service; provided, they each and all destroyed the copies

at once after said service. When I should so elect and

give suitable notice, they were to desist from further copy-

ing of my writings as aforesaid.

This injunction did not curtail the benefit which the [25]

student derived from making his copy, nor detract from

the good that his hearers received from his reading thereof;

but it was intended to forestall the possible evil of putting

the divine teachings contained in “Science and Health

with Key to the Scriptures” into human hands, to sub- [30]