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Rh Omnipotent and Infinite Mind made all and comprehends all. This Mind is not always making mistakes, and subsequently correcting them. God is not causing the mother to weep over the loss of her child, and giving the little one no space for experience.

When will the error of Life in matter — and of sin, sickness, and death as creations of God — be unmasked? When will it be understood that matter has no intelligence, life, or sensation, and that the opposite belief is the prolific source of all suffering? God created all through Mind, and made all perfect and eternal. Where then is the necessity for recreation or procreation?

Is there any birth or death for man who is the perfect image and likeness of Spirit? Instead of God's sending sickness or death He destroys them, and brings to light immortality.

Christianity will at length demonstrate that great fact, as once it did in Jesus, by healing the sick and triumphing over death. He never taught or illustrated (by his method of healing) that drugs, food, air, and exercise either make a man healthy, or can destroy his life. He placed the condition of man's harmony in Mind, not in matter, and never tried to make of none effect the sentence of God that sealed His condemnation of sin, sickness, and death.

Is it not the professional reputation and emolument, rather than the dignity of God's laws, that many leaders regard? Do not inferior motives induce their infuriated attack on all who reiterate Christ's teachings, in support of his example of healing? The Bible teaches transformation of the body by the renewal of Spirit. Take away the spiritual signification