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446 The wrong done to another reacts most heavily against one's self. Right adjusts the balance sooner or later.

Think it easier to make evil good, than to benefit yourself by injuring others. Man's moral mercury, rising or falling, registers his healing ability and fitness to teach. You should practise well what you know, and you will then advance in proportion to your honesty and fidelity, — qualities which insure success in this Science; but it requires a higher understanding to teach this subject properly and correctly, than to heal the most difficult case.

The baneful effect of evil associates is less seen than felt. The inoculation of evil human thoughts ought to

be understood and guarded against. A good detective of individual character is the first impression made on a mind which is attracted or repelled according to personal merit or demerit. Certain minds meet, only to separate through simultaneous repulsion. They are enemies, without the preliminary offence. The impure are at peace with the impure. Only virtue is a rebuke to vice. A teacher of Christian Science is at fault, if he improves not the health and the morals of his students. He is a Scientist only in name.

There is a large class of thinkers whose bigotry and conceit twist every fact to suit themselves. Their creed

teaches belief in a mysterious, supernatural God, and in a supernatural, all-powerful Devil. Another class of people, still more unfortunate, are so depraved that they appear to be innocent. They utter a falsehood, while looking you blandly in the face, and never fail to stab benefactors in the back. A third class of thinkers build with solid masonry.