2.
The teaching should be more in the line of showing the student
how to overcome the evil, than by cramming with the letter, smoothing over, making things pleasant and taking the money. There must
always be the cross before the crown; the cross cannot be smoothed
over. It is the plucking out of the eye and cutting off the hand. A
student of S. & H., who has the spirit, when he goes to a patient, does
not know the letter to gabble over, and is better off than to be filled
with the letter and not the spirit. Mary Baker Eddy (Oakes Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.11)