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Rh receive no help therefrom, these very failures may open their blind eyes. In some way, sooner or later, all must rise superior to materiality; and suffering is oft the divine agent in this elevation. “All things work together for good to them that love God,” is the dictum of Scripture.

If Christian Scientists ever fail to receive aid from other Scientists, — their brethren, upon whom they may

call, — God will still guide such sufferers into the use of right means. Step by step will those who trust Him find that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”

Students are advised, by their Teacher, to be charitable and kind, not only towards differing forms of religion

and medicine, but to those who hold these opinions. Let us be faithful in pointing the way through Christ, as we understand it; but let us also be careful never to “judge unrighteous judgment,” or condemn rashly. “Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” If ecclesiastical sects or medical schools turn a deaf ear to the teachings of Christian Science, then part from these opponents as did Abraham, when he parted from Lot, and say with the heart: “Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are brethren.” Immortals, or God's children in Divine Science, are one family; but mortals, or the “children of men” in sense, are one unreal family, and are false brethren.

The teacher must make clear to students the Science of Healing, especially its ethics, — that all is Mind, and that the Scientist must conform to God's requirements