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Rh Your course may provoke envy, but will attract respect also. When error confronts you, withhold not the rebuke or explanation which destroys it. Never breathe an immoral atmosphere, unless in the attempt to purify it. Better is the frugal intellectual meal, with contentment and virtue, than the luxury of learning, with egotism and vice.

Right is radical. The teacher must know the Truth himself. He must live it and love it, or he cannot

impart it to others. We soil our garments with conservatism, and afterwards must wash them clean. When the spiritual sense of Truth unfolds her harmonies to you, take no risks in the policy of error. Expect to heal by simply repeating the author's words, by right talking and wrong acting, and you will be disappointed. Such practices as these do not demonstrate the Science whereby divine Mind heals the sick.

Acting from sinister motives destroys your power of healing from the right motive. If you had the inclination

or power to practise wrongfully, and then should adopt Christian Science, the lesser power would be destroyed, and vice versa. You do not deny the mathematician's right to distinguish the correct from the incorrect, among the examples on the blackboard, or disbelieve the musician, when he distinguishes concord from discord. In like manner the author ought to understand what she is saying.

Wrong and right, Truth and error, will be at strife in the minds of students, until victory rests on the side

of immutable right. Mental chemicalization follows the explanation of Truth, and a higher basis is thus won; but with some individuals