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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.

  	    In what way is a Christian Scientist an instrument by
  	which God reaches others to heal them, and what most
27	obstructs the way?  

  	    A Christian, or a Christian Scientist, assumes no more
  	when claiming to work with God in healing the sick,
30	than in converting the sinner. Divine help is as neces-

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 1	sary in the one case as in the other. The scientific Prin-
  	ciple of healing demands such cooperation; but this
 3	unison and its power would be arrested if one were to
  	mix material methods with the spiritual, — were to min-
  	gle hygienic rules, drugs, and prayers in the same pro-
 6	cess, — and thus serve "other gods." Truth is as
  	effectual in destroying sickness as in the destruction
  	of sin. 
 9	    It is often asked, "If Christian Science is the same
  	method of healing that Jesus and the apostles used,
  	why do not its students perform as instantaneous cures
12	as did those in the first century of the Christian era?" 
  	    In some instances the students of Christian Science
  	equal the ancient prophets as healers. All true healing
15	is governed by, and demonstrated on, the same Princi-
  	ple as theirs; namely, the action of the divine Spirit,
  	through the power of Truth to destroy error, discord
18	of whatever sort. The reason that the same results fol-
  	low not in every case, is that the student does not in
  	every case possess sufficien...tly the Christ-spirit and its
21	power to cast out the disease. The Founder of Chris-
  	tian Science teaches her students that they must possess
  	the spirit of Truth and Love, must gain the power
24	over sin in themselves, or they cannot be instantaneous
  	healers. 
  	    In this Christian warfare the student or practitioner
27	has to master those elements of evil too common to other
  	minds. If it is hate that is holding the purpose to kill
  	his patient by mental means, it requires more divine
30	understanding to conquer this sin than to nullify either
  	the disease itself or the ignorance by which one unin-
  	tentionally harms himself or another. An element of
 
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 1	brute-force that only the cruel and evil can send forth, is
  	given vent in the diabolical practice of one who, having
 3	learned the power of liberated thought to do good, per-
  	verts it, and uses it to accomplish an evil purpose. This
  	mental malpractice would disgrace Mind-healing, were it
 6	not that God overrules it, and causes "the wrath of man"
  	to praise Him. It deprives those who practise it of the
  	power to heal, and destroys their own possibility of
 9	progressing. 
  	    The honest student of Christian Science is purged
  	through Christ, Truth, and thus is ready for victory in
12	the ennobling strife. The good fight must be fought by
  	those who keep the faith and finish their course. Mental
  	purgation must go on:  it promotes spiritual growth,
15	scales the mountain of human endeavor, and gains the
  	summit in Science that otherwise could not be reached,
  	 — where the struggle with sin is forever done. 
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