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Rh The relinquishment of all faith in death, and the fear of its sting, would raise the standard of health and morals far beyond its present elevation, and would enable us to hold the banner of Christianity aloft with unflinching faith in Life eternal. Sin brought death, and death will disappear with sin. Man is immortal; and the body cannot die, because it has no life of its own. The illusions named death, sickness, and sin are all that can be destroyed.

I have healed hopeless disease, and raised the dying to life and health, through the understanding of God as the only Life. It is a sin to believe that aught can overpower omnipotent and eternal Life; and this Life must be brought to light by the understanding that there is no death, as well as by other graces of the Spirit.

Charles Follen has beautifully phased this thought: —

Our faith should lengthen its borders and strengthen its base, by resting on Spirit instead of matter. When mortal mind gives up its belief in death, it will advance more rapidly towards God, Life, and Love. Belief in sickness and death shuts out a true sense of Life and heaven from our experiences, as certainly as a belief in sin. When will mortals wake to this great fact of Science?

“When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law,” — the law of mortal belief, at war with the immortal facts of Life; even the