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80 hard master. Whoever would demonstrate the healing of Christian Science must abide by my rules; heed every statement, and advance from the rudiments laid down. There is nothing difficult or toilsome in this task, when the way is pointed out, but sincerity and earnestness alone win the prize.

Christian Science is not an exception to the general rule, that there is no excellence without labor in a direct line. One cannot scatter fire, and at the same time defeat the enemy. To pursue other vocations, and at the same time advance rapidly in the demonstration of this Science, is not possible.

You should practise what you know well; and you will then advance in proportion to your honesty and fidelity, — qualities which insure success in this Science as in all others; but it requires a higher understanding to teach this subject properly and correctly, than to heal the most difficult case.

Motive and act are not rightly valued until understood. It is well to wait until those whom you wish to benefit are ready for the blessing. Science is changing individual character, as well as the material universe.

Self-love is a materialism, more opaque than atomic solidity. Yielding patient obedience to a patient God, I labor to dissolve, with the universal solvent of Truth, the adamant of error in self-will, self-justification, and self-love; for these war against spirituality and are the law of sin and death.

It is a question to-day, whether the ancient inspired healers understood the Science of Christian healing, or whether they caught its sweet tones, like the natural