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Unity of Good.

concerning the Divine Nature and Character, as is embraced in the theory of God's blindness to error and ignorance of sin. No wise mother, though a graduate of Wellesley College, will talk to her babe about the problems of Euclid.

Not much more than a half-century ago the assertion of universal salvation provoked discussion and horror, similar to what our declarations about sin and Deity must arouse, if hastily pushed to the front, while the platoons of Christian Science are not yet thoroughly drilled in the plainer manual of their spiritual armament. “Wait patiently on the Lord;” and, in less than another fifty years, His name will be magnified in the apprehension of this new subject, as already He is glorified in the wide extension of belief in the impartial grace of God, — shown by the changes at Andover Seminary, and in multitudes of other religious folds.

Nevertheless, though I thus speak, and from my heart of hearts, it is due both to Christian Science and myself to make also the following statement: When I have most clearly seen and most sensibly felt that the Infinite recognizes no sin, this has not separated me from God, but has so bound me to