of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives, unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the Devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he kuoweth that he hath but a short time.”
For victory over a single sin we give thanks, and magnify the Lord of Hosts. Then what shall we say of the mighty conquest over all sin? A louder song, sweeter than has ever before reached high heaven, now rises clearer and nearer to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is not there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting strain.
Self-abnegation — by which we lay down all for Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error — is a rule in Christian Science. Every mortal at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with and overcome the belief in vital fluids, and the power of evil called Animal Magnetism. The rule to ensure the victory for Science is this: Bear faithful testimony to the action of animal magnetism as an evil belief, which must be met and mastered. A denial of the action of this false belief prevents your victory over it.
This is the difference between the treatment of sin and sickness, both of which are Animal Magnetism. Sin, or malicious magnetism, should be exposed, — we are forbidden to cover iniquity, — and annihilated by Truth and Love: while the less culpable magnetism of sickness should be destroyed without affirming its presence.
