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Caution in the Truth.

able to testify, by their lives, that as they come closer to the true understanding of God, they lose all sense of error.

The Scriptures declare that God is too pure to behold iniquity (Habakkuk i. 13); but they also declare that God pitieth them who fear Him; that there is no place where His voice is not heard; that He is “a very present help in time of trouble.”

The sinner has no refuge from sin, except in God, who is his salvation. We must, however, realize God's presence, power, and love, in order to be saved from sin. This realization takes away man's fondness for sin and his pleasure in it; and, lastly, it removes the pain which accrues to him from it. Then follows this as the finale in Science: The sinner loses his sense of sin, and gains a higher sense of God, in whom there is no sin.

The true man, really saved, is ready to testify of God in the infinite penetration of Truth, and can affirm that the Mind which is Good, or God, has no knowledge of sin.

In the same manner the sick lose their sense of sickness, and gain that spiritual sense of harmony which contains neither discord nor disease.