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FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH.
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Now I ask, Is there any more reality in the waking dream than in this sleeping dream? There cannot be, since there is no mortality, either of mind or body, and whatever appears to material sense is a mortal dream; for as man, matter has no more sense (aside from his belief) than it has as a tree. Truly says Bowring: —

. . . What am I then? Naught:
But I live, and on hope's pinions fly
Eager towards Thy presence; for in Thee
I live and breathe and dwell, aspiring high,
Even to the throne of Thy divinity.
I am, O God, and surely Thou must be.
Thou art; directing, guiding all, Thou art!
Direct my understanding then to Thee;
Control my reason, guide my wandering heart.

If one would not quarrel with his fellow-man for waking him from the cataleptic nightmare, he should not resist the Truth that destroys the so-called evidences of matter with the higher testimony of Spirit.

Many theories, relative to God and man, neither make man harmonious nor God lovable. The fancies we entertain about happiness and life afford no evidence of either, scathless and permanent. That which secures the claims of harmonious and eternal being is found in Divine Science.

Children should be taught the Christ-cure among their first lessons, and kept from discussing or entertaining theories or thoughts of sickness. To forestall for them the experience of error and its sufferings, take care to keep out of the mind of your children sinful or diseased thoughts. The latter should be excluded on the same principle as the former. This is Christian Science.