Repentance is better than sacrifice. The costly balm [1] of Araby, poured on our Master’s feet, had not the value of a single _tear_. Beloved children, the world has need of you,—and more as children than as men and women: it needs your [5] innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontami- nated lives. You need also to watch, and pray that you preserve these virtues unstained, and lose them not through contact with the world. What grander ambition is there than to maintain in yourselves what Jesus loved, and to [10] know that your example, more than words, makes morals for mankind! Address Before The Alumni Of The Massachusetts Metaphysical College, 1895 _My Beloved Students_:—Weeks have passed into [15] months, and months into years, since last we met; but time and space, when encompassed by divine presence, do not separate us. Our hearts have kept time together, and our hands have wrought steadfastly at the same object-lesson, while leagues have lain between us. [20] We may well unite in thanksgiving for the continued progress and unprecedented prosperity of our Cause. It is already obvious that the world’s acceptance and the momentum of Christian Science, increase rapidly as years glide on. [25] As Christian Scientists, you have dared the perilous de- fense of Truth, and have succeeded. You have learned how fleeting is that which men call great; and how per- manent that which God calls good. [Page 111.] You have proven that the greatest piety is scarcely [1] sufficient to demonstrate what you have adopted and taught; that your work, well done, would dignify angels. Faithfully, as meekly, you have toiled all night; and at break of day caught much. At times, your net has [5] been so full that it broke: human pride, creeping into its meshes, extended it beyond safe expansion; then, losing hold of divine Love, you lost your fishes, and pos- sibly blamed others more than yourself. But those whom God makes “fishers of men” will not pull for the shore; [10] like Peter, they launch into the depths, cast their nets on the right side, compensate loss, and gain a higher sense of the true idea. Nothing is lost that God gives: had He filled the net, it would not have broken. Leaving the seed of Truth to its own vitality, it propa- [15] gates: the tares cannot hinder it. Our Master said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away;” and Jesus’ faith in Truth must not ex- ceed that of Christian Scientists who prove its power to be immortal. [20]