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healing and comforting to the people. Some of the best known teachers were graduates of, and then associates with her in the school: Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, Annie Rix-Militz, George Edwin and Mary Lamoreaux Burnell.
Mrs. Hopkins was way ahead of the times in the freedom offered students in a group activity which the faculty of the seminary became. Her innate teaching quality shows in the leadership her teaching quickened in students who established independent movements now ministering to mankind.
Among the students in a class in New York was H. Emilie Cady, whose "Lessons in Truth," published by the Unity School of Christianity, finds a vital place in healing movements of today.
In introducing the course in "Scientific Christian Mental Practice," Mrs. Hopkins refers to it as "the method of Jesus Christ put in twelve settings," and states that "the absolute meanings of the words of Jesus Christ would be taken." She further states:
"We are reasoning out the laws of the action of Mind as it conquers the universe with righteousness when we step along in ideas with Jesus ... that action of Mind whereby all mankind would let the reign of God come on earth.
"As we understand Jesus Christ, we have His Mind. When we have His Mind wholly, we have an understanding of the apostle's injunction, let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.'
"The Science pursued has four accomplishments to work out. Jesus Christ said it would give you power to preach the gospel, heal the sick, cast out bad tempers, and raise the dead.
"It is evident that the power of God is exhibited only over the highway of a true premise with its irresistible sequences.
"Take now a right premise and reason on with it until the light of understanding breaks over and through you.
"In our time we find some people healing by one means and some by another. Whenever they begin to acknowledge that God is the health of the people you will find them using less and less material helps toward healing each other. Yet you must be sure that whatever health is brought to mankind it all comes from God.
"There is a secret of healing. The method of it is nothing. . . . The practice of healing by the word lets us most quickly into the secret of healing.
