Chapter XIII - Teaching Christian Science
Adherence to righteousness
449:1
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
449:7
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
449:19
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.