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108 sick. This is the salvation that cometh through the Divine Principle demonstrated by Jesus.

The sculptor turns from the marble to his model, to perfect his conceptions. We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiselling our thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have we not accepted the material model? and are we not reproducing it, aided in our work by vicious sculptors of hideous forms? Do we not hear, from all mankind, of the imperfect model? Is the world not holding it before our gaze continually? The result is, that we follow those lower patterns, limit our life-work, and adopt, into our own experience, the angular outline and deformity of mortal models.

To remedy this, we must first turn our gaze in the right direction, and then walk there. We must form perfect models in thought, and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives. Let harmony, health, unselfishness, goodness, mercy, and justice form the mind-pictures, and sin, sickness, and death will diminish until they finally disappear.

Does Wisdom make blunders to be afterwards rectified by man? Does a law of God produce sickness, and man put that law under his feet by healing that sickness? To my understanding, the sick are never really healed by drugs, hygiene, or any material method. These merely evade the question. They are soothing syrups to put children to sleep, satisfy mortal belief, and lull its fears.

We think we are healed when a disease disappears, though it is liable to reappear; but we are never thoroughly healed until this liability is removed. Mortal