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Rh it is undenied. Under such circumstances, to say there is no evil, is an evil in itself. Evasion of Truth cripples integrity, and casts thee down from the pinnacle.

Christian Science rises above the evidence of the corporeal senses; but if you have not risen above sin

yourself, do not congratulate yourself upon your blindness to evil, or upon the good you know and do not. A dishonest position is far from Christianly Scientific. “He that confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall find mercy.” Try to leave on every student's mind the impress of Divine Science, a high sense of the moral and spiritual qualifications requisite for healing, well knowing it to be impossible for error and hate to accomplish the grand results of Truth and Love. The reception and pursuit of instructions opposite to the absolute must always hinder Scientific demonstration.

If the student adheres strictly to its teachings, and ventures not to break the rules of Christian Science,

he cannot fail of success in healing. It is Christian Science to do right, and nothing short of right-doing has any claim to the name. To talk right and live wrong is foolish deceit, doing one's self the most harm. Fettered by sin yourself, it is difficult to free another from the fetters of disease. With your own wrists manacled, it is hard to break another's chains. A little leaven causes the whole mass to ferment. A grain of Christian Science does wonders for mortals, so omnipotent is Truth; but more of Christian Science must be gained, in order to continue in well-doing.