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because Spirit is one. I heard an uneducated woman speak in a most orthodox prayer meeting some time ago. She knew no more of religious science than a babe knows of Latin. Her face, however, was radiant with the light of the Christ manifest through her. She told how, five or six years before, she had been earnestly seeking to know more of God (seeking in prayer, as she knew nothing about seeking spiritual light from people), and one day, in all earnestness, she asked that some special word of His will might be given directly to her as a sort of private message. These words flashed into her mind: "If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be fa of light.... No man can serve two masters" (Mt. 6:22, 24 KJV).

She had read these words many times, but that day they were illumined by Spirit; and she saw that to have an eye "single" meant seeing but one power in her life; while she saw two powers (God and devil, good and evil) she was serving two masters. From that day to this, though she had passed through all sorts of troublous circumstances --- trials of poverty, illness in family, intemperate husband --- she found always the most marvelous, full, and complete deliverance out of them all by resolutely adhering to the "single" eye --- seeing God only. She would not look even for a moment at the seeming evil to combat it or rid herself of it, because, as she said, "Lookin' at God with one eye and this evil