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HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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It goes without saying that such a one was never called to Pleasant View for penance or reformation; and I call none others, unless I mistake their calling. No mesmerist, nor disloyal Christian Scientist is fit to come hither, I have no use for such, and there cannot be found at Pleasant View one of this sort. "For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee." (Deuteronomy, 18.)

It is true that loyal Christian Scientists called to the home of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, can acquire in one year the Science that otherwise might cost them a half century. But this should not be the incentive for going thither. Better far that Christian Scientists go to help their helper, and thus lose all selfishness as she has lost it, and thereby help themselves and the whole world, as she has done according to this saying of Christ Jesus: "And whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple."