Chapter 12: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter XII - Christian Science Practice

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The principal witness (the officer of the Health-laws)

deposed that he was an eye-witness to the good deeds for

which Mortal Man is under sentence of death. After be-

traying him into the hands of your law, the Health-agent

disappeared, to reappear however at the trial as a witness

against Mortal Man and in the interest of Personal Sense,

a murderer. Your Supreme Court must find the pris-

oner on the night of the alleged offence to have been acting

within the limits of the divine law, and in obedience

thereto. Upon this statute hangs all the law and testimony.

Giving a cup of cold water in Christ's name, is a Christian

service. Laying down his life for a good deed, Mortal Man

should find it again. Such acts bear their own justifica-

tion, and are under the protection of the Most High.

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Prior to the night of his arrest, the prisoner summoned

two professed friends, Materia Medica and Physiology, to

prevent his committing liver-complaint, and thus save him

from arrest. But they brought with them Fear, the sheriff,

to precipitate the result which they were called to prevent.

It was Fear who handcuffed Mortal Man and would now

punish him. You have left Mortal Man no alternative.

He must obey your law, fear its consequences, and be pun-

ished for his fear. His friends struggled hard to rescue the

prisoner from the penalty they considered justly due, but

they were compelled to let him be taken into custody, tried,

and condemned. Thereupon Judge Medicine sat in judg-

ment on the case, and substantially charged the jury, twelve

Mortal Minds, to find the prisoner guilty. His Honor sen-

tenced Mortal Man to die for the very deeds which the di-

vine law compels man to commit. Thus the Court of Error

construed obedience to the law of divine Love as disobedi-

ence to the law of Life. Claiming to protect Mortal Man

in right-doing, that court pronounced a sentence of death

for doing right.

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One of the principal witnesses, Nerve, testified that he

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was a ruler of Body, in which province Mortal Man resides.

He also testified that he was on intimate terms with the

plaintiff, and knew Personal Sense to be truthful; that he

knew Man, and that Man was made in the image of God,

but was a criminal. This is a foul aspersion on man's

Maker. It blots the fair escutcheon of omnipotence. It in-

dicates malice aforethought, a determination to condemn

Man in the interest of Personal Sense. At the bar of Truth,

in the presence of divine Justice, before the Judge of our

higher tribunal, the Supreme Court of Spirit, and before

its jurors, the Spiritual Senses, I proclaim this witness,

Nerve, to be destitute of intelligence and truth and to be

a false witness.

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Man self-destroyed; the testimony of matter respected;

Spirit not allowed a hearing; Soul a criminal though

recommended to mercy; the helpless innocent body tor-

tured, – these are the terrible records of your Court of

Error, and I ask that the Supreme Court of Spirit reverse

this decision.

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Here the opposing counsel, False Belief, called Chris-

tian Science to order for contempt of court. Various

notables – Materia Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Scho-

lastic Theology, and Jurisprudence – rose to the ques-

tion of expelling Christian Science from the bar, for such

high-handed illegality. They declared that Christian Sci-

ence was overthrowing the judicial proceedings of a regu-

larly constituted court.

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But Judge Justice of the Supreme Court of Spirit over-

ruled their motions on the ground that unjust usages

were not allowed at the bar of Truth, which ranks above

the lower Court of Error.

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The attorney, Christian Science, then read from the

supreme statute-book, the Bible, certain extracts on the

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Rights of Man, remarking, that the Bible was better au-

thority than Blackstone: –

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Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and

let them have dominion.

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Behold, I give unto you power . . . over all the power

of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

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If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

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Then Christian Science proved the witness, Nerve, to

be a perjurer. Instead of being a ruler in the Province

of Body, in which Mortal Man was reported to reside,

Nerve was an insubordinate citizen, putting in false

claims to office and bearing false witness against Man.

Turning suddenly to Personal Sense, by this time silent,

Christian Science continued: –

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I ask your arrest in the name of Almighty God on three

distinct charges of crime, to wit: perjury, treason, and con-

spiracy against the rights and life of man.

