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SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

Soul bearing opposite testimony saith: —

I am Spirit. Man, whose senses are spiritual, is my likeness. I give him understanding, for I am full of unutterable perfections. The beauty of holiness, the infinity of being, imperishable glory, all are mine, for I am God. I grasp and gather into myself all bliss, for I am Love. I give immortality to man, for I am Truth. I am Life, without beginning and without end. I am supreme over all, because I am Intelligence. I am the Substance of all, because I am that I am.


BREVITIES ON TEACHING.

The teacher must make clear the Science of Healing to students, — that all is Mind, and that the Scientist must conform to God's requirements. Then no hypothesis, as to the existence of another power, can interpose a doubt or fear, to hinder the demonstration of Christian Science. Unfold the latent energies and capacities for good in your scholar. Teach the great possibilities of man endued with Divine Science. Teach the fatal effect of dwarfing this understanding by recourse to other means for healing. Teach the meekness and might of a “life hidden with Christ,” and there will be no desire for any other healing methods. You render the divine law of healing obscure and void, when you weigh the human in the scale with the divine, or limit, in any direction of thought, the omnipresence and omnipotence of God.

A Christian Scientist never gives medicine, never recommends hygiene, never manipulates. He never tries to “focus mind.” He never places patient and practitioner “back to back,” never consults “spirits,” nor requires the life-history of his patient. Above all he cannot trespass on the rights of Mind through animal