Chapter XIII - Teaching Christian Science
Integrity assured
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come for you intentionally to influence mankind adverse
come for you intentionally to influence mankind adverse
to its highest hope and achievement.
Chicanery impossible
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Teaching or practising in the name of Truth, but con-
Teaching or practising in the name of Truth, but con-
trary to its spirit or rules, is most dangerous quackery.
Strict adherence to the divine Principle and
rules of the scientific method has secured
the only success of the students of Christian Science.
This alone entitles them to the high standing which
most of them hold in the community, a reputation ex-
perimentally justified by their efforts. Whoever af-
firms that there is more than one Principle and method
of demonstrating Christian Science greatly errs, igno-
rantly or intentionally, and separates himself from the
true conception of Christian Science healing and from
its possible demonstration.
No dishonest concessions
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Any dishonesty in your theory and practice betrays a
Any dishonesty in your theory and practice betrays a
gross ignorance of the method of the Christ-cure. Science
makes no concessions to persons or opinions.
One must abide in the morale of truth or he
cannot demonstrate the divine Principle. So long as
matter is the basis of practice, illness cannot be effica-
ciously treated by the metaphysical process. Truth does
the work, and you must both understand and abide by the
divine Principle of your demonstration.
This volume indispensable
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A Christian Scientist requires my work SCIENCE AND
A Christian Scientist requires my work SCIENCE AND
HEALTH for his textbook, and so do all his students and
patients. Why? First: Because it is the voice
of Truth to this age, and contains the full
statement of Christian Science, or the Science of healing
through Mind. Second: Because it was the first book
known, containing a thorough statement of Christian
Science. Hence it gave the first rules for demonstrating