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way of independent thinking, according to their own convictions.
There are ways of handling your thoughts quite independently of what seems to be going on and of the opinions of others, which will make you a lofty soul in the feelings of people. It is not too late to begin that way of handling your thoughts, even if you are now seventy or eighty years in the world's belief. You should have a systematic mode of reasoning with power in itself to quicken you into a bright and clear understanding of Principle.
You will not start out with your noble ideas for the sake of the respect and attention of mankind. You will start out with the noble ideas for their own sake. It is the nature of every man, woman, and child to choose great themes for the mind, if those themes are started within them. This the twelve stones of the temple of Divine Science, or the twelve lessons of Jesus Christ, are sure to accomplish. Nothing like their marvelous potency was ever discovered in the line of reasoning. By some of them we find ourselves enabled quickly to distinguish right from wrong, in places where once we would not have detected differences.
Paul said, "I had not known sin but by the law," when he found how quickly his mind detected error. Your judgment of affairs will be quick and accurate. But this you will notice, that while you can instantly separate chaff from wheat in affairs, the evil, or imperfect, does not hurt or disturb or anger you, as it did formerly.
The denials of Science have the double effect of dividing off the erroneous promptly and making it harmless instantly.
The fifth lesson showed the law of the word showed how essential it is that even after faith is established the speech and thought should express the faith constantly.
Many people keep their faith so secret that it does not work outwardly. Emerson spoke of the unreality of evil. He spoke
