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86 The rotations and revolutions of mortal mind are now going on, though often unconsciously. Mortals move onward towards good or evil, as time glides on. If not progressing, the past must be repeated until its poor work is effaced and rectified. If at present satisfied with wrong-doing, we must become dissatisfied with it. If at present content with idleness, we must loathe this leisure.

In this undoing of the errors of sense, here or hereafter, one must pay the utmost farthing, in order to bring the body into subjection to Spirit. Unwinding one's snarls, learning from experience, dividing (through pangs unspeakable) between error and Truth — these are the divine methods of paying the wages of sin.

“Those whom He loveth He chasteneth.” He who knows the demands of Divine Science, and yet refuses obedience thereto, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Vegetarianism, homœopathy, and hydropathy have diminished drugging; but if drugs are an antidote to disease, why lessen the antidote? If drugs are good things, is it safe to say that the less you have of them the better? If drugs possess intrinsic curative qualities, those qualities must be mental. Who named them, and what made them good or bad, beneficial or injurious to mortals? Matter is not self-creative, being unintelligent; and mortal mind constitutes the only power a drug can possess.

Christian Science is sunlight to the body. It invigorates and purifies. It acts as an alterative, neutralizing error with Truth. It changes the secretions, expels humors, dissolves tumors, relaxes rigid muscles, restores carious bones to soundness. The effects of this Science