Public lectures cannot be such
lessons in Christian Science as are required to empty and 27
to fill anew the individual mind.

If publicity and material control are the motives for 1
teaching, then public lectures can take the place of private
lessons; but the former can never give a thorough knowledge 3
of Christian Science, and a Christian Scientist will never
undertake to fit students for practice by such means. Lec-
tures in public are needed, but they must be subordinate 6
to thorough class instruction in any branch of education.

None with an imperfect sense of the spiritual significa-
tion of the Bible, and its scientific relation to Mind- 9
healing, should attempt overmuch in their translation of
the Scriptures into the "new tongue;" but I see that
some novices, in the truth of Science, and some impostors are 12
committing this error.

_Is there more than one school of scientific healing?_

In reality there is, and can be, but one school of the 15
Science of Mind-healing. Any departure from Science is
an irreparable loss of Science. Whatever is said and
written correctly on this Science originates from the Princi- 18
ple and practice laid down in Science and Health, a work
which I published in 1875. This was the first book, re-
corded in history, which elucidates a pathological Science 21
purely mental.

Minor shades of difference in Mind-healing have origi-
nated with certain opposing factions, springing up among 24
unchristian students, who, fusing with a class of aspirants
which snatch at whatever is progressive, call it their first-
fruits, or else _post mortem_ evidence. 27

A slight divergence is fatal in Science. Like certain 1
Jews whom St. Paul had hoped to convert from mere
motives of self-aggrandizement to the love of Christ, these 3
so-called schools are clogging the wheels of progress by
blinding the people to the true character of Christian
Science, -- its moral power, and its divine efficacy to 6
heal.

The true understanding of Christian Science Mind-
healing never originated in pride, rivalry, or the deification 9
of self. The Discoverer of this Science could tell you of
timidity, of self-distrust, of friendlessness, toil, agonies, and
victories under which she needed miraculous vision to 12
sustain her, when taking the first footsteps in this
Science.

The ways