should not spread abroad patchwork
ideas that in some vital points lack Science. How sad it is that envy will
bend its bow and shoot its arrow at the idea which claims only its
inheritance, is naturally modest, generous, and sincere! while the
trespassing error murders either friend or foe who stands in its way. Truly
it is better to fall into the hands of God, than of man.

When I revised "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in 1878,
some irresponsible people insisted that my manual of the practice of
Christian Science Mind-healing should not be made public; but I obeyed a
diviner rule. People dependent on the rules of this practice for their
healing, not having lost the Spirit which sustains the genuine practice,
will put that book in the hands of their patients, whom it will heal, and
recommend it to their students, whom it would enlighten. Every teacher must
pore over it in secret, to keep himself well informed. The Nemesis of the
history of Mind-healing notes this hour.

Dishonesty necessarily stultifies the spiritual sense which Mind-healers
specially need; and which they must possess, in order to be safe members of
the community. How good and pleasant a thing it is to seek not so much
thine own as another's good, to sow by the wayside for the way-weary, and
trust Love's recompense of love.

Plagiarism from my writings is so common it is becoming odious to honest
people; and such compilations, instead of possessing the essentials of
Christian Science, are tempting and misleading.

Reading Science and Health has restored the sick to health; but the task
of learning thoroughly the Science of Mind-healing and demonstrating it
understandingly had better be undertaken in health than sickness.

DISEASE UNREAL

Disease is more than _imagination_; it is a human error, a constituent part
of what comprise the whole of mortal existence,--namely, material sensation
and mental delusion. But an erring sense of existence, or the error of
belief, named disease, never made sickness a stubborn reality. On the
ground that harmony is the truth of being, the Science of Mind-healing
destroys the feasibility of disease; hence error of thought becomes fable
instead of fact. Science demonstrates the reality of Truth and the
unreality of the error. A self-evident proposition, in the Science of
Mind-healing, is that disease is unreal; and the efficacy of my system,
beyond other systems of medicine, vouches for the val