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104 The Scripture says, “In Him we live, move, and have our Being.” What then is this seeming power, independent

of God, which causes disease and cures it? What is it but an error in belief, — a law of mortal mind, wrong in every sense, embracing sin, sickness, and death? It is the very antipodes of Immortal Mind and spiritual law. It is not in accordance with the goodness of God's character that He should make man sick, and then leave him to heal himself. It is absurd to suppose that Spirit will produce disease, and leave the remedy to matter.

John Young, of Edinburgh, writes: “God is the father of Mind, and of nothing else.” Such an utterance is

“the voice of One Crying in the wilderness” of human beliefs, and preparing the way of Science. Let us learn of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of Spirit, the Kingdom of Heaven, — the reign and rule of universal harmony, which cannot be lost, or remain forever unseen.

Mind, not matter, is causation. A material body only expresses a material and mortal mind. A mortal man

possesses this body, and he makes it harmonious or discordant, according to the images of thought impressed upon it. You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness. You should banish all thoughts of disease and sin, and other beliefs included in matter. Man, being immortal, has a perfect, indestructible Life. It is the mortal belief which makes the body discordant and diseased, in proportion as it is governed by ignorance, fear, and human will.