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Rh Instead of blind and calm submission to the incipient or advanced stages of disease, rise in rebellion against them. Banish the notion that you can possibly entertain a single intruding fear that cannot be ruled out by the might of Mind, and thus you can prevent its development on the body. No law of God hinders this result. It is wrong to suffer for aught but sin, and God, or Truth, will destroy all other suffering.

Justice is the moral signification of law. Injustice declares the absence of law.

Because mortal mind is kept active, must it pay the penalty in a softened brain? Who dares to say that Mind can be overworked? Encountering our own limits of mental capacity, we conclude that intellectual labor is carried sufficiently far; but when we remember that Infinite Mind is ever active, and that we cannot wear out or trespass upon spiritual energies, we are able to rest in Truth, refreshed by the utterances of Immortality, opposed to mortality.

Shall our teachers die early because they faithfully perform their tasks? Shall printers and authors have the shortest span of earthly existence, because they occupy the most important posts, and perform the most living functions of society? Shall that man pay the severest penalty who does the most good?

Remembering the facts of eternal existence, — instead of reading disquisitions on the barbarous supposition that death comes in obedience to the law of Life, and that God punishes man for doing good, — we shall not suffer as the result of any labor of love, but grow stronger because of it. It is a law of mortal mind, not matter, that causes all things discordant.