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BLIND LEADERS 

  	    What figure is less favorable than a wolf in sheep's
21	clothing? The braying donkey whose ears stick out is
  	less troublesome. What manner of man is it that has
  	discovered an improvement on Christian Science, a "met-
24	aphysical healing" by which error destroys error, and
  	would gather all sorts into a "national convention" by
  	the sophistry that such is the true fold for Christian heal-
27	ers, since the good shepherd cares for all? 
  	    Yes; the good Shepherd does care for all, and His
  	first care is to separate the sheep from the goats; and

  Miscellaneous Writings --- Blind Leaders                                   
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 1	this is among the first lessons on healing taught by our
  	great Master. 
 3	    If, as the gentleman aforesaid states, large flocks of
  	metaphysicians are wandering about without a leader,
  	what has opened his eyes to see the need of taking them
 6	out of the care of the great Shepherd, and behold the
  	remedy, to help them by his own leadership? Is it that
  	he can guide Christian Scientists better than they, through
 9	the guidance of our common Father, can guide them-
  	selves? or is it that they are incapable of helping them-
  	selves thus? 
12	    I as their teacher can say, They know far more of
  	Christian Science than he who deprecates their condition
  	appears to, and my heart pleads for them to possess
15	more and more of Truth and Love; but mixing all gr...ades
  	of persons is not productive of the better sort, although
  	he who has self-interest in this mixing is apt to pro-
18	pose it. 
  	    Whoever desires to say, "good right, and good wrong,"
  	has no truth to defend. It is a wise saying that "men
21	are known by their enemies." To sympathize in any
  	degree with error, is not to rectify it; but error always
  	strives to unite, in a definition of purpose, with Truth,
24	to give it buoyancy. What is under the mask, but error
  	in borrowed plumes? 
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