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Then Christian Science continued:

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Another witness, equally inadequate, said that on the

night of the crime a garment of foul fur was spread over

him by Morbid Secretion, while the facts in the case show

that this fur is a foreign substance, imported by False Be-

lief, the attorney for Personal Sense, who is in partnership

with Error and smuggles Error's goods into market with-

out the inspection of Soul's government officers. When

the Court of Truth summoned Furred Tongue for examina-

tion, he disappeared and was never heard of more.

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Morbid Secretion is not an importer or dealer in fur, but

we have heard Materia Medica explain how this fur is

manufactured, and we know Morbid Secretion to be on

friendly terms with the firm of Personal Sense, Error, &

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Co., receiving pay from them and introducing their goods

into the market. Also, be it known that False Belief, the

counsel for the plaintiff, Personal Sense, is a buyer for this

firm. He manufactures for it, keeps a furnishing store,

and advertises largely for his employers.

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Death testified that he was absent from the Province of

Body, when a message came from False Belief, command-

ing him to take part in the homicide. At this request

Death repaired to the spot where the liver-complaint was

in process, frightening away Materia Medica, who was then

manacling the prisoner in the attempt to save him. True,

Materia Medica was a misguided participant in the misdeed

for which the Health-officer had Mortal Man in custody,

though Mortal Man was innocent.

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Christian Science turned from the abashed witnesses,

his words flashing as lightning in the perturbed faces

of these worthies, Scholastic Theology, Materia Medica,

Physiology, the blind Hypnotism, and the masked Per-

sonal Sense, and said: –

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God will smite you, O whited walls, for injuring in your

ignorance the unfortunate Mortal Man who sought your

aid in his struggles against liver-complaint and Death.

You came to his rescue, only to fasten upon him an offence

of which he was innocent. You aided and abetted Fear

and Health-laws. You betrayed Mortal Man, meanwhile

declaring Disease to be God's servant and the righteous

executor of His laws. Our higher statutes declare you all,

witnesses, jurors, and judges, to be offenders, awaiting the

sentence which General Progress and Divine Love will

pronounce.

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We send our best detectives to whatever locality is re-

ported to be haunted by Disease, but on visiting the spot,

they learn that Disease was never there, for he could not

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possibly elude their search. Your Material Court of Errors,

when it condemned Mortal Man on the ground of hygienic

disobedience, was manipulated by the oleaginous machina-

tions of the counsel, False Belief, whom Truth arraigns

before the supreme bar of Spirit to answer for his crime.

Morbid Secretion is taught how to make sleep befool reason

before sacrificing mortals to their false gods.

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Mortal Minds were deceived by your attorney, False Be-

lief, and were influenced to give a verdict delivering Mortal

Man to Death. Good deeds are transformed into crimes,

to which you attach penalties; but no warping of justice

can render disobedience to the so-called laws of Matter

disobedience to God, or an act of homicide. Even penal

law holds homicide, under stress of circumstances, to be

justifiable. Now what greater justification can any deed

have, than that it is for the good of one's neighbor? Where-

fore, then, in the name of outraged justice, do you sentence

Mortal Man for ministering to the wants of his fellow-man

in obedience to divine law? You cannot trample upon the

decree of the Supreme Bench. Mortal Man has his appeal

to Spirit, God, who sentences only for sin.

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The false and unjust beliefs of your human mental legis-

lators compel them to enact wicked laws of sickness and so

forth, and then render obedience to these laws punishable

as crime. In the presence of the Supreme Lawgiver, stand-

ing at the bar of Truth, and in accordance with the divine

statutes, I repudiate the false testimony of Personal Sense.

I ask that he be forbidden to enter against Mortal Man

any more suits to be tried at the Court of Material Error.

I appeal to the just and equitable decisions of divine Spirit

to restore to Mortal Man the rights of which he has been

deprived.

Charge of the Chief Justice

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Here the counsel for the defence closed, and the Chief

Justice of the Supreme Court, with benign and imposing

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presence, comprehending and defining all law and evi-

dence, explained from his statute-book, the

Bible, that any so-called law, which under-

takes to punish aught but sin, is null and void.

