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The “business” of God’s universe is based on unchanging law and has no state of inaction or over-action; it is the harmonious and perfect relationship and association of infinite activities, and individual man performs unerringly and surely his part in the whole. Whoever scorns another depreciates himself. Whoever sees another less than the image of God defaces his vision of the excellence of his own true being and of the righteousness of God. Whoever declares another’s fallen condition, admits his own and lays himself open to like temptation, for we be brethren; one cannot sneer at another’s weakness and be quite strong himself. One cannot desire to find in another the marks of impurity and not find himself less pure. Mary Baker Eddy (Carpenter, Gilbert, Essays On Christian Science, p.54)
