do to you, will overcome evil with good, and destroy your own sensitiveness to the power of evil.
The God of all grace be with you, and save you from “spiritual wickedness in high places.”
| Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., | |
| June 3, 1895. |
Address before the Christian Scientist Association of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, in 1893.
Subject: Obedience
My Beloved Students: — This question, ever nearest to my heart, is to-day uppermost: Are we filling the measures of life's music aright, emphasizing its grand strains, swelling the harmony of being with tones whence come glad echoes? As crescendo and diminuendo accent music, so the varied strains of human chords express life's loss or gain, — loss of the pleasures and pains and pride of life: gain of its sweet concord, the courage of honest convictions, and final obedience to spiritual law. The ultimate of scientific research and attainment in divine Science is not an argument: it is not merely saying, but doing, the Word — demonstrating Truth — even as the fruits of watchfulness, prayer, struggles, tears, and triumph.
Obeying the divine Principle which you profess to understand and love, demonstrates Truth. Never absent from your post, never off guard, never ill-humored, never unready to work for God, is obedience; being “faithful over a few things.” If in one instance obedience be lacking, you lose the scientific rule and its reward: namely,
