CHAPTER XIII.
TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. — Proverbs.
WHEN the discoverer of Christian Science is
consulted by her followers, as to the propriety,
advantage, and consistency of ordinary medical study, she
Study of medicine.
tries to show them that any exercise of
faith in matter or corporeality must tend to
alienate them from their confidence in omnipotent Mind,
as really possessing all power. While such a course of
study is at times severely condemned by some persons,
however, she feels, as she always has felt, that all are
privileged to work out their own salvation according to
their light, and that our motto should be the Master's
counsel, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
If patients fail to experience the healing power of Christian Science, and think they may be benefited by Failure's lessons. certain ordinary physical methods of medical treatment, then the Mind-physician ought to give up such cases, and leave invalids free to resort to whatever other systems they fancy will afford relief. Thus they may learn the value of the apostolic precept: “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” If the sick find these expedients unsatisfactory, and they
