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Rh from their bodies to higher objects. Teach them that their bodies are nourished more by Truth than by food, and will find rest in God more than in sleep.

By the truthful arguments you employ, and especially by the spirit of Truth and Love you manifest, you will heal the sick. You may call the disease by name when you address it mentally; but by naming it audibly, you are liable to impress it upon the mind. The silence of Science is eloquent and powerful to unclasp the hand of disease, and reduce it to nothingness.

Include moral as well as physical belief in your efforts to destroy error. Cast out all manner of evil. “Preach the gospel to all nations.” Speak the truth to every form of error. Tumors, ulcers, tubercles, inflammation, pain, deformed backs, are all dream-shadows, dark images of mortal thought that will flee before the light.

If from any cause your patient suffers a relapse, meet the cause mentally and courageously, knowing that there can be no reaction in Truth. If error reacts, this reaction arises from either fear or sin. Disease has no intelligence to move itself about, or to change itself from one form to another.

Mind produces all action. If the action proceeds from Truth, from immortal Mind, there is harmony; but mortal mind is liable to any phase of belief. A relapse may come from other minds, which affect your patient; it may come from yourself, because you are not bringing out in your life the Divine Principle of metaphysics, but are departing from its rules. To succeed in healing you must conquer your own beliefs and fears, as well as those