PREFACE.
LEANING on the sustaining Infinite, to-day is big
with blessings. The wakeful shepherd beholds
the first faint morning beams, ere cometh the full
radiance of a risen day. So shone the pale star to the
prophet-shepherds; yet it traversed the night, and came
where, in cradled obscurity, lay the young child who
should redeem mortals, and make plain to human
understanding the way of salvation. Now, across a
night of error, dawn the morning beams, and shines the
guiding-orb of Truth. The Wisemen are led to behold
and follow the daystar of Divine Science, as it shows the
way to eternal harmony.
The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past, and the cold conventionality of materialism, no longer obstruct the way to progress. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him, whom to know aright is Life eternal. Though empires fall, " He whose right it is shall reign."
A book introduces new thoughts, but cannot make them speedily understood. It is the task of the sturdy pioneer to hew the tall oak and cut the rough gran-
