many stood ready to accept the thirty pieces of treasonable silver.
Had my students abided closely by my teaching, not one of them could ever have shamed my system by malpractice, or turned from Christian Science to mesmerism. My object, ever since I entered this held of labor, has been to prevent suffering, never to produce it. That we cannot both produce and prevent the same pain is self-evident.
I have sometimes wondered if the disciples of our Master, the primitive healers, had such ripe experiences with the machinations of sin as arc open at this period, — if the hidden arrows of the wicked were aimed at them as at Christian healers now, and yet they were able to say, “None of these things move me.”
Our Master read mind on a scientific basis, the omnipresence of Mind. Approximating this discernment indicates spiritual growth, and a union with the infinite capacities of the One Mind. This is the only genuine Science of mind-reading. Paul said, “To be spiritually-minded is Life.” We approach God, or Life, in the ratio of our spirituality and fidelity to Truth; and in that ratio we are able to discern the thoughts of the sick and the sinful, that we may heal them. They cannot hide from the eye of Wisdom.
Whoever reaches this point of moral culture cannot injure others, and must do them good. The greater or less ability of a Christian Scientist, to discern thought, depends on his faithfulness. This kind of mind-reading is not clairvoyance; but it is important to our success in healing, and is one of the special characteristics of that success.
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