which is healing its thousands and rapidly diminishing the percentage of
sin. But reduce this evil to its lowest terms, _nothing_, and slander
loses its power to harm; for even the wrath of man shall praise Him. The
reduction of evil, in Science, gives the dominance to God, and must lead us
to bless those who curse, that thus we may overcome evil with good.

If the Bible and my work Science and Health had their rightful place in
schools of learning, they would revolutionize the world by advancing the
kingdom of Christ. It requires sacrifice, struggle, prayer, and
watchfulness to understand and demonstrate what these volumes teach,
because they involve divine Science, with fixed Principle, a given rule,
and unmistakable proof.




IS THERE NO SACRIFICIAL ATONEMENT?


Self-sacrifice is the highway to heaven. The sacrifice of our blessed Lord
is undeniable, and it was a million times greater than the brief agony of
the cross; for that would have been insufficient to insure the glory his
sacrifice brought and the good it wrought. The spilling of human blood was
inadequate to represent the blood of Christ, the outpouring love that
sustains man's at-one-ment with God; though shedding human blood brought to
light the efficacy of divine Life and Love and its power over death. Jesus'
sacrifice stands preeminently amidst physical suffering and human woe. The
glory of human life is in overcoming sickness, sin, and death. Jesus
suffered for all mortals to bring in this glory; and his purpose was to
show them that the way out of the flesh, out of the delusion of all human