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74 When you manipulate patients, you trust in electricity and magnetism more than in Truth; and for that reason

you employ matter rather than Mind. You weaken or destroy your power, if you resort to any except spiritual means.

It is foolish to say that you manipulate patients, but that you lay no stress on that manipulation. If this be so, why manipulate them? Really you do so because you are ignorant of the baneful effects of magnetism, or are not sufficiently spiritual to depend on Spirit. In this case you must improve your mental condition till you finally attain the understanding of Christian Science.

If you are too material to love the Science of Mind, and are satisfied with good words instead of deeds, if

you adhere to error and are afraid to trust Truth, the question then recurs, “Adam, where art thou?” It is unnecessary to resort to aught besides Mind, in order to satisfy the sick that you are doing something for them; for if they are cured, they generally know it, and are satisfied.

“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” If you have more faith in drugs than in Truth, this faith will incline you to the side of matter and error. Any hypnotic power you may exercise will diminish your ability to become a Scientist, and vice versa. The act of healing the sick through Mind alone, of casting out error with Truth, shows your position as a Christian.

The demands of God appeal to thought only; but the claims of mortality, and what are termed laws of nature,

appertain to matter. Which, then, are we to accept as legitimate, and capable of producing the highest human good? We cannot obey both