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Rh able to undergo, without sinking, fatigues and exposures that ordinary people could not have endured. The explanation lies in the support they derive from divine law, rising above the human. The spiritual demand, quelling the material, supplies energy and endurance that surpasses all other aids, and forestalls the penalty that our beliefs would attach to our best deeds. Let us remember that the eternal law of right exempts man from all penalties but those due to wrong-doing, though it can never annul the law that makes sin its own executioner.

If there is any mystery in Christian healing, it is the mystery that godliness always presents to the ungodly, the mystery arising from ignorance of the laws of eternal and unerring Mind. The chemical changes that go on in mortal mind serve to reconstruct the body.

We must have faith in all the sayings of our Master, though they are not included in the teachings of the schools, and not understood generally by our instructors in morality.

Jesus said (John viii. 52), “If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.” That statement is not confined to spiritual Life, but includes both the spiritual and physical. Mortal mind must part with error until it puts off “the old man, with his deeds,” and is clothed with immortality.

The body improves under the same Truth that improves the mind. If we are Christians on all moral questions, but are in darkness as to the physical safety which Christianity includes, we shall be more liable to sickness than is the indifferent sinner, because we are more alive to the law, and to the fear of doing wrong.