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330 Mind is the master of the senses, and can conquer sickness, just as it conquers sin. Exercise this authority. Take possession of your body, and govern its feelings as well as its actions.

Rise in the strength of Spirit, to resist all that is unlike God. He has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed.

Plead the case in Science and for Truth. You may vary the arguments, to meet the peculiar or general symptoms of the case you treat; but “be thoroughly persuaded in your own mind,” and you will finally be the winner.

It must be clear to you that sickness is no more the reality of being than sin is. This mortal dream of sickness, sin, and death should cease through Science. Then one disease would be as readily destroyed as another.

It is easier to cure the most malignant disease than it is to cure sin. I have raised up the dying, partly because they were willing to be restored; while I have struggled long, and perhaps in vain, to lift a student out of a chronic sin. The sick recover more rapidly from disease under metaphysical treatment, than the sinner from his sin. Healing is easier than teaching, if the teaching is faithfully done.

Healing the sick and reforming the sinner are one and the same thing in Christian Science. Both cures require the same method, and are inseparable in Truth. When helped metaphysically the sick should never deny their improvement, or impute it to some material cause.

The ordinary practitioner, examining bodily symptoms, telling the patient he is sick, and treating the case according to his diagnosis, would by this course induce that very disease, even if it were not already determined