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302 of your patients, and you must rise daily into higher and holier being.

A moral question may hinder the recovery of the sick. Lurking revenge and malice may perpetuate, or even create disease. Errors of all sorts tend in this direction. Your true course is to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God, Life, Truth, and Love, remembering that God and His ideas alone are real and lasting.

If mental malpractice or mesmerism is trying to produce a relapse, and wicked minds are becoming dangerous to your patients, remove such obstacles by the Principle of Christian Science, letting Truth destroy error.

Conservatism, or any dishonesty in your theory or practice, would betray a gross ignorance of the method of the Christ-cure that Christian Science reveals. Science makes no concessions to persons or opinions. One must abide strictly by its rules, or he cannot demonstrate its Principle. So long as drugs are administered, or external applications prescribed, illness cannot be efficaciously treated through the metaphysical process. Truth does the work wholly, and you must understand and abide by this Divine Principle of your demonstration.

Animal magnetism, clairvoyance, mediumship, and mesmerism are antagonistic to this Science, and would prevent the demonstration thereof. Teaching or practising in the name of Truth, but contrary to its rules, is most dangerous quackery. It imposes upon the people and does immense harm. Strict adherence to the Principle and rules of my sanitary method has secured the only success of my students. That alone entitles them to the high standing they hold in the community.