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22 the feet of Mind. Like a barrister who should try to strengthen his plea by commencing, “Woe unto you, lawyers,” mortals entreat God to restore the sick to health, and forthwith, by using material means, shut out the aid of Spirit, thus working against themselves and their prayers, and suffocating man's God-given ability to demonstrate the sacred power. The plea for medicine and the laws of health comes from mortal ignorance of Science and celestial power.

Error produces error. Sickness is error, — inharmony. What causes disease cannot cure it. To admit that sickness is a condition over which God has no control, presupposes that omnipotent power is, on some occasions, null and void. The law of Christ, or Truth, finds all things possible to Spirit; but the so-called laws of matter find Spirit generally of no avail, and demand obedience to materialistic codes, — thus departing from the basis of Divine Science. Discords have no support from divine law, however much is said to the contrary. Antagonistic mortal opinions are incorrect, as Jesus clearly showed, when he healed the sick and raised the dead.

Can the agriculturist produce a crop without sowing the seed, and awaiting its germination according to the laws of God? The Scriptures inform us that sin, or error, first caused the condemnation of man to till the ground. In this case, obedience to Truth will remove this necessity. Truth never made error necessary, or devised a law to perpetuate it. The supposed laws that produce discord are not His laws, for it is the legitimate action of Truth to produce harmony. Laws of nature are truly His laws; but you construe that as law which annuls the power of Spirit. Mind, of a right, demands