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328 barrier to the recovery of the sick and the success of the student. Casting aside moral honesty, for the mistaken policy of dishonesty, betrays an ignorance of Christian Science, that must unfit one to heal or to teach. If a disciple repeats the rules like a parrot, this shows that he has not understood them. He has gained no knowledge for himself, and will not always be able to stand on another's wisdom and experience.

Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better to leave the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while you confine yourself chiefly to mental reconstruction, and the prevention of inflammation or protracted confinement.

Christian Science is always the most skilful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing that will be last demonstrated. However, it is but just to say that I have already in my possession well-authenticated records of the cure, by mental surgery alone, of dislocated hip-joints and spinal vertebræ.

The time approaches when mortal mind will forsake its personal, structural, and material basis, sufficiently for the Immortal Mind and its formations to be apprehended, in a realm where material thought interferes not with the spiritual facts of man, whose form is indestructible and eternal. Then it will be found that Mind constructs the body, and with its own materials. Hence no breakage or dislocation can occur. We say that accidents, injuries, and disease kill man; but that is not true. The life of the body is Mind. The body manifests only what mind admits, whether it be a broken bone, disease, or sin.