From St. Albans, Vt., Earnest Inquirer writes to the Teacher, to ask why she stipulates that the pupils in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College should be persons in good health.
In reply to this lady, and many others who ask this question, Mrs. Eddy wishes it said: that her classes are for teaching, not for healing; and that students who enter the school in order to be healed, can not be thoroughly taught. She therefore feels constrained to take under her instruction only those who are perfectly well. A sick person is not in the proper condition for learning Christian Science; and Mrs. Eddy's other work will not allow her to treat students. Moreover, ailing members of the Class would interfere with the rights of other students, who come to learn how they can demonstrate Truth. Chemicalization is likely to take hold of a pupil while going through the lessons, and this is a positive hindrance to the immediate acquisition of spiritual knowledge. The priests, under the Hebrew dispensation, had to be sound in body, and the sacrifices had to be without flaw or blemish. Those who would follow Christ should be presented to him without spot or wrinkle.
