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98 a dyspeptic, while vegetarianism, hygiene, and physiology had made her one, contrary to His commands.

The cure, alike for dyspepsia and sin, is to consult matter less and God more, and to eat what is set before you, “asking no questions for conscience' sake.”

The belief that fasting or feasting makes man better morally, or physically, is one of the fruits of the “tree of knowledge,” of which God said, “Eat not of them, lest ye die.” Mortal mind forms all conditions of the mortal body, and controls the stomach, bones, lungs, heart, and blood, as directly as the volition of will moves the hand.

We hear it said: “I exercise daily in the open air. I take cold baths, — perhaps to overcome a predisposition to take cold, — and yet I have continual colds, catarrh, and cough.” Such admissions ought to open people's eyes to the inefficacy of hygiene, and induce them to look in other directions for cause and cure.

Some invalids are unwilling to know the facts of their case, or hear about the fallacy of matter and its supposed laws. They would devote themselves a little longer to their material gods, clinging to their belief of life and intelligence in matter, and expecting this error to do for them more than they are willing to admit the only living and true God can do. Impatient with your explanation, unwilling to investigate the Science of Mind that would rid them of their complaints, they hug false beliefs and their delusive consequences.

Does God send sickness, giving the mother her child for the brief space of a few years, and then taking it away by death? Is God creating anew what He has already created? The Scriptures are definite on this point — that His work was finished and was good.