THE aggregation of good traits in a character is prophetic of entire ultimate perfection; these traits counterbalance the weaknesses of nature, and while making no excuse for them, they bid us be patient with them until they are destroyed by the good. We have no right to demand perfection from our fellows until we can offer them perfection in ourselves.
Things that are equal to the same thing are equal to each other; so men and women, if in harmony with God, will be in harmony with the God-like man or woman wherever found. This is emphasized and demonstrated both in the teaching and practice of Christian Science.
He is a law unto himself who abides by the unchangeable mandates of the divine law of good. Love, purity. Such a nature mistakes not license for liberty, nor does it antagonize any phase of right law, but is latently and consciously in harmony with the spiritual law of Being, the safeguard of society, and the protector of the individual.
