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452 moral might of Mind, in order to walk over the waves of error, and support your claims by demonstration. If yourself lost in the belief and fear of disease and sin, and, ignorant of the remedy, you fail to use the energies of Mind in your own behalf, you can exercise little or no power for others' help. “First cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother's eye.”

The student who receives his knowledge of Christian Science, or Metaphysical Healing, from a human teacher.

may be mistaken in judgment and demonstration; but God cannot mistake. He selects for the highest service one who has grown into such a fitness for it as renders any abuse of the mission an impossibility. The All-wise does not bestow His trusts upon the unworthy, when He commissions a messenger who is spiritually near Himself. No one can misuse this mental force, if taught of God to discern the healing power of Truth.

This strong point in Christian Science is not to be overlooked, — that the same fountain cannot send forth both

sweet and bitter waters. The higher your attainment in the Science of mental healing and teaching, the more impossible it will become for you to influence minds in any way adverse to their highest interest.

Teaching or practising in the name of Truth, but contrary to its rules, is most dangerous quackery. Strict

adherence to the Principle and rules of the Scientific method has secured the only success of its students. That alone entitles them to the high standing which many of them hold in the community, a reputation experimentally justified by their efforts.