observed in the professional intercourse of Christian Science healers with
one another.

_Second_: Another command of the Christ, his prime command, was that his
followers should "raise the dead." He lifted his own body from the
sepulchre. In him, Truth called the physical man from the tomb to health,
and the so-called dead forthwith emerged into a higher manifestation of
Life.

The spiritual significance of this command, "Raise the dead," most concerns
mankind. It implies such an elevation of the understanding as will enable
thought to apprehend the living beauty of Love, its practicality, its
divine energies, its health-giving and life-bestowing qualities,--yea, its
power to demonstrate immortality. This end Jesus achieved, both by example
and precept.

_Third_: This leads inevitably to a consideration of another part of
Christian Science work,--a part which concerns us intimately,--preaching
the gospel.

This evangelistic duty should not be so warped as to signify that we must
or may go, uninvited, to work in other vineyards than our own. One would,
or should, blush to enter unasked another's pulpit, and preach without the
consent of the stated occupant of that pulpit. The Lord's command means
this, that we should adopt the spirit of the Saviour's ministry, and abide
in such a spiritual attitude as will draw men unto us. Itinerancy should
not be allowed to clip the wings of divine Science. Mind demonstrates
omnipresence and omnipotence, but Mind revolves on a spiritual axis, and
its power is displayed and its presence felt in eternal stillness and
immovable Love. The divine potency of this spiritual mode of Mind, and the