years been
pastor, I gave permission to cite, in the _Christian Science_ [25]
_Quarterly_, from my work Science and Health, passages
giving the spiritual meaning of Bible texts; but this was
a special privilege, and the author's gift.

Christian Science demonstrates that the patient who
pays whatever he is able to pay for being healed, is more [30]
apt to recover than he who withholds a slight equiva-
lent for health. Healing morally and physically are one.

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Then, is compiling and delivering that sermon for which [1]
you pay nothing, and which you deliver without the
author's consent, and receive pay therefor, the _precedent_
for preaching Christian Science,--and are you doing
to the author of the above-named book as you would [5]
have others do unto you?

Those authors and editors of pamphlets and periodi-
cals whose substance is made up of my publications, are
morally responsible for what the law construes as crime.
There are startling instances of the above-named law- [10]
breaking and gospel-opposing system of authorship, which
characterize the writings of a few professed Christian
Scientists. My Christian students who have read copies
of my works in the pulpit require only a word to be wise;
too sincere and morally statuesque are they to be long [15]
led into temptation; but I must not leave persistent
plagiarists without this word of warning in public, since
my private counsel they disregard.

To the question of my true-hearted students, "Is it
right to copy your works and read them for our public [20]
services?" I answer: It is not right to copy my book
and read it publicly _without my consent_. My reasons are
as follows:--

_First:_ This method is an unseen form of injustice
standing in a holy place. [25]

_Second:_ It breaks the Golden Rule,--a divine rule
for human conduct.

_Third:_ All error tends to harden the heart, blind
the eyes, stop the ears of understanding, and inflate
self; counter to the commands of our hillside Priest, to [30]
whom Isaiah alluded thus: "I have trodden the wine-
press alone; and of the people there was none with me."

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Behind the scenes lurks an evil which you can prevent: [1]
it is a purpose to kill the reformation begun and increas-
ing through the instructions of "Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures;" it encourages infringement of my
copyright, and seeks again to "cast lots for his vesture,"--while [5]
the perverter preserv