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218 then healed permanently? No, for bad effects alone can follow animal magnetism. Expect to heal by simply repeating my words, — by right talking and wrong acting, — and you will be disappointed. Such practices as these do nut constitute the Science whereby the Divine Mind heals the sick. If certain cases seem to improve under such treatment, they will relapse, and become more difficult to cure than they were at first.

Acting from sinister motives destroys your power of healing from the right motive. If you had the inclination or power to practise wrongfully, and then should adopt Christian Science, the lesser power would be destroyed. You do not deny the mathematician's right to distinguish the correct and incorrect among the examples on the blackboard, or disbelieve the musician, when he detects the pure tone from the discord. In like manner I ought to understand what I am saying.

Men exhibit animal magnetism on the platform, not knowing its invidious spell to be unsafe; but those are not the dangerous practitioners of whom I speak.

There is great danger in teaching mental healing indiscriminately, in disregarding the morals of the student, and caring only for his money. To quote Jefferson's words about slavery, “I tremble when I remember that God is just,” whenever I see a man, for a petty consider- ation of money, teaching his slight knowledge of Mind-power, — perhaps communicating his own bad morals by mental inoculation, and in this way dealing mercilessly with a community unprepared for self-defence.

My publications alone heal more sickness than an unconscientious student can begin to reach. If patients seem the worse for reading my book, this change may