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Forgetfulness of self

We should forget our bodies in remembering good and the human race. Good demands of man every hour, in

which to work out the problem of being. Consecration to good does not lessen man's dependence on God, but heightens it. Neither does consecration di- minish man's obligations to God, but shows the paramount necessity of meeting them. Christian Science takes naught from the perfection of God, but it ascribes to Him the entire glory. By putting "off the old man with his deeds," mortals "put on immortality."

We cannot fathom the nature and quality of God's creation by diving into the shallows of mortal belief. We must reverse our feeble flutterings - our efforts to find life and truth in matter - and rise above the testimony of the material senses, above the mortal to the immortal idea of God. These clearer, higher views inspire the God- like man to reach the absolute centre and circumference of his being.