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448 must not only seek, but strive, to enter the narrow path of Life, for “broad is the road that leads to death, and

many there be which go in thereat.” Man walks in the direction towards which he looks, and “where his treasure is, there will his heart be also.” If our hopes and affections are spiritual, they come from above, not from beneath, and they bear, as of old, the fruits of the Spirit.

Every Christian Scientist, every conscientious teacher of the Science of Mind-healing, knows that hypnotism

is error, and he must recognize this in order to defend himself from its influence. He feels morally obligated to open the eyes of his students to perceive the nature and methods of error of every sort, especially the highest degrees of evil, deceived and deceiving. All mental malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought. It is the action of one mortal mind taking control of another, without the other's knowledge or consent, and is practised from mistaken or wicked motives.

Show your student that all animal magnetism blasts the moral sense, health, and human life. Instruct him

how to bar the door of his mind against this seeming power, — a task not difficult, when one understands that evil has really no power. Incorrect reasoning leads to practical error. The wrong thought should be arrested, before it has a chance to manifest itself.

Walking in the light, we are accustomed to it, and

require it. We cannot see in darkness; but eyes accustomed to darkness are pained by the light. Outgrowing the old, fear not to put on the new.