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Rh method or subterfuge in its demonstration is a departure from Science. Fleeing to drugs, hygiene, manipulation, alcohol, tobacco, hiding from God in any way, or leaning on anything but the divine Mind, to make or keep man well and happy, are so many conspiracies against human health and happiness, and against an honest Metaphysical practice. Hereby you can discern the mental malpractitioners and malteachers of the present day.

Test the Science of Mind-healing on society, and you will find that the views here set forth, as to the unreality of sin, sickness, and death, bring forth better fruits of health, righteousness, and Life, than a belief in their reality has ever done. A demonstration of the unreality of evil destroys evil.

Why do you say God and His idea are the only realities, and then insist on the need of healing sickness and sin? Because Science heals sin as it heals sickness, by establishing the recognition that God is all, and there is none beside Him, that all is good, and there is in reality no evil, neither sickness nor sin. You attack the sinner’s belief in the reality of sin, which makes him a sinner, in order to destroy this belief and save him from sin; and you attack the belief of the sick in the reality of sickness, in order to heal them. When you deny the existence of sin, you begin to sap it; for this denunciation must precede its destruction. God is good, hence goodness is the Life of man. Its opposite, nothing, named evil, is a conspiracy against man’s Life and goodness. Do you not feel bound to expose this conspiracy. and so to save man from it? Whosoever covers iniquity becomes accessory to it. Sin, as a claim, is more dangerous than sickness, more subtle, more difficult to heal.

Saint Augustine once said, “The Devil is but the ape of God.” Sin is less Scientific than sickness; but recollect that it encourages sin to say “There is no sin,” and leave the subject there. Since there is in belief