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Rh conditions for healing the sick. Such mental states indicate weakness, instead of strength. Hence the necessity of being right yourself, in order to teach this Science of Healing. You must utilize the might of Mind, and its moral power, in order to walk over the waves of error, and support your claims by demonstration. If lost yourself in the belief and fear of disease, and ignorant of the mental remedy, you fail to use the energies of Mind in your own behalf, you can exercise little or no power for others' help. “First cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother's eye.”

Men in business have found Christian Science important to enhance their physical and mental powers, to enlarge their perception of character, to give them acuteness and comprehensiveness, and an ability to go beyond their ordinary business capacity. The mind, imbued with this Science, becomes more elastic, is capable of greater endurance, and requires less repose.

The Science of Being develops the latent capacities and possibilities of man. It extends the atmosphere of thought, giving mortals access to broader and higher circles. A confined odor is not as beneficent as the escaped fragrance.

Give up the belief that Mind is compressed within the skull, and that matter is the limit of humanity, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly, understanding yourselves and your Maker better than before.

Man is never sick; for Mind is not sick, and matter cannot be. Illusion is both the tempter and the tempted, the sin and the sinner, the disease and its cause, death and the dying. It is well to be cheerful in sickness; to