The true Christian Scientist's love for others prohibits him from binding them to faults or from prophesying that faults will bring about an illness or some other wrong condition. We are to lift the burdens of sinful and discordant beliefs from men's shoulders rather than build them up in thought, either in our own or another's. Scriptural instruction on this point is clear, "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?" ^{Isa. 58:6;}

Practicing Christian Science means giving the lie to evil in every form and upholding what is spiritually true of man. It is scientific to recognize that the inevitable spiritual education of thought, under the all-embracing regimen of Christ, Truth, will replace the hideous beliefs that bind human beings to trouble.

Mrs. Eddy writes: "Lurking error, lust, envy, revenge, malice, or hate will perpetuate or even create the belief in disease. Errors of all sorts tend in this direction. Your true course is to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God, Life, Truth, and Love, remembering that God and His ideas alone are real and harmonious." ^{Science and Health, p. 419;}

It is encouraging to know that divine Love is having its way in each individual consciousness. Whether the process is slow or fast in our judgment, we have our heavenly Father's assurance that the eternal order of divine Science is fixing each individual's course Spiritward. If we are "to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God," we must see that general and individual belief either in sin or sickness is erroneous and powerless. We should not attribute to wrong thinking power to create a real effect.

We have yet to attain the full scope of promise and fulfillment that absolute Godlike thinking bestows. But we have as examples Christ Jesus and his follower, Mrs. Eddy. They were the most generous of thinkers. They, unlike the scribes and Pharisees, did not "bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders." ^{Matt. 23:4;} Theirs was an ever-freeing method of mental practice.

Jesus and Mrs. Eddy saw errors of all types—fear, ignorance, sin—as phases of the false belief in a carnal mind. They saw that these could have no place in the true consciousness of the individuals they were assisting through Christian metaphysics. That is why errors of mind and body melted away in their presence rather than becoming something bigger and bigger to cope with. True Christian Science practice frees the individual to make his own way with God always in line with divine Principle.

One day in a public laundromat I witnessed a depressing scene involving a mother and her children. The woman manifested coarseness in every word to her children, and she repeatedly struck one little son. I felt a strong desire to call the police. Furthermore I found myself thinking: "How can such a person go on living?" Then I woke up: "Why, I am a Christian Scientist! What am I doing, letting in such thoughts as these?"

I looked away, and then walked to a large window where I could see the out-of-doors. I prayed earnestly to see that animal magnetism could not make me believe in cause or effect apart from good. I knew I could clear my own thought and recognize man's lovable, spiritual being, for it is the likeness of God. I knew that the Christ, Truth, was present and active in all consciousness, embracing all. After a good period of such thinking, I went back to the machines I was using. Then I noticed that the mother was speaking with courtesy and kindness to her children. This continued for the remaining hour I was there. Another time at the same laundromat I saw this family again. Harmony prevailed among them. I thanked God for this proof of His power.

As for the specific help we may be called upon to give in Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy mercifully guides us in these words: "Animal magnetism, hypnotism, etc., are disarmed by the practitioner who excludes from his own consciousness, and that of his patients, all sense of the realism of any other cause or effect save that which cometh from God." ^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 364.}

We always need to occupy ourselves wholesomely with the truth that God, good, is the only cause and that evil is therefore neither cause nor effect in anyone's experience. Thus we learn to go all the way with Christ, Truth, in our thinking. We learn not to speculate negatively or destructively. We learn the way of freeing, not binding.