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Rh pollen, from one human mind to another, finding unsuspected lodgment, if virtue and Truth build a strong defence. Better suffer a doctor infected with smallpox to attend you, than be treated mentally by one who obeys not the Christian requirements of Science.

The teachers of our private and public schools should be selected with as direct reference to their morals

as to their learning. Nurseries of character should be strongly garrisoned with virtue. School-examinations are one-sided. It is not so much academic education, as a moral and spiritual culture, which lifts one higher. The pure and uplifting thoughts of the teacher, constantly imparted to pupils, will reach higher than the heavens of astronomy; while the debased and unscrupulous mind, though adorned with gems of scholarly attainment, will degrade the characters it should inform and elevate.

Physicians, whom the sick employ in their helplessness, should be models of virtue. They should be wise

spiritual guides, when material things cease to bring ease or hope. To the tremblers on the brink of death, who understand not the Truth which perpetuates Being, such physicians should be able to teach it; that when the heart is willing and the flesh weak, the patient's feet may be planted on the rock Christ Jesus, the basis of spiritual power.

Clergymen, standing on the watchtowers of the world, should uplift the standard of Truth fearlessly. They

should so raise their hearers spiritually, that those hearers will love to grapple with a new idea, and so broaden their own thoughts. Love of