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Rh progress, attended by love and peace, instead of envy and pride.

We should unclasp our beliefs gently, become more familiar with health than sickness, and never admit a thought of discord. We should dismiss those unpleasant guests — sin, sickness, and death — from mortal mind, in order to guard the body from them as watchfully as we bar our doors against the approach of thieves and murderers.

If proper ward were kept over the human mind, the lazar-house, the dismal cell, and the slaughter-house of infamy would be emptied. We must begin with mortal mind, and empty that of crime, or crime will never cease. Criminal codes are inadequate to educate the moral thought.

A mother is the strongest educator, either for or against crime. Her thoughts form the embryo of another mortal mind, and make it perchance after a model unknown to herself, “according to the pattern shown in the mount;” or perhaps diviner influences raise it higher. Hence the importance of Christian Science, wherefrom we learn the One Mind, the availability of good, and the remedy for every woe.

The world would collapse without the Intelligence that holds the winds in His grasp. Neither philosophy nor scepticism can efface the Science that reveals Mind through its wondrous works. The immortal sense of His power enhances it. Nearness, not distance, lends enchantment to this view.

That instinct is better than misguided reason, even inanimate nature declares. The violet lifts her blue eye to greet the early spring. The leaves clap their hands