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WAYSIDE HINTS.
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the grand realization of the Golden Shore of Love and the Peaceful Sea of Harmony.

The four sides of our City are the Bible, Jesus, Christianity, Science; “and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day; and there shall be no night there.”

By his spiritual reflection of God, man becomes the partaker of that Mind whence the universe sprang. As taught by Christian Science, progress is in demonstration, not doctrine. It is ameliorative and regenerative, giving loftier desires and new possibilities to our race.

Man should be found, not claiming equality with Him, but growing into that attitude of Mind which was in Christ Jesus. He should comprehend in Divine Science a recognition of what the apostle meant, when he said: “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our Spirit, that we are the children of God; and if children, then heirs — heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ.”