of mathematics or music. He believes heartily in the cause which he has espoused and applies himself with assiduity to understanding and remembering its rules, but he does not expect to do well, or to be a master in his science, but by determined, faithful practice.

Nothing is promised to half-hearted service, or to a faith that is divided between Good and evil, or between Mind and matter.

“He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.”—Jas. I :6, 7 (Revised Version).

Faith that wins,

The faith that wins is that which is placed wholly in God, Spirit, Mind, as the only real substance and

power. In the proportion that the student turns from believing in the reality of evil, disease, pain, and sorrow, and from believing in the power of sin, death, and materiality, he will be able to prove the healing, freeing efficacy of divine Mind.

Whoever begins to work out life’s problems by divine rule is a pioneer in his own mental realm, and indeed, at the present stage of human unfoldment, he is a pioneer in the race-mind, and will need to advance with the same bravery and fidelity that distinguished those men and women who have been the first settlers and reclaimers of unknown lands in the physical sphere. The race-thoughts concerning the reality of evil are like the rocks and wild growth upon uncultivated ground—the unbelieving, bigoted, malicious resistance of ignorance like the heathen Amorites and Hittites

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