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456 for you intentionally to influence mankind adverse to its highest hope and achievement.

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

Strict adherence to the divine Principle and rules of the scientific method has secured the only success of the students of Christian Science. This alone entitles them to the high standing which most of them hold in the community, a reputation experimentally justified by their efforts. Whoever affirms that there is more than one Principle and method of demonstrating Christian Science greatly errs, ignorantly or intentionally, and separates himself from the true conception of Christian Science healing and from its possible demonstration.

Any dishonesty in your theory and practice betrays a gross ignorance of the method of the Christ-cure. Science

makes no concessions to persons or opinions, One must abide in the morale of truth or he cannot demonstrate the divine Principle. So long as matter is the basis of practice, illness cannot be efficaciously treated by the metaphysical process. Truth does the work, and you must both understand and abide by the divine Principle of your demonstration.

A Christian Scientist requires my work for his textbook, and so do all his students and

patients. Why? First: Because it is the voice of Truth to this age, and contains the full statement of Christian Science, or the Science of healing through Mind. Second: Because it was the first book known, containing a thorough statement of Christian Science. Hence it gave the first rules for demonstrating