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 1	THE FIRST MEMBERS OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
  	           SCIENTIST, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 

 3	    My Beloved Students: — Another year has rolled on,
  	another annual meeting has convened, another space of
  	time has been given us, and has another duty been done
 6	and another victory won for time and eternity? Do you
  	meet in unity, preferring one another, and demonstrating
  	the divine Principle of Christian Science? Have you
 9	improved past hours, and ladened them with records
  	worthy to be borne heavenward? Have you learned
  	that sin is inadmissible, and indicates a small mind? 
12	Do you manifest love for those that hate you and de-
  	spitefully use you? 
  	    The man of integrity is one who makes it his constant
15	rule to follow the road of duty, according as Truth and
  	the voice of his conscience point it out to him. He is not
  	guided merely by affections which may some time give
18	the color of virtue to a loose and unstable character. 
  	    The upright man is guided by a fixed Principle, which
  	destines him to do nothing but what is honorable, and to
21	abhor whatever is base or unworthy; hence we find him
  	ever the same, — at all times the trusty friend, the affec-
  	tionate relative, the conscientious man of business, the
24	pious worker, the public-spirited citizen. 
  	    He assumes no borrowed appearance. He seeks no
  	mask to cover him, for he acts no studied part; but he
27	is indeed wha...t he appears to be, — full of truth, candor,
  	and humanity. In all his pursuits, he knows no path
  	but the fair, open, and direct one, and would much rather
30	fail of success than attain it by reproachable means. He
 
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 Miscellaneous Writings --- Letters: THE FIRST MEMBERS OF THE
    FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

 1	never shows us a smiling countenance while he meditates
  	evil against us in his heart. We shall never find one part
 3	of his character at variance with another. 
  	                             Lovingly yours,
  	                                        MARY BAKER EDDY 
 6	  Sept. 30, 1895 
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