student desiring growth in the knowledge of Truth, can and will obtain it
by taking up his cross and following Truth. If he does this not, and
another one undertakes to carry his burden and do his work, the duty will
_not be accomplished_. No one can save himself without God's help, and God
will help each man who performs his own part. After this manner and in no
other way is every man cared for and blessed. To the unwise helper our
Master said, "Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead."

The poet's line, "Order is heaven's first law," is so eternally true, so
axiomatic, that it has become a truism; and its wisdom is as obvious in
religion and scholarship as in astronomy or mathematics.

Experience has taught me that the rules of Christian Science can be far
more thoroughly and readily acquired by regularly settled and systematic
workers, than by unsettled and spasmodic efforts. Genuine Christian
Scientists are, or should be, the most systematic and law-abiding people on
earth, because their religion demands implicit adherence to fixed rules, in
the orderly demonstration thereof. Let some of these rules be here stated.

_First_: Christian Scientists are to "heal the sick" as the Master
commanded.

In so doing they must follow the divine order as prescribed by
Jesus,--never, in any way, to trespass upon the rights of their neighbors,
but to obey the celestial injunction, "Whatsoever ye would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them."

In this orderly, scientific dispensation healers become a law unto
themselves. They feel their own burdens less, and can therefore bear the
weight of others' burdens, since it is only through the lens of their
unselfishness that the sunshine of Truth beams with such efficacy as to
dissolve error.

It is already understood that Christian Scientists will not receive a
patient who is under the care of a regular physician, until he has done
with the case and different aid is sought. The same courtesy should be
observed in the professional intercourse of Christian Science healers with
one another.

_Second_: Another command of the Christ, his prime command, was that his
followers should "raise the dead." He lifted his own body from the
sepulchre. In him, Truth called the physical man from the tomb to health,
and the so-called dead forthwith emerged into a higher manifestation of
Life.

The spiritual significance of this command, "Raise the dead," most concerns
mankind. It im