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82 envy, and malice ripen into action, only to pass on from shame and woe to their next stage, self-destruction.

The dream of disease is like the dreams we have in sleep, wherein every one recognizes suffering to be

wholly in mortal mind. In both cases the dreamer thinks his body is material, and that the suffering is in that body.

The smile of the sleeper indicates the sensation produced physically by the pleasure of a dream. In the same way pain and pleasure, sickness and care, are traced in unmistakable signs upon the face.

Sickness is a growth of error, springing from man's ignorance of Science. Error rehearses error. What causes disease cannot cure it. The soil of disease is mortal mind, and you have an abundant or scanty crop, according to the seedlings in that soil, unless they are uprooted and cast out.

When darkness comes over the earth, the physical senses have no immediate evidence of a sun. The human

eye knows not where the orb of day is, or if it exists. Astronomy gives the desired information. The human senses yield to its authority, and they are willing to leave with astronomy the explanation of the sun's influence over the earth. It the eyes see no sun for a week, we still believe there is solar light and heat. Natural science in this instance raises the thought above its cruder theories, and establishes a higher theory.

In like manner mortals should no more deny the power of Christian Science to establish harmony, and show the effect of mortal mind on the body, — though the cause