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18 Should we implore only a personal God to heal the sick, or should we understand the Divine Principle that heals? If we rise no higher than blind faith, the Science of Healing is not attained, and Soul-existence, in the place of sense-existence, is not comprehended. We apprehend Life in Science, only as we correct personal sense. Our relative admission of the claims of good or evil determines the harmony of our existence, — our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

We cannot serve two masters, or reach Divine Science through material sense. The Source of all health and perfection is not matched by drugs and hygiene. If man is constituted both good and evil, he will end in evil. An error in the premises must appear in the conclusion. To avail yourself of the power of Spirit, you must depend upon no human reliance.

Christian Science understood would disabuse the human mind of the thousand and one material beliefs that war against spiritual Truth. You cannot add to the contents of a vessel already full. Laboring long to shake one's faith in matter, and convey a crumb of faith in God, — an inkling of the possibilities of Spirit to make the body harmonious, — I have remembered often our Master's love for little children, and understood how truly such as they belong to the heavenly kingdom.

You admit that Mind influences the body somewhat, but conclude that stomach, blood, nerves, bones, hold the preponderance of power. In accordance with this belief, you continue in the old routine. You lean on the inert and unintelligent, never discerning how this deprives you of the available superiority of Mind. The body is not controlled scientifically by a negative mind.