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patience in tribulation, and a priceless sense of the dear
Father's loving-kindness.
(Moral evils to be cast out)
In order to cure his patient, the metaphysician
must first cast moral evils out of himself and thus
attain the spiritual freedom which will enable
him to cast physical evils out of his
patient; but heal he cannot, while his own spiritual
barrenness debars him from giving drink to the thirsty
and hinders him from reaching his patient's thought, -
yea, while mental penury chills his faith and
understanding.
(The true physician)
The physician who lacks sympathy for his fellow-being
is deficient in human affection, and we have the
apostolic warrant for asking: "He that loveth
not his brother whom he hath seen, how can
he love God whom he hath not seen?" Not having this
spiritual affection, the physician lacks faith in the divine
Mind and has not that recognition of infinite Love which
alone confers the healing power. Such so-called Scientists
will strain out gnats, while they swallow the camels
of bigoted pedantry.
(Source of calmness)
The physician must also watch, lest he be overwhelmed
by a sense of the odiousness of sin and by the
unveiling of sin in his own thoughts. The
sick are terrified by their sick beliefs, and
sinners should be affrighted by their sinful beliefs; but
the Christian Scientist will be calm in the presence of
both sin and disease, knowing, as he does, that Life is
God and God is All.
(Genuine healing)
If we would open their prison doors for the sick, we
must first learn to bind up the broken-hearted. If we
would heal by the Spirit, we must not hide the talent
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