The student who heals by teaching and teaches by healing, will graduate under divine honors, which are [5] the only appropriate seals for Christian Science. State honors perish, and their gain is loss to the Christian Scientist. They include for him at present naught but tardy justice, hounded footsteps, false laurels. God alone is his help, his shield and great reward. He that [10] seeketh aught besides God, loseth in Life, Truth, and Love. All men shall be satisfied when they “awake in His likeness,” and they never should be until then. Hu- man pride is human weakness. Self-knowledge, humility, and love are divine strength. Christ’s vestures are put [15] on only when mortals are “washed in the blood of the Lamb;” we must walk in the way which Jesus marked out, if we would reach the heaven-crowned summit of Christian Science. Be it understood that I do not require Christian Sci- [20] entists to stop teaching, to dissolve their organizations, or to desist from organizing churches and associations. The Massachusetts Metaphysical College, the first and only College for teaching Christian Science Mind- healing, after accomplishing the greatest work of the [25] ages, and at the pinnacle of prosperity, is closed. Let Scientists who have grown to self-sacrifice do their present work, awaiting, with staff in hand, God’s commands. When students have fulfilled all the good ends of [30] organization, and are convinced that by leaving the material forms thereof a higher spiritual unity is won, [Page 359.] then is the time to follow the example of the _Alma Mater_. [1] Material organization is requisite in the beginning; but when it has done its work, the purely Christly method of teaching and preaching must be adopted. On the same principle, you continue the mental argument in the prac- [5] tice of Christian healing until you can cure without it instantaneously, and through Spirit alone. St. Paul says: “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For [10] now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.” Growth is restricted by forcing humanity out of the proper channels for development, or by holding it in fetters. For Jesus to walk the water was scientific, insomuch [15] as he was able to do this; but it is neither wisdom nor Science for poor humanity to step upon the Atlantic until we can walk on the water. Peter’s impetuosity was rebuked. He had to learn from experience; so have we. The methods of our [20] Master were in advance of the period in which he per- sonally appeared; but his example was right, and is available at the right time. The _way_ is absolute divine Science: walk ye in it; but remember that Science is demonstrated by degrees, and our demonstration rises [25] only as we rise in the scale of being. Science And Philosophy