the door to
the captive, and enabled man to demonstrate the law of
Life, which St. Paul declares "hath made me free from [20]
the law of sin and death."

The stale saying that Christian Science "is neither
Christian nor science!" is to-day the fossil of wisdom-
less wit, weakness, and superstition. "The fool hath
said in his heart, There is no God." [25]

Take courage, dear reader, for any seeming mysti-
cism surrounding realism is explained in the Scripture,
"There went up a mist from the earth [matter];" and
the mist of materialism will vanish as we approach spirit-
uality, the realm of reality; cleanse our lives in Christ's [30]
righteousness; bathe in the baptism of Spirit, and awake
in His likeness.

CHAPTER III. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

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_What do you consider to be mental malpractice? [1]_

Mental malpractice is a bland denial of Truth,
and is the antipode of Christian Science. To
mentally argue in a manner that can disastrously
affect the happiness of a fellow-being--harm him [5]
morally, physically, or spiritually--breaks the Golden
Rule and subverts the scientific laws of being. This,
therefore, is not the use but the abuse of mental treat-
ment, and is mental malpractice. It is needless to
say that such a subversion of right is not scientific. Its [10]
claim to power is in proportion to the faith in evil, and
consequently to the lack of faith in good. Such false
faith finds no place in, and receives no aid from, the
Principle or the rules of Christian Science; for it denies
the grand verity of this Science, namely, that God, good, [15]
has _all_ power.

This leaves the individual no alternative but to re-
linquish his faith in evil, or to argue against his own
convictions of good and so destroy his power to be or
to do good, because he has no faith in the _omnipotence_ [20]
of God, good. He parts with his understanding of good,
in order to retain his faith in evil and so succeed with his

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wrong argument,--if indeed he desires success in this [1]
broad road to destruction.

_How shall we demean ourselves towards the students_
_of disloyal students? And what about that clergyman's_
_remarks on __"__Christ and Christmas__"__?_ [5]

From this question, I infer that some of my students
seem not to know in what manner they should act towards
the students of false teachers, or such as have strayed
from the rules and divine Principle of Christian Science.
The quer