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Rh say, “I am malice, lust, appetite, envy, hate;” and what renders both cures difficult is, that the human mind is the sinner, disinclined to correct his own faults, and believing that the body can be sick independent of this mind, and that the Divine Mind has no jurisdiction over it.

Why pray for the recovery of the sick, if you are without faith in God's willingness and ability to heal? Believing in that, why substitute drugs for Almighty power, or employ a doctor to go contrary to His will?

The Scripture says, “In Him we live, move, and have our being.” What then is this implied power, independent of God, that causes disease and cures it, — what is it but an error of belief, and a law of mortal mind, wrong in every sense, embracing all sin, sickness, and death. It is the very antipodes of Immortal Mind and spiritual law. It is unlike the character of God, good, to make man sick, and then leave him to heal himself, — for Spirit to produce disease, and leave the remedy with matter.

God can no more produce sickness than good can end in evil, or health occasion disease. Good never made sin for an experiment, or caused a result by first constituting that which produced it, and then punishing the sin it made possible. Evil is not supreme, good is not helpless; nor is a law of matter primary, and a law of Spirit secondary.

Body is not first, and Soul last, nor is evil mightier than good. The Science of Being repudiates self-evident impossibilities, or the amalgamation of Truth and error in cause or effect. It separates the tares and wheat in time of harvest.