234:9 We should become more familiar with good than with evil, and guard against false beliefs as watchfully as we bar our doors against the approach of thieves 234:12 and murderers. We should love our enemies and help them on the basis of the Golden Rule; but avoid casting pearls before those who trample 234:15 them under foot, thereby robbing both themselves and others. Cleansing the mind If mortals would keep proper ward over mortal mind, 234:18 the brood of evils which infest it would be cleared out. We must begin with this so-called mind and empty it of sin and sickness, or sin and sick- 234:21 ness will never cease. The present codes of human systems disappoint the weary searcher after a divine theology, adequate to the right education of human 234:24 thought. Sin and disease must be thought before they can be manifested. You must control evil thoughts in the first 234:27 instance, or they will control you in the second. Jesus declared that to look with desire on forbidden objects was to break a moral precept. He laid great stress on the 234:30 action of the human mind, unseen to the senses. Evil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no more harm than one's belief permits. Evil thoughts, lusts, and 235:1 malicious purposes cannot go forth, like wandering pollen, from one human mind to another, finding unsuspected 235:3 lodgment, if virtue and truth build a strong defence. Better suffer a doctor infected with smallpox to attend you than to be treated mentally by one who does not obey 235:6 the requirements of divine Science. Teachers' functions The teachers of schools and the readers in churches should be selected with as direct reference to their 235:9 morals as to their learning or their correct reading. Nurseries of character should be strongly garrisoned with virtue. School-examinations are 235:12 one-sided; it is not so much academic education, as a moral and spiritual culture, which lifts one higher. The pure and uplifting thoughts of the teacher, constantly 235:15 imparted to pupils, will reach higher than the heavens of astronomy; while the debased and unscrupulous mind, though adorned with gems of scholarly attainment, will 235:18 degrade the characters it should inform and elevate. Physicians' privilege