eternal; the things which are seen are temporal,”—temporary, forever changing, —said Paul. But the absolutist new thoughter jumps a long way and arrives at the conclusion that the things which are not seen are eternal, absolute, while the things that are seen are useless, chaotic nothings to be ignored, despised, denied, and lived above. The Christian Science branch of new thought attributes all matter to “carnal mind,” and carnal mind it identifies as the devil. Material things are not under the law of God, they assert, neither can be, therefore matter and all material things are evil, the devil, and we must despise them and live outside of them. They, too, are right, in a sense.

God is the Absolute, unchanging, eternal in the heavens; the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent One ; the only actor in all action; the only thinker behind all thought; the one life and energy

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