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He also decided that the plaintiff, Personal Sense, be

not permitted to enter any suits at the bar of Soul, but

be enjoined to keep perpetual silence, and in case of

temptation, to give heavy bonds for good behavior. He

concluded his charge thus: –

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The plea of False Belief we deem unworthy of a hearing.

Let what False Belief utters, now and forever, fall into

oblivion, "unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown." Accord-

ing to our statute, Material Law is a liar who cannot bear

witness against Mortal Man, neither can Fear arrest Mortal

Man nor can Disease cast him into prison. Our law refuses

to recognize Man as sick or dying, but holds him to be for-

ever in the image and likeness of his Maker. Reversing the

testimony of Personal Sense and the decrees of the Court of

Error in favor of Matter, Spirit decides in favor of Man

and against Matter. We further recommend that Materia

Medica adopt Christian Science and that Health-laws,

Mesmerism, Hypnotism, Oriental Witchcraft, and Esoteric

Magic be publicly executed at the hands of our sheriff,

Progress.

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The Supreme Bench decides in favor of intelligence, that

no law outside of divine Mind can punish or reward Mortal

Man. Your personal jurors in the Court of Error are

myths. Your attorney, False Belief, is an impostor, per-

suading Mortal Minds to return a verdict contrary to law

and gospel. The plaintiff, Personal Sense, is recorded in

our Book of books as a liar. Our great Teacher of mental

jurisprudence speaks of him also as "a murderer from the

beginning." We have no trials for sickness before the tri-

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bunal of divine Spirit. There, Man is adjudged innocent

of transgressing physical laws, because there are no such

laws. Our statute is spiritual, our Government is divine.

"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

Divine verdict

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The Jury of Spiritual Senses agreed at once upon a

verdict, and there resounded throughout the vast audience-

chamber of Spirit the cry, Not guilty. Then

the prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free.

We noticed, as he shook hands with his counsel, Chris-

tian Science, that all sallowness and debility had dis-

appeared. His form was erect and commanding, his

countenance beaming with health and happiness. Divine

Love had cast out fear. Mortal Man, no longer sick

and in prison, walked forth, his feet "beautiful upon the

mountains," as of one "that bringeth good tidings."

Christ the great physician

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Neither animal magnetism nor hypnotism enters into

the practice of Christian Science, in which truth cannot

be reversed, but the reverse of error is true.

An improved belief cannot retrograde. When

Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into

a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understand-

ing, and sin, disease, and death disappear. Christ, Truth,

gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the ma-

terial, transformed with the ideal, disappears, and man

is clothed and fed spiritually. St. Paul says, "Work

out your own salvation with fear and trembling:" Jesus

said, "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good

pleasure to give you the kingdom." This truth is

Christian Science.

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Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental

malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when

awake.

Chapter XIII

Teaching Christian Science

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just

man, and he will increase in learning. – PROVERBS.

Study of medicine

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WHEN the discoverer of Christian Science is con-

sulted by her followers as to the propriety, advan-

tage, and consistency of systematic medical

study, she tries to show them that under ordi-

nary circumstances a resort to faith in corporeal means

tends to deter those, who make such a compromise, from

entire confidence in omnipotent Mind as really possessing

all power. While a course of medical study is at times

severely condemned by some Scientists, she feels, as she

always has felt, that all are privileged to work out their

own salvation according to their light, and that our motto

should be the Master's counsel, "Judge not, that ye be

not judged."

Failure's lessons

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If patients fail to experience the healing power of

Christian Science, and think they can be benefited by

certain ordinary physical methods of medical

treatment, then the Mind-physician should

give up such cases, and leave invalids free to resort to

whatever other systems they fancy will afford relief.

Thus such invalids may learn the value of the apostolic

precept: "Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering

and doctrine." If the sick find these material expedients

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unsatisfactory, and they receive no help from them, these

very failures may open their blind eyes. In some way,

sooner or later, all must rise superior to materiality, and

suffering is oft the divine agent in this elevation. "All

things work together for good to them that love God," is

the dictum of Scripture.

Refuge and strength

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If Christian Scientists ever fail to receive aid from

other Scientists, – their brethren upon whom they may

call, – God will still guide them into the right

use of temporary and eternal means. Step by

step will those who trust Him find that "God is our refuge

and strength, a very present help in trouble."

