Chapter 13: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter XIII - Teaching Christian Science

False claims annihilated

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that these are the errors which Truth must and will an-

nihilate? Christian Scientists must live under the con-

stant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from

the material world and be separate. They must re-

nounce aggression, oppression and the pride of power.

Christianity, with the crown of Love upon her brow,

must be their queen of life.

Treasure in heaven

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Students of Christian Science, who start with its letter

and think to succeed without the spirit, will either make

shipwreck of their faith or be turned sadly

awry. They must not only seek, but strive,

to enter the narrow path of Life, for "wide is the gate,

and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and

many there be which go in thereat." Man walks in the

direction towards which he looks, and where his treasure

is, there will his heart be also. If our hopes and affec-

tions are spiritual, they come from above, not from be-

neath, and they bear as of old the fruits of the Spirit.

Obligations of teachers

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Every Christian Scientist, every conscientious teacher

of the Science of Mind-healing, knows that human will

is not Christian Science, and he must recog-

nize this in order to defend himself from the

influence of human will. He feels morally obligated to

open the eyes of his students that they may perceive the

nature and methods of error of every sort, especially any

subtle degree of evil, deceived and deceiving. All mental

malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought.

It is the injurious action of one mortal mind controlling

another from wrong motives, and it is practised either

with a mistaken or a wicked purpose.

Indispensable defence

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Show your student that mental malpractice tends to

blast moral sense, health, and the human life. Instruct