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320 My experience has proven to me the fallacy of the medical art, — that its theory is pernicious, and that the way out of it is the only commendable part of it.

Like Jesus, we should speak to disease as one having authority over it, leaving Soul to master the false evidences of the senses, and assert its claims over mortality and sickness. The same Principle cures both sin and sickness. When Christianity overcomes Materia medica, and replaces faith in drugs with faith in God, sickness will disappear.

Sin will submit to Science when, in place of creeds and professions, the Divine Principle of Being is demonstrated. Life is the law of Soul, and Soul is never without its representative. Man's individuality can no more die than Soul, for both are immortal. If we believe in death now, we must disbelieve it the next moment; and this disbelief must continue until we learn that Truth cannot die, and that there is no Truth to death. If it be a fact that man lives, this truth can never change to its opposite, that he dies. Explain to the sick the power that illusion exercises over their bodies. Give them divine and wholesome understanding, wherewith to fight against their fears, and so efface the images of disease from mortal mind.

The Scriptures plainly declare the baneful influence of mortal mind on the body. Even our Master felt it. In certain localities he did not many mighty works, “because of their unbelief.”

The contest for the recovery of the sick goes on between minds, not between bodies. The victory will be on the doctor's side, only as he subdues the beliefs in disease, through whatever method he may adopt, — whether it be