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that these are the errors which Truth must and will
annihilate? Christian Scientists must live under the constant
pressure of the apostolic command to come out from
the material world and be separate. They must renounce
aggression, oppression and the pride of power.
Christianity, with the crown of Love upon her brow,
must be their queen of life.
(Treasure in heaven)
Students of Christian Science, who start with its letter
and think to succeed without the spirit, will either make
shipwreck of their faith or be turned sadly
awry. They must not only seek, but strive,
to enter the narrow path of Life, for "wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and
many there be which go in thereat." Man walks in the
direction towards which he looks, and where his treasure
is, there will his heart be also. If our hopes and affections
are spiritual, they come from above, not from beneath,
and they bear as of old the fruits of the Spirit.
(Obligations of teachers)
Every Christian Scientist, every conscientious teacher
of the Science of Mind-healing, knows that human will
is not Christian Science, and he must recognize
this in order to defend himself from the
influence of human will. He feels morally obligated to
open the eyes of his students that they may perceive the
nature and methods of error of every sort, especially any
subtle degree of evil, deceived and deceiving. All mental
malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought.
It is the injurious action of one mortal mind controlling
another from wrong motives, and it is practised either
with a mistaken or a wicked purpose.
(Indispensable defence)
Show your student that mental malpractice tends to
blast moral sense, health, and the human life. Instruct
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