AMONG those working together for a common cause, it sometimes happens that a point of difference will arise which involves no fundamental truth, but is more often just an honest difference of opinion, wherein we want our way, and those on "the other side," so called, want their way. The merest trifle—so small, indeed, that some of us may take the ground that it is "unscientific" to notice it at all—is often the subject of such contention; but Christian Science plainly teaches that to ignore a condition is not to destroy it. From a metaphysical standpoint, nothing can properly be called a trifle which in any way tends toward division, for Mind's continuous activity, instead of separating its countless ideas, is ever maintaining them in yet more consciously close bonds of unity and love. Error, however, not being God-made, must have a beginning, even though that beginning seem at first infinitesimal. But since
It is the little rift within the lute
That by and by will make the music mute,
he is wise who, instead of waiting until this little rift shall have widened into a veritable breach, at once sits down to analyze the situation and to deal with it intelligently and energetically.