Charity to those opposed

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Students are advised by the author to be charitable

and kind, not only towards differing forms of religion

and medicine, but to those who hold these dif-

fering opinions. Let us be faithful in pointing

the way through Christ, as we understand it,

but let us also be careful always to "judge righteous judg-

ment," and never to condemn rashly. "Whosoever shall

smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."

That is, Fear not that he will smite thee again for thy for-

bearance. If ecclesiastical sects or medical schools turn

a deaf ear to the teachings of Christian Science, then part

from these opponents as did Abraham when he parted

from Lot, and say in thy heart: "Let there be no strife, I

pray thee, between me and thee, and between My herd-

men and thy herdmen; for we be brethren." Immortals,

or God's children in divine Science, are one harmonious

family; but mortals, or the "children of men" in material

sense, are discordant and ofttimes false brethren.

Conforming to explicit rules

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The teacher must make clear to students the Science

of healing, especially its ethics, – that all is Mind, and

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that the Scientist must conform to God's requirements.

Also the teacher must thoroughly fit his students to defend

themselves against sin, and to guard against the

attacks of the would-be mental assassin, who

attempts to kill morally and physically. No

hypothesis as to the existence of another power should

interpose a doubt or fear to hinder the demonstration of

Christian Science. Unfold the latent energies and capac-

ities for good in your pupil. Teach the great possibilities

of man endued with divine Science. Teach the dangerous

possibility of dwarfing the spiritual understanding and

demonstration of Truth by sin, or by recourse to material

means for healing. Teach the meekness and might of life

"hid with Christ in God," and there will be no desire for

other healing methods. You render the divine law of

healing obscure and void, when you weigh the human in

the scale with the divine, or limit in any direction of

thought the omnipresence and omnipotence of God.

Divine energy

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Christian Science silences human will, quiets fear with

Truth and Love, and illustrates the unlabored motion

of the divine energy in healing the sick. Self‑

seeking, envy, passion, pride, hatred, and

revenge are cast out by the divine Mind which heals

disease. The human will which maketh and worketh a lie,

hiding the divine Principle of harmony, is destructive to

health, and is the cause of disease rather than its cure.

Blight of avarice

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There is great danger in teaching Mind-healing indis-

criminately, thus disregarding the morals of the student

and caring only for the fees. Recalling Jeffer-

son's words about slavery, "I tremble, when I

remember that God is just," the author trembles whenever

she sees a man, for the petty consideration of money,

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teaching his slight knowledge of Mind-power, – per-

haps communicating his own bad morals, and in this way

dealing pitilessly with a community unprepared for self‑

defence.

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A thorough perusal of the author's publications heals

sickness. If patients sometimes seem worse while read-

ing this book, the change may either arise from the alarm

of the physician, or it may mark the crisis of the disease.

Perseverance in the perusal of the book has generally

completely healed such cases.

Exclusion of malpractice

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Whoever practises the Science the author teaches,

through which Mind pours light and healing upon this

generation, can practise on no one from sin-

ister or malicious motives without destroying

his own power to heal and his own health. Good must

dominate in the thoughts of the healer, or his demon-

stration is protracted, dangerous, and impossible in Sci-

ence. A wrong motive involves defeat. In the Science

of Mind-healing, it is imperative to be honest, for victory

rests on the side of immutable right. To understand

God strengthens hope, enthrones faith in Truth, and

verifies Jesus' word: "Lo, I am with you alway, even

unto the end of the world."

Iniquity overcome

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Resisting evil, you overcome it and prove its nothing-

ness. Not human platitudes, but divine beatitudes, re-

flect the spiritual light and might which heal

the sick. The exercise of will brings on a

hypnotic state, detrimental to health and integrity of

thought. This must therefore be watched and guarded

against. Covering iniquity will prevent prosperity and the

ultimate triumph of any cause. Ignorance of the error

to be eradicated oftentimes subjects you to its abuse.

