The assertion that I have said hard things about my loyal students in Chicago, New York, or any other place, is utterly false and groundless. I speak of them as I feel, and I can not find it in my heart not to love them. They are essentially dear to me, who are toiling and achieving success, in unison with my own endeavors and prayers. If I correct mistakes which may be made in teaching or lecturing on Christian Science, this is in accordance with my students' desires, and thus we mutually aid each other, and obey the Golden Rule.
The spirit of lies is abroad. Because Truth has spoken aloud, error, running to and fro in the earth, is screaming, to make herself heard above Truth's voice. The audible and inaudible wail of evil never harms Scientists, steadfast in their consciousness of the nothingness of wrong and the supremacy of right.
Our worst enemies are the best friends to our growth. Charity students, for whom I have sacrificed the most time,—those whose chief aim is to injure me,—have caused me to exercise most patience. When they report me as "hating those whom I do not love," let them remember that there never was a time when I saw an opportunity to really help them and failed to improve it; and this, too, when I knew they were secretly striving to injure me.
