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My sympathies are deeply enlisted for the students of students; having already seen in many instances their [25]

talents, culture, and singleness of purpose to uplift the race. Such students should not pay the penalty for other people's faults; and divine Love will open the way for them. My soul abhors injustice, and loves mercy. St. John writes: ”Whom G.o.d hath sent speaketh [30]

the words of G.o.d: for G.o.d giveth not the Spirit by meas- ure unto him.”

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My Students And Thy Students

Mine and thine are obsolete terms in absolute Christian [2]

Science, wherein and whereby the universal brotherhood of man is stated and demands to be demonstrated. I have a large affection, not alone for my students, but for thy [5]

students,-for students of the second generation. I can- not but love some of those devoted students better than some of mine who are less lovable or Christly. This natural affection for goodness must go on _ad libitum_ unto the third and fourth and final generation of those who [10]

love G.o.d and keep His commandments. Hence the following is an amendment of the paragraph on page 47(6) of ”Retrospection and Introspection”:-

Any student, having received instructions in a Primary cla.s.s from me, or from a loyal student of Christian Science, [15]

and afterwards studied thoroughly ”Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” can enter upon the gospel work of teaching Christian Science, and so fulfil the command of Christ. Before entering this sacred field of labor, the student must have studied faithfully the latest edi- [20]

tions of my works, and be a good Bible scholar and a devout, consecrated Christian.

These are the indispensable demands on all those who become teachers.

Unseen Sin

Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making [26]

sin seem either too large or too little: if too large, we

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are in the darkness of all the ages, wherein the true sense [1]

of the unity of good and the unreality of evil is lost.

If good is G.o.d, even as G.o.d is good, then good and evil can neither be coeval nor coequal, for G.o.d is All-in- all. This closes the argument of aught besides Him, aught [5]

else than good.

If the sense of sin is too little, mortals are in danger of not seeing their own belief in sin, but of seeing too keenly their neighbor's. Then they are beset with egotism and hypocrisy. Here Christian Scientists must [10]

be most watchful. Their habit of mental and audible protest against the reality of sin, tends to make sin less or more to them than to other people. They must either be overcoming sin in themselves, or they must not lose sight of sin; else they are self-deceived sinners of the [15]

worst sort.

A Word To The Wise

Will all the dear Christian Scientists accept my tender greetings for the forthcoming holidays, and grant me this request,-let the present season pa.s.s without one [20]

gift to me.

Our church edifice must be built in 1894. Take thither thy saintly offerings, and lay them in the outstretched hand of G.o.d. The object to be won affords ample oppor- tunity for the grandest achievement to which Christian [25]