ing Truth, to protect themselves therefrom, is commit- [1] ting an offense against God and humanity. With Science and Health for their textbook, I am astounded at the apathy of some students on the subject of sin and mental malpractice, and their culpable ignorance of the work- [5] ing of these—and even the teacher’s own deficiency in this department. I can account for this state of mind in the teacher only as the result of sin; otherwise, his own guilt as a mental malpractitioner, and fear of being found out. [10] The helpless ignorance of the community on this sub- ject is pitiable, and plain to be seen. May God enable my students to take up the cross as I have done, and meet the pressing need of a proper preparation of heart to prac- tise, teach, and live Christian Science! Your means of [15] protection and defense from sin are, constant watchful- ness and prayer that you enter not into temptation and are delivered from every claim of evil, till you intelligently know and demonstrate, in Science, that evil has neither prestige, power, nor existence, since God, good, is All- [20] in-all. The increasing necessity for relying on God to de- fend us against the subtler forms of evil, turns us more unreservedly to Him for help, and thus becomes a means of grace. If one lives rightly, every effort to hurt one [25] will only help that one; for God will give the ability to overcome whatever tends to impede progress. Know this: that you cannot overcome the baneful effects of sin on yourself, if you in any way indulge in sin; for, sooner or later, you will fall the victim of your own as [30] well as of others’ sins. Using mental power in the right direction only, doing to others as you would have them [Page 116.] do to you, will overcome evil with good, and destroy [1] your own sensitiveness to the power of evil. The God of all grace be with you, and save you from “spiritual wickedness in high places.” PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N. H., [5] June 3, 1895 Address Before The Christian Scientist Association Of The Massachusetts Metaphysical College, In 1893 SUBJECT: _Obedience_ [10] _My Beloved Students_:—This question, ever nearest to my heart, is to-day uppermost: Are we filling the measures of life’s music aright, emphasizing its grand strains, swelling the harmony of being with tones whence come glad echoes? As _crescendo_ and _diminuendo_ accent [15] music, so the varied strains of human chords express life’s loss or gain,—loss of the pleasures and pains and pride of life: gain of its sweet concord, the courage of honest convictions, and final obedience to spiritual law. The ultimate of scientific research and attainment in [20] divine Science is not an argument: it is not merely say- ing, but doing, the Word—demonstrating Truth—even as the fruits of watchfulness, prayer, struggles, tears, and triumph.