Science and Health Author:Mary Baker Eddy Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH. Remember, Lord, the reproach of Thy servant; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; wherewith Th... more »ine enemies have reproached, O Lord, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of Thine anointed. — Psalms. THE best sermon is the practice of Truth, and ita demonstration through the destruction practical of sin, sickness, and death. Knowing that one Preachme- affection will be supreme in us, and take the lead in our lives, Jesus said, " No man can serve two masters." We do not build safely on false foundations. Truth makes a new creature, wherein old things pass away and " all things are become new." Passions, selfishness, appetites,— all sensuality,—yield to spirituality, and the superabundance of Being is on the side of God We cannot fill vessels already full. They must first be emptied. Let us empty ourselves of error. The ve88elg When the sun shines, let us not hug our tat- of ltuth- ters close about us. The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in Truth through floodtides of Love. Christian perfection is won on no other basis. Grafting holiness upon unholiness, and supposing that sin can be forgiven when it is not forsaken, is as foolish as straining out gnats and swallowing camels. The Scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God's will must be universally done. If men would bring to bear upon the study of the Science of Mind half the faith they bestow upon the so- Divine called pains and pleasures of material sense, study. they wouid not go on from immorality to im morality, until disciplined by the prison and the scaffold ; but the whole human family would be redeemed by the merits of Christ, — the perception and acceptance o...« less