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442 Then no hypothesis, as to the existence of another power, can interpose a doubt or fear, to hinder the

demonstration of Christian Science. Unfold the latent energies and capacities for good in your scholar. Teach the great possibilities of man endued with Divine Science. Teach the fatal effect of dwarfing the spiritual understanding by recourse to material means for healing. Teach the meekness and might of “Life hidden with Christ,” and there will be no desire for other healing methods. You render the divine law of healing obscure and void, when you weigh the human in the scale with the divine, or limit, in any direction of thought, the omnipresence and omnipotence of God.

Christian Science silences human will, quiets material thought with Truth and Love, and illustrates the

unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick. Self-seeking, envy, passion, pride, hatred, and revenge flee before the Mind which heals disease. Whatever maketh or worketh a lie, hiding the divine Principle of harmony, is destructive to health, and is the cause of disease, rather than its cure.

There is great danger in teaching Mind-healing indiscriminately, thus disregarding the morals of the

student, and caring only for the fees. To quote Jefferson's words about slavery, “I tremble, when I remember that God is just,” the author trembles whenever she sees a man, for a petty consideration of money, teaching his slight knowledge of Mind-power, — perhaps communicating his own bad morals by mental inoculation, and in this way dealing pitilessly with a community unprepared for self-defence.