It has long been a question of earnest import, How shall mankind worship the most adorable, but most unadored,—and where shall begin that praise that shall never end? Beneath, above, beyond, methinks I hear [25] the soft, sweet sigh of angels answering, “So live, that your lives attest your sincerity and resound His praise.” Music is the harmony of being; but the music of Soul affords the only strains that thrill the chords of feeling and awaken the heart’s harpstrings. Moved by mind, [30] your many-throated organ, in imitative tones of many [Page 107.] instruments, praises Him; but even the sweetness and [1] beauty in and of this temple that praise Him, are earth’s accents, and must not be mistaken for the oracles of God. Art must not prevail over Science. Christianity is not superfluous. Its redemptive power is seen in sore trials, [5] self-denials, and crucifixions of the flesh. But these come to the rescue of mortals, to admonish them, and plant the feet steadfastly in Christ. As we rise above the seem- ing mists of sense, we behold more clearly that all the heart’s homage belongs to God. [10] More love is the great need of mankind. A pure af- fection, concentric, forgetting self, forgiving wrongs and forestalling them, should swell the lyre of human love. Three cardinal points must be gained before poor humanity is regenerated and Christian Science is dem- [15] onstrated: (1) A proper sense of sin; (2) repentance; (3) the understanding of good. Evil is a negation: it never started with time, and it cannot keep pace with eternity. Mortals’ false senses pass through three states and stages of human consciousness before yielding error. [20] The deluded sense must first be shown its falsity through a knowledge of evil as evil, so-called. Without a sense of one’s oft-repeated violations of divine law, the in- dividual may become morally blind, and this deplorable mental state is moral idiocy. The lack of seeing one’s [25] deformed mentality, and of _repentance_ therefor, deep, never to be repented of, is retarding, and in certain mor- bid instances stopping, the growth of Christian Scientists. Without a knowledge of his sins, and repentance so severe that it destroys them, no person is or can be a Christian [30] Scientist. Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin. [Page 108.] The sensitive, sorrowing saint thinks too much of it: the [1] sordid sinner, or the so-called Christian asleep, thinks too little of sin. To allow sin of any sort is anomalous in Christian Scientists, claiming, as they do, that good is infinite, All. [5] Our Master, in his definition of Satan as a liar from the beginning, attested the absolute powerlessness—yea, nothingness—of evil: since a lie, being without founda- tion in fact, is merely a falsity; spiritually, literally, it _is nothing_. [10]