359:18 True Christianity is to be honored wherever found, but when shall we arrive at the goal which that word implies? From Puritan parents, the discov- 359:21 erer of Christian Science early received her religious education. In childhood, she often listened with joy to these words, falling from the lips of her 359:24 saintly mother, "God is able to raise you up from sick- ness;" and she pondered the meaning of that Scripture she so often quotes: "And these signs shall follow them 359:27 that believe; . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Two different artists A Christian Scientist and an opponent are like two 359:30 artists. One says: "I have spiritual ideals, indestructible and glorious. When others see them as I do, in their true light and loveliness, - and 360:1 know that these ideals are real and eternal because drawn from Truth, - they will find that nothing is lost, and all 360:3 is won, by a right estimate of what is real." The other artist replies: "You wrong my experience. I have no mind-ideals except those which are both mental 360:6 and material. It is true that materiality renders these ideals imperfect and destructible; yet I would not ex- change mine for thine, for mine give me such personal 360:9 pleasure, and they are not so shockingly transcendental. They require less self-abnegation, and keep Soul well out of sight. Moreover, I have no notion of losing my old 360:12 doctrines or human opinions." Choose ye to-day Dear reader, which mind-picture or externalized thought shall be real to you, - the material or the spiritual? 360:15 Both you cannot have. You are bringing out your own ideal. This ideal is either temporal or eternal. Either Spirit or matter is your model. If you 360:18 try to have two models, then you practically have none. Like a pendulum in a clock, you will be thrown back and forth, striking the ribs of matter and swinging between the 360:21 real and the unreal. Hear the wisdom of Job, as given in the excellent trans- lation of the late Rev. George R. Noyes, D.D.: - 360:24 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall man be more pure than his Maker? Behold, He putteth no trust in His ministering spirits, 360:27 And His angels He chargeth with frailty.