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Retrospection and Introspection by Mary Baker Eddy
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hindrance opposed to it by material motion, is proven beyond a doubt in the
practice of Mind-healing.

In those days preaching and teaching were substantially one. There was no
church preaching, in the modern sense of the term. Men assembled in the one
temple (at Jerusalem) for sacrificial ceremonies, not for sermons. Into the
synagogues, scattered about in cities and villages, they went for
liturgical worship, and instruction in the Mosaic law. If one worshipper
preached to the others, he did so informally, and because he was bidden to
this privileged duty at that particular moment. It was the custom to pay
this hortatory compliment to a stranger, or to a member who had been away
from the neighborhood; as Jesus was once asked to exhort, when he had been
some time absent from Nazareth but once again entered the synagogue which
he had frequented in childhood.

Jesus' method was to instruct his own students; and he watched and guarded
them unto the end, even according to his promise, "Lo, I am with you
alway!" Nowhere in the four Gospels will Christian Scientists find any
precedent for employing another student to take charge of their students,
or for neglecting their own students, in order to enlarge their sphere of
action.

Above all, trespass not intentionally upon other people's thoughts, by
endeavoring to influence other minds to any action not first made known to
them or sought by them. Corporeal and selfish influence is human, fallible,
and temporary; but incorporeal impulsion is divine, infallible, and
eternal. The student should be most careful not to thrust aside Science,
and shade God's window which lets in light, or seek to stand in God's
stead.

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