When the divine precepts
are understood, they unfold the foundation of fellowship,
6in which one mind is not at war with another, but all have
one Spirit, God, one intelligent source, in accordance with
the Scriptural command: "Let this Mind be in you,
9which was also in Christ Jesus."

30 With
470:1one Father, even God, the whole family of man would
be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good,
3the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth,
and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which
constitute divine Science.

9The presence of
mistrust, where confidence is due, withers the flowers
of Eden and scatters love's petals to decay.

Audible prayer is impressive; it gives momentary
9solemnity and elevation to thought. But does it pro‐
Audible
praying duce any lasting benefit? Looking deeply
into these things, we find that "a zeal . . .
12not according to knowledge" gives occasion for reac‐
tion unfavorable to spiritual growth, sober resolve, and
wholesome perception of God's requirements. The mo‐
15tives for verbal prayer may embrace too much love of
applause to induce or encourage Christian sentiment.

Did the careless doctor, the nurse, the cook, and the
365:1brusque business visitor sympathetically know the thorns
they plant in the pillow of the sick and the heavenly
Compassion
requisite 3homesick looking away from earth, — Oh, did
they know! — this knowledge would do much
more towards healing the sick and preparing their helpers
6for the "midnight call," than all cries of "Lord, Lord!"
The benign thought of Jesus, finding utterance in such
words as "Take no thought for your life," would heal
9the sick, and so enable them to rise above the supposed
necessity for physical thought-taking and doctoring;
but if the unselfish affections be lacking, and common
12sense and common humanity are disregarded, what men‐
tal quality remains, with which to evoke healing from
the outstretched arm of righteousness?

12The physician who lacks sympathy for his fellow‐
being is deficient in human affection, and we have the
The true
physician apostolic warrant for asking: "He that loveth
15not his brother whom he hath seen, how can
he love God whom he hath not seen?" Not having this
spiritual affection, the physician lacks faith in the divine
18Mind and has not that recognition of infinite Love which
alone confers the healing power.

The physician must also watch, lest he be over‐
whelmed by a sense of the odiousness of sin and by the
Source of
calmness 24unveiling of sin in his own thoughts. The
sick are terrified by their sick beliefs, and
sinners should be affrighted by their sinful beliefs; but
27the Christian Scientist will be calm in the presence of
both sin and disease, knowing, as he does, that Life is
God and God is All.

30If we would open their prison doors for the sick, we
must first learn to bind up the broken-hearted. If we
would heal by the Spirit, we must not hide the talent
367:1of spiritual healing under the napkin of its form, nor
bury the morale of Christian Science in the grave-clothes
Genuine
healing 3of its letter. The tender word and Christian
encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience
with his fears and the removal of them, are better than
6hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed
speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so
many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame
9with divine Love.

We soil our garments with con‐
21servatism, and afterwards we must wash them
clean.

6 "Love one an‐
other" (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound
counsel of the inspired writer. In Science we are chil‐
9dren of God; but whatever is of material sense, or mor‐
tal, belongs not to His children, for materiality is the
inverted image of spirituality.

Jesus beheld in Science the per‐
477:1fect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal
man appears to mortals.

Keep distinctly in
27thought that man is the offspring of God, not of man;
that man is spiritual, not material; that Soul is Spirit,
outside of matter, never in it, never giving the body life
30and sensation.

In this Science, we dis‐
6cover man in the image and likeness of God. We see that
man has never lost his spiritual estate and his eternal
harmony.

In men‐
6tal practice you must not forget that erring human opin‐
ions, conflicting selfish motives, and ignorant attempts
to do good may render you incapable of knowing or
9judging accurately the need of your fellow-men.

12Ignorance, subtlety, or false charity does not for‐
ever conceal error; evil will in time disclose and pun‐
Expose sin
without
believing in it ish itself.

Expose and denounce the claims of
21evil and disease in all their forms, but realize no
reality in them.

Matter, sin, and mortality lose all
supposed consciousness or claim to life or existence, as
30mortals lay off a false sense of life, substance, and intelli‐
gence. But the spiritual, eternal man is not touched by
these phases of mortality.

312:1How true it is that whatever is learned through material
sense must be lost because such so-called knowledge is
Sense‐
dreams 3reversed by the spiritual facts of being in
Science. That which material sense calls
intangible, is found to be substance. What to material
6sense seems substance, becomes nothingness, as the sense‐
dream vanishes and reality appears.

To be immortal, we must forsake the
No healing
in sin 3mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of false
belief to Truth, and gather the facts of being
from the divine Mind.

6The destruction of the claims of mortal mind through
Liberation
of mental
powers Science, by which man can escape from sin
and mortality, blesses the whole human fam‐
9ily. As in the beginning, however, this libera‐
tion does not scientifically show itself in a knowledge of
both good and evil, for the latter is unreal.

Self-forgetfulness,
Trustworthy
beneficence 27purity, and affection are constant prayers.

Paul
6said, "To be spiritually minded is life." We approach
God, or Life, in proportion to our spirituality, our fidel‐
ity to Truth and Love; and in that ratio we know all
9human need and are able to discern the thought of the
sick and the sinning for the purpose of healing them.
Error of any kind cannot hide from the law of God.

12Whoever reaches this point of moral culture and good‐
ness cannot injure others, and must do them good.

12 Love, redolent with unselfish‐
ness, bathes all in beauty and light. The grass beneath
our feet silently exclaims, "The meek shall inherit the
15earth." The modest arbutus sends her sweet breath to
heaven. The great rock gives shadow and shelter. The
sunlight glints from the church-dome, glances into the
18prison-cell, glides into the sick-chamber, brightens the
flower, beautifies the landscape, blesses the earth.