corporeality disappears; and individual spirituality, perfect and eternal, appears-never to disappear." (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 165.)

"We shall enjoy in that country the very light itself, by which we are now guided while we walk in the way; and being made blessed, we shall then perceive only that which is good, through the same by which we are now taught to discern between good and evil." (Rev. 21 : 23.)

"Spirit is light, and the contradiction of Spirit is matter. . . . Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth. . . . Spiritual sense is the discernment of spiritual good. Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal. Spiritual understanding unfolds Mind, Life, Truth, and Love, and demonstrates the divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in Christian Science." (Science and Health, pp. 504, 505.)

"Some sins are the cause of sin, some the punishment of sin, some both; as Isaiah says, 'Behold thou art wroth and we have sinned.' In this place 'to blaspheme God because of the hail' is acknowledged to be both sin and the punishment of sin." (Rev. 16: 21.)

"Sin ultimates in sinner, and in this sense they are one. You cannot separate sin from the sinner, nor the sinner from his sin . . . together both sinner and sin will be destroyed by the supremacy of good. This, however, does not annihilate man, for to efface sin, alias the sinner, brings to light, makes apparent, the real man, even God's 'image and likeness.' (Retrospection, p. 64.)

"Sin punishes itself, because it cannot go unpunished either here or hereafter." (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 93.)

Bede perceives that the twelve Sons of Jacob are to be distinguished by their different characteristics, and it is a matter of interest and study to him to specially mark their varying qualities of thought, and learn some lesson from each one.

Mrs. Eddy also devotes special meditation to the definition of qualities and characteristics belonging to the different Sons of Jacob. She sees in Old Testament history these qualities of thought in action. Bede is anxious to preserve only the best side of their nature; but Mrs. Eddy does not hesitate to define their mortal qualities while reversing the mortal type with a more spiritual concept, and a dim foreshadowing of the ideal man. So in Jacob himself she points out that physically he was

"a corporeal mortal embracing duplicity, repentance, sensualism,"

but inasmuch as he answered to the call of Spirit he became a witness to

"the revelation of Science, in which the so-called material senses yield to the spiritual sense of Life and Love." (Science and Health, p. 589.)

St. Paul's admonition to the Ephesians "That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; . . . ... And that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness;" especially applies to Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of the twelve tribes. In several instances she agrees with Bede's annotation carrying his

thought to an even more spiritual ultimate; as when to Bede's description of Asher, "happy from victory in conflicts," she adds the more profound interpretation:

"Hope and faith; spiritual compensation; the ills of the flesh rebuked." (Science and Health, p. 581) and to Bede's "Strong from the discipline of temptations in Gad," she adds:

"Spiritual being understood; haste towards harmony." (p. 586)

which condition of thought is the obvious result of temptations overcome.

We may say that Bede was the first great Englishman of Letters, for he made that monastery at Jarrow on Tyne the centre of learning and literature, and gathered in hundreds of eager students to listen to his teaching. His "History" is still the chief source of our knowledge of early England. But most of all he loved to study the Scriptures, and his last act was to finish a translation of St. John's Gospel into Anglo-Saxon.

His disciple Cuthbert writes of the event of that Ascension Day in the year A.D. 735.* "The Gospel was translated as far as 'what are these among so many.' All night Bede had lain awake in prayer and thanksgiving in spite of the sufferings of his mortal frame and as Ascension Day dawned, the old man called for his Scribe and bade him write quickly with all speed. Working and resting, all day Bede lay dictating the sacred words. 'There remains but one chapter, Master,' said the anxious Scribe, 'but it seems very hard for you to speak.' 'Nay it is easy' Bede replied, "Take up thy pen and write quickly.' "Amid blinding tears the young Scribe wrote on. 'And

*Vide. How we got our Bible, by J. Paterson Smyth.

now, father,' said he as he eagerly caught the last words from his quivering lips, 'only one sentence remains,' and Bede dictated it. 'It is finished, Master,' cried the youth raising his head as the last word was written. 'Ay, it is finished!' echoed the dying Saint; 'lift me up, place me at that window of my cell where I have so often prayed to God. Now Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost!' and with these words, in the glow of the setting sun, the gentle, Christ-like spirit passed to his eternal rest."

Mrs. Eddy, whose gratitude to the great and good in history was unbounded, has written:

"When the light of one friendship after another passes from earth to heaven, we kindle in place thereof the glow of some deathless reality. Memory, faithful to goodness, holds in her secret chambers those characters of holiest sort, bravest to endure, firmest to suffer, soonest to renounce." (Pul. 5.)

Such a light, such a friend to the English-speaking peoples was Bede, that spiritual "candle which the Lord lighted up in Northumbria" more than eleven hundred years ago.