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consequences of this dream. "Mortal man" is but a dreamer, and "mortal conditions" are the dream --- neither are real. Talking in this "sleep" man has said, "Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. God be merciful to me a sinner. As for man his days are as grass. Behold, he was shapen in iniquity."  (Bible Selections, "Spirit,"   p. 28; "Man," p. 34.)

Awake, man knows himself one with God, Son of God, Heir of God, Likeness of God, hence, one with Truth unchangeable, Substance incorruptible, Power limitless, Life eternal, and Nature perfect. He knows himself because he has found his Source and Substance. Looking now upon appearances of sin and distress, he sees in these but a false claim that because he bows to it man serves. To all such appearances he can say, "There is no Truth in that." The Principle of good is everywhere, waiting to be recognized, thought and spoken. To see the unreality of so-called evil conditions is the beginning of the uprooting to think and speak of reality finishes the work, and good, being omnipresent, at once is revealed. Only opposite beliefs hid it from our sight.

Now we go to the sinning and the sick, not to see through their eyes, not to enter into their dream, but, like one wide awake, to arouse the sleepers from their dreams. We go, not sympathizing with their weaknesses, thereby falling into the ditch with them, but with open eye, seeing their true State, to declare this joyfully to them.