There is a passage in Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians (x. 13) which it is well for every Christian Scientist to devoutly ponder:
"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
Temptation is the argument of material sense, which asserts, "I am something." So long as we follow the mandates of the flesh, there is no temptation. We easily drift with the tide; but to stem the current of error is quite another thing. In Science and Health we read:
