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,
Study of medicine
and consistency of systematic medical
study, she tries to show them that under ordinary
circumstances a resort to faith in corporeal means
tends to deter those, who make such a compromise, from
entire confidence in omnipotent Mind as really possessing
all power. While a course of medical study is at times
severely condemned by some Scientists, 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 can be benefited by Failure's lessons certain ordinary physical methods of medical treatment, then the Mind-physician should give up such cases, and leave invalids free to resort to whatever other systems they fancy will afford relief. Thus such invalids may learn the value of the apostolic precept: “Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” If the sick find these material expedients
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