No trespass on human rights

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The heavenly law is broken by trespassing upon

man's individual right of self-government. We have no

authority in Christian Science and no moral

right to attempt to influence the thoughts of

others, except it be to benefit them. In men-

tal practice you must not forget that erring human opin-

ions, conflicting selfish motives, and ignorant attempts

to do good may render you incapable of knowing or

judging accurately the need of your fellow-men. There-

fore the rule is, heal the sick when called upon for aid,

and save the victims of the mental assassins.

Expose sin without believing in it

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Ignorance, subtlety, or false charity does not for-

ever conceal error; evil will in time disclose and pun-

ish itself. The recuperative action of the

system, when mentally sustained by Truth,

goes on naturally. When sin or sickness –

the reverse of harmony – seems true to material sense,

impart without frightening or discouraging the pa-

tient the truth and spiritual understanding, which de-

stroy disease. Expose and denounce the claims of

evil and disease in all their forms, but realize no

reality in them. A sinner is not reformed merely

by assuring him that he cannot be a sinner because

there is no sin. To put down the claim of sin,

you must detect it, remove the mask, point out the

illusion, and thus get the victory over sin and so prove

its unreality. The sick are not healed merely by

declaring there is no sickness, but by knowing that

there is none.

Wicked evasions

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A sinner is afraid to cast the first stone. He may

say, as a subterfuge, that evil is unreal, but to know it,

he must demonstrate his statement. To assume that

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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-

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-

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

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

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

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.

Three classes of neophytes

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There is a large class of thinkers whose bigotry and

conceit twist every fact to suit themselves. Their creed

teaches belief in a mysterious, supernatural

God, and in a natural, all-powerful devil. An-

other class, still more unfortunate, are so depraved that

they appear to be innocent. They utter a falsehood,

while looking you blandly in the face, and they never

fail to stab their benefactor in the back. A third class

of thinkers build with solid masonry. They are sincere,

generous, noble, and are therefore open to the approach

and recognition of Truth. To teach Christian Science

to such as these is no task. They do not incline long-

ingly to error, whine over the demands of Truth, nor

play the traitor for place and power.

Touchstone of Science

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Some people yield slowly to the touch of Truth. Few

yield without a struggle, and many are reluctant to ac-

knowledge that they have yielded; but un-

less this admission is made, evil will boast

itself above good. The Christian Scientist has enlisted

to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome

them by understanding their nothingness and the allness

of God, or good. Sickness to him is no less a temptation

than is sin, and he heals them both by understanding

God's power over them. The Christian Scientist knows

that they are errors of belief, which Truth can and will

destroy.

False claims annihilated

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Who, that has felt the perilous beliefs in life, substance,

and intelligence separated from God, can say that there

is no error of belief? Knowing the claim of

animal magnetism, that all evil combines in

the belief of life, substance, and intelligence in matter,

electricity, animal nature, and organic life, who will deny

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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

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him how to bar the door of his thought against this

seeming power, – a task not difficult, when one under-

stands that evil has in reality no power.

Incorrect reasoning leads to practical error.

The wrong thought should be arrested before it has a

chance to manifest itself.

Egotistic darkness

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Walking in the light, we are accustomed to the light

and require it; we cannot see in darkness. But eyes ac-

customed to darkness are pained by the light.

When outgrowing the old, you should not fear

to put on the new. Your advancing course may pro-

voke envy, but it will also attract respect. When error

confronts you, withhold not the rebuke or the explana-

tion which destroys error. Never breathe an immoral

atmosphere, unless in the attempt to purify it. Better is

the frugal intellectual repast with contentment and virtue,

than the luxury of learning with egotism and vice.

Unwarranted expectations

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Right is radical. The teacher must know the truth

himself. He must live it and love it, or he cannot impart

it to others. We soil our garments with con-

servatism, and afterwards we must wash them

clean. When the spiritual sense of Truth unfolds its

harmonies, you take no risks in the policy of error. Ex-

pect to heal simply by repeating the author's words, by

right talking and wrong acting, and you will be disap-

pointed. Such a practice does not demonstrate the

Science by which divine Mind heals the sick.

Reliable authority

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Acting from sinful motives destroys your power of

healing from the right motive. On the other hand, if

you had the inclination or power to practise

wrongly and then should adopt Christian

Science, the wrong power would be destroyed. You do

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