Why? Because the
glad surprise of suddenly regained health is a shock to 6
the mind; and this holds and satisfies the thought with
exuberant joy.
This renders the mind less inquisitive, plastic, and tract- 9
able; and deep systematic thinking is impracticable until
this impulse subsides.
This was the principal reason for advising diseased 12
people not to enter a class. Few were taken besides inva-
lids for students, until there were enough practitioners to
fill in the best possible manner the department of healing. 15
Teaching and healing should have separate departments,
and these should be fortified on all sides with suitable and
thorough guardianship and grace. 18
Only a very limited number of students can advanta-
geously enter a class, grapple with this subject, and well
assimilate what has been taught them. It is impossible 21
to teach thorough Christian Science to promiscuous and
large assemblies, or to persons who cannot be addressed
individually, so that the mind of the pupil may be dissected 24
more critically than the body of a subject laid bare for
anatomical examination. Public lectures cannot be such
lessons in Christian Science as are required to empty and 27
to fill anew the individual mind.
If publicity and material control are the motives for 1
teaching, then public lectures can take the place of private
lessons; but the former can never give a thorough knowledge 3
of Christian Science, and a Christian Scientist will never
undertake to fit students for practice by such means.
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