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Questions Answered

From the February 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal

This article was later republished in Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896:  Mis. 64:9-65:16


What can prospective students of the College take for preliminary studies? Do you regard the study of literature and languages as objectionable?

Persons, contemplating a course at the Metaphysical College, can prepare for it through no books except Science and Health, and the Bible. Man-made theories are narrow or extravagant, and are always materialistic. The ethics which guide thought spiritually must benefit every one; for the only philosophy and religion, that afford instruction, are those which deal with facts and resist fables.

Works on Science are profitable, for Science is divine, not human,—spiritual, and not material. Literature and Languages, to a limited extent, are aids to a student of the Bible and of Christian Science.

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