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Rh “eternal in the Heavens.” Human hate has no legitimate mandate and no kingdom. Love is enthroned. That evil or matter has neither intelligence nor power, is the doctrine of absolute Christian Science; and this is the great Truth which strips all disguise from error.

He who understands in any degree the Principle of Mind-healing, points out to his student error as well as

Truth, the wrong as well as the right practice. Love for God and man is the true incentive to both healing and teaching. It inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of Truth. Wait patiently for Spirit to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the divine concept. Patience must “have her perfect work.”

Do not dismiss students, at the close of a class term, feeling that you have no more to do for them. Note

well their future years. Let loving care and counsel support all feeble footsteps, until they tread firmly in the strait and narrow way. The superiority of spiritual power over sensuous is the central point of Christian Science. Remember that the letter and mental argument are only human auxiliaries, to aid in bringing thought into accord with the spirit of Truth and Love.

A mental state of self-condemnation and guilt, or a faltering and doubting trust in Truth, are unsuitable

conditions for healing the sick. Such mental states indicate weakness, instead of strength. Hence the necessity of being right yourself, in ordei to teach this Science of Healing. You must utilize the