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344 developed according to it. This materialism of parent and child is in mortal mind, as the dead body proves; for that body, when the law of this mind has doomed it to decay, is no longer thy parent.

The Science of Being unveils the errors of sense; and spiritual perception, aided by Science, is able to reach Truth. Then error disappears. Sin, sickness, and death will abate, and seem less real, as we approach that Utopian period, and then we shall no more fall into sickness than into sin. The moral man has no fear of committing a murder, and he should be as strong on the question of disease.

The Christian Scientist goes on to conquer sin, sickness, and death; and he will overcome them in proportion as he is conscious of their powerlessness, and of the might of divine power. Sickness, to him, is no less a temptation than sin is, and he heals them both by understanding God's power over them. He knows they are errors of belief, that Truth can and will destroy.

Resist the devil — error, of whatever sort — and it will flee from you. Error is opposed to Life. We can and shall ultimately so rise as to avail ourselves of the supremacy of Truth over error, Life over death, and Good over evil, in every direction; and this will go on until we no more fear that we shall be sick and die, than that we shall steal, murder, or commit suicide. Sickness, as well as sin, involves weakness, temptation, and fall, — a loss of that control over the body which the apostle declared to be “our reasonable service.”

Let the slave of wrong desire learn the lessons of Science, and he will get the better of that desire, and ascend a degree in the scale of health, happiness, and Life.