earth’s [30] hieroglyphics of Love, are understood; and infinite Mind [Page 332.] is seen kindling the stars, rolling the worlds, reflecting [1] all space and Life,—but not life in matter. Wisely governing, informing the universe, this Mind is Truth,— not laws of matter. Infinitely just, merciful, and wise, this Mind is Love,—but not fallible love. [5] Spring is here! and doors that closed on Christian Science in “the long winter of our discontent,” are open flung. Its seedtime has come to enrich earth and en- robe man in righteousness; may its sober-suited autumn follow with hues of heaven, ripened sheaves, and harvest [10] songs. “Where Art Thou?” In the allegory of Genesis, third chapter and ninth verse, two mortals, walking in the cool of the day midst the stately palms, many-hued blossoms, perfume-laden [15] breezes, and crystal streams of the Orient, pondered the things of man and God. A sense of evil is supposed to have spoken, been listened to, and afterwards to have formed an evil sense that blinded the eyes of reason, masked with deformity the [20] glories of revelation, and shamed the face of mortals. What was this sense? Error versus Truth: first, a supposition; second, a false belief; third, suffering; fourth, death. Is man the supposer, false believer, sufferer? [25]