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Rh mind, being the remote and exciting cause of all suffering, the cause must be renovated through Science, or sense will get the victory.

Unless every ill is met aright, and fairly overcome by Truth, it is never conquered. If God destroys not sin, sickness, and death, they are not destroyed to mortal mind, but are immortal. What God cannot do, man need not attempt. If God heals not the sick, it is because He cannot or will not. In either case lesser attempts would be hopeless, for no power equals the Infinite.

Upon this stage of existence goes on the dance of belief. Mortal thoughts chase each other like snowflakes drifting to the ground. Science has revealed that Life is not at the mercy of death, nor happiness the sport of circumstance. Error becomes more imperative as it hastens towards self-destruction. This action of mortal mind on the body is illustrated when an abscess grows more painful before it bursts and ends with suppuration, or a fever becomes more severe before it abates.

The fright is so great, at certain stages of mortal belief, as to destroy that belief. In the illusion of death mortals wake to the knowledge of two facts: that they are not dead; and that they have but passed the portals of a new belief that reaches this discovery. Truth works out the nothingness of error in just these ways. Sickness, as well as sin, is a suicide, — an error that culminates in self-destruction.

Jesus loved little children because of their freedom from wrong and their receptiveness of right. While age is halting between two opinions, or battling with a belief, youth makes easy and rapid strides toward Truth.