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322 Sin and sickness are both healed on the same Principle. There is but one God, one Principle, equal to every necessity and emergency, offering full salvation from sin, sickness, and death.

“Agree to disagree” with approaching symptoms of chronic or acute disease, whether cancer, consumption, or small-pox. Meet the incipient stage of disease with such powerful eloquence as a congressman would employ, to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Rise, in the conscious strength of Truth, to overthrow the plea of matter, or mortal mind, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. Blot out the images of mortal thought, its beliefs, sickness, and sin. Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, it shall say, “Well done!”

Any supposed information, coming from the body or inert matter, as if they were intelligent, is an illusion of mortal mind, — one of its dreams. Realize that the evidence of the senses is not to be accepted in the case of sickness, any more than it is in the case of sin.

The Apostle John testified to the divine basis of Christian Science, when the boiling oil failed to destroy his body. Idolaters, believing in more than one Mind, had “gods many,” and thought they could kill the body with matter, independently of Mind.

No man is healed in sin, or by it, any more than he is morally saved in or by sin. To be every whit whole, he must be better spiritually, as well as physically.

Lust, hatred, and dishonesty make a man sick; and neither medicine nor mind can physically help him, unless they make him better morally, and so deliver him from the destroyers. Body and mind are one. The heat of hatred, inflaming brutal propensities, the indulgence of