Sin must be obsolete,--dust returning to dust, nothingness to nothingness.
Sin is not Mind; it is but the supposition that there is more than one
Mind. It issues a false claim; and the claim, being worthless, is in
reality no claim whatever. Matter is not Mind, to claim aught; but Mind is
God, and evil finds no place in good. When we get near enough to God to see
this, the springtide of Truth in Christian Science will burst upon us in
the similitude of the Apocalyptic pictures. No night will be there, and
there will be no more sea. There will be no need of the sun, for Spirit
will be the light of the city, and matter will be proved a myth. Until
centuries pass, and this vision of Truth is fully interpreted by divine
Science, this prophecy will be scoffed at; but it is just as veritable now
as it can be then. Science, divine Science, presents the grand and eternal
verities of God and man as the divine Mind and that Mind's idea.

Mortal man is the antipode of immortal man, and the two should not be
confounded. Bishop Foster said, in a lecture in Boston, "No man living hath
yet seen man." This material sinful personality, which we misname man, is
what St. Paul terms "the old man and his deeds," to be "put off."

Who can say what the absolute personality of God or man is? Who living hath
seen God or a perfect man? In presence of such thoughts take off thy shoes
and tread lightly, for this is holy ground. Surely the probation of mortals
must go on after the change called death, that they may learn the
definition of immortal being; or else their present mistakes would
extinguish human existence. How long this false sense remains after the
transition called death, no mortal knoweth; but this is sure, that the
mists of error, sooner or later, will melt in the fervent heat of
suffering, mortality will burst the barriers of sense, and man be found
perfect and eternal. Of his intermediate conditions--the purifying
processes and terrible revolutions necessary to effect this end--I am