Chapter XIII - Teaching Christian Science
Wicked evasions
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there are no claims of evil and yet to indulge them, is
there are no claims of evil and yet to indulge them, is
a moral offence. Blindness and self-righteousness cling
fast to iniquity. When the Publican's wail
went out to the great heart of Love, it won his
humble desire. Evil which obtains in the bodily senses,
but which the heart condemns, has no foundation; but if
evil is uncondemned, it is undenied and nurtured. Under
such circumstances, to say that there is no evil, is an evil
in itself. When needed tell the truth concerning the lie.
Evasion of Truth cripples integrity, and casts thee down
from the pinnacle.
Truth's grand results
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Christian Science rises above the evidence of the cor-
Christian Science rises above the evidence of the cor-
poreal senses; but if you have not risen above sin your-
self, do not congratulate yourself upon your
blindness to evil or upon the good you know
and do not. A dishonest position is far from Christianly
scientific. "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper:
but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have
mercy." Try to leave on every student's mind the strong
impress of divine Science, a high sense of the moral and
spiritual qualifications requisite for healing, well knowing
it to be impossible for error, evil, and hate to accomplish
the grand results of Truth and Love. The reception or
pursuit of instructions opposite to absolute Christian
Science must always hinder scientific demonstration.
Adherence to righteousness
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If the student adheres strictly to the teachings of Chris-
If the student adheres strictly to the teachings of Chris-
tian Science and ventures not to break its rules, he can-
not fail of success in healing. It is Christian
Science to do right, and nothing short of right-
doing has any claim to the name. To talk the right and
live the wrong is foolish deceit, doing one's self the most
harm. Fettered by sin yourself, it is difficult to free
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another from the fetters of disease. With your own wrists
another from the fetters of disease. With your own wrists
manacled, it is hard to break another's chains. A little
leaven causes the whole mass to ferment. A grain of
Christian Science does wonders for mortals, so omnip-
otent is Truth, but more of Christian Science must be
gained in order to continue in well doing.
Right adjusts the balance
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The wrong done another reacts most heavily against
The wrong done another reacts most heavily against
one's self. Right adjusts the balance sooner or later.
Think it "easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle," than for you to benefit
yourself by injuring others. Man's moral mercury, ris-
ing or falling, registers his healing ability and fitness to
teach. You should practise well what you know, and
you will then advance in proportion to your honesty
and fidelity, – qualities which insure success in this
Science; but it requires a higher understanding to teach
this subject properly and correctly than it does to heal
the most difficult case.
Inoculation of thought
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The baneful effect of evil associates is less seen than
The baneful effect of evil associates is less seen than
felt. The inoculation of evil human thoughts ought to
be understood and guarded against. The
first impression, made on a mind which is
attracted or repelled according to personal merit or de-
merit, is a good detective of individual character. Cer-
tain minds meet only to separate through simultaneous
repulsion. They are enemies without the preliminary
offence. The impure are at peace with the impure.
Only virtue is a rebuke to vice. A proper teacher of Chris-
tian Science improves the health and the morals of his
student if the student practises what he is taught, and
unless this result follows, the teacher is a Scientist only
in name.