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352 The higher your attainment in the Science of mental healing and teaching, the more impossible it will become for you to influence minds in any way adverse to their highest interest. Jesus could injure no one by his mind-reading. The effect of his Mind was always to heal and save. His holy motives and aims were traduced by the sinners of that period, as they would be to-day, if Jesus were personally present, practising his Christian Science. No one, taught of God to discern the healing power of Truth, can misuse this mental force. This strong point in Christian Science is not to be overlooked, — that “the same fountain cannot send forth both sweet and bitter waters.”

The student who receives his knowledge of Christian Science, or Metaphysical Healing, from a human teacher, may be mistaken in judgment and demonstration; but God cannot mistake when He selects one for this service who has grown into such a fitness for it, as renders any abuse of her mission an impossibility. The All-wise does not bestow His trusts upon the unworthy, when He commissions a messenger who is spiritually near Himself.

Since the divine light of Christian Science first dawned upon me, I have never used this newly discovered power in any direction that I should fear to have openly known. It was not till years after I was personally attacked by mental malpractice, not until this attack was aimed at my life, that I investigated this subject thoroughly, and discovered the full purpose and extent of metaphysical quackery.

Though the Scriptures so prophesy of this age, it never seemed to me that the Truth of God could be made to appear a lie, until the Judases began to multiply, and