my students to take up the cross as I have done, and meet

the pressing need of a proper preparation of heart to prac-

tise, teach, and live Christian Science! Your means of [15]

protection and defense from sin are, constant watchful-

ness and prayer that you enter not into temptation and

are delivered from every claim of evil, till you intelligently

know and demonstrate, in Science, that evil has neither

prestige, power, nor existence, since God, good, is All- [20]

in-all.

The increasing necessity for relying on God to de-