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314 Relieve the patient's mind of the depressing thought that he has transgressed a material law, and must of necessity pay the penalty. Reassure him with the law of Love. God never punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for deeds of kindness, though they expose him to fatigue, cold, heat, contagions. If he incurs the penalty of matter, it is but a law of mortal mind, not an enactment of Wisdom; and man should enter his protest against this supposed law, in order to annul it. Through this action of mind, and its results upon the body, he will prove to himself, by small beginnings, the grand facts of being.

If exposure to a draught of air, while in a state of perspiration, is followed by chills, dry cough, influenza, congestive symptoms in the lungs, or hints of inflammatory rheumatism, your Mind-remedy is safe and sure.

If you are a Christian Scientist, such symptoms will probably not follow from the exposure; but if you believe in laws of matter, and their fatal effects when transgressed, you are not fit to conduct your own case, or to destroy the bad effects of belief. When the fear subsides, and the conviction abides that you have broken no law, neither rheumatism, consumption, nor any other ill, will ever result from exposure to the weather.

This is an established fact in Science, which all the evidence before the senses can never overrule. Sickness, sin, and death must at length quail before the divine rights of Intelligence; and then the power of Mind, over the entire functions and organs of the human system, will be acknowledged.

It is proverbial that Florence Nightingale, and other philanthropists engaged in humane labors, have been