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450 the morbid moral and physical symptoms constantly reappear, I have never witnessed as decided effects from the use of material remedies as from the use of spiritual.

Teach your student that he must know himself, before he can know others and minister to human needs.

Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is human weakness, which forfeits divine help. You uncover sin, not in order to injure, but in order to bless the corporeal man; and a right motive has its reward. Hidden sin is spiritual wickedness in high places. The masquerader in this Science thanks God there is no evil, yet serves evil in the name of Good.

You should treat sickness mentally just as you would sin, except that you must not tell the patient he is sick,

or give names to diseases; for such a course increases fear, the foundation of disease, and impresses more deeply the wrong mind-picture. A Christian Scientist's medicine is Mind. He never recommends hygiene, never manipulates. He never tries to “focus mind.” He never places patient and practitioner back to back, never consults spirits, or requires the life-history of his patient. Above all, he cannot trespass on the rights of mind through animal magnetism. It need not be added that the use of tobacco and intoxicating drinks is not in harmony with Christian Science.

Teach your students the omnipotence of Truth, which illustrates the impotence of error. The understanding,

in a degree, of the divine all-power, destroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path, — the path which leads to the house built without hands,