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Rh advanced that he is disgusted with the “science of guessing.”

When treating the sick, first make your mental plea in behalf of harmony, — that health is the everlasting fact, and sickness the opposite falsity. Then realize the absence of disease, since Science denies its presence, and the senses will say Amen! Stick to the Truth of Being, in contradistinction to the error that Life, Substance, or Intelligence can be in matter. Plead with an honest conviction of Truth, and a clear perception of the unchanging, unerring, and certain effect of Science. Then, if your morals are half equal to the virtue of your plea, you will heal the sick.

Explain audibly to your patient (as soon as he can bear it) the utter control that Mind holds over the body. Show him how mortal mind induces disease by certain fears and false conclusions, and how Mind can cure by opposite thoughts. Give him an underlying understanding to support him, and shield him against the baneful effects of his own beliefs. Show him that the conquest over sickness, as well as over sin, depends on mentally destroying the effects of error.

To decide quickly as to the proper treatment of error, — whether it be manifested in forms of sickness, sin, or death, — is the first step towards destroying it. Our Master treated it through Mind. He never enjoined obedience to “the laws of nature,” if by that is meant “the laws of matter,” nor did he use drugs. There is a law of Mind applied to healing. That law belongs to God; and it should be heeded and practised in the way our Master taught, — namely, through Mind instead of matter.