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thought into accord with the spirit of Truth and Love,
which heals the sick and the sinner.
A mental state of self-condemnation and guilt or a
faltering and doubting trust in Truth are unsuitable
conditions for healing the sick. Such mental
states indicate weakness instead of strength.
Hence the necessity of being right yourself in order to
teach this Science of healing. You must utilize the moral
might of Mind in order to walk over the waves of error
and support your claims by demonstration. If you are
yourself lost in the belief and fear of disease or sin, and
if, knowing 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 out the beam out
of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast
out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
(The trust of the All-wise)
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. God 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 highest
trusts upon the unworthy. When He commissions a messenger,
it is one who is spiritually near Himself. No person
can misuse this mental power, if he is taught of God
to discern it.
(Integrity assured)
This strong point in Christian Science is not to be
overlooked, - that the same fountain cannot send forth
both sweet waters and bitter. The higher
your attainment in the Science of mental
healing and teaching, the more impossible it will become
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