d to [20]
fulfil all the claims growing out of this contract, unless
such claims are relinquished by mutual consent of both
parties, or this contract is legally dissolved. If the man
is dominant over the animal, he will count the conse-
quences of his own conduct; will consider the effects, [25]
on himself and his progeny, of selfishness, unmerciful-
ness, tyranny, or lust.

Trust Truth, not error; and Truth will give you all
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wrote, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean [1]
not unto thine own understanding." Nothing is gained
by wrong-doing. St. Paul's words take in the situation:
"Not ... (as we be slanderously reported, and as some
affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? [5]
whose damnation is just."

When causing others to go astray, we also are wan-
derers. "With what measure ye mete, it shall be meas-
ured to you again." Ask yourself: Under the same
circumstances, in the same spiritual ignorance and power [10]
of passion, would I be strengthened by having my best
friend break troth with me? These words of St. Matthew
have special application to Christian Scientists; namely,
"It is not good to marry."

To build on selfishness is to build on sand. When [15]
Jesus received the material rite of water baptism, he did
not say that it was God's command; but implied that
the period demanded it. Trials purify mortals and deliver
them from themselves,--all the claims of sensuality.
Abide by the _morale_ of absolute Christian Science,-- [20]
self-abnegation and purity; then Truth delivers you from
the seeming power of error, and faith vested in righteous-
ness triumphs!

Advice To Students

The true consciousness is the true health. One says, [25]
"I find relief from pain in unconscious sleep." I say,
You mistake; through unconsciousness one no more
gains freedom from pain than immunity from evil. When
unconscious of a mistake, one thinks he is not mistaken;
but this false consciousness does not change the fact, or [30]

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its results; suffering and mistakes recur until one is awake [1]
to their cause and character. To know the what, when,
and how of error, destroys error. The error that is seen
aright as error, has received its death-blow; but never
until then. [5]

Let us look through the lens of Christian Science,
not of "self," at the following mistake, which demands
our present attent