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114 talking; and that which affirms weariness, first made that weariness.

You would not say that a wheel is fatigued; and yet the body is just as material as the wheel. If it were

not for what the human mind says of the body, the body would never be weary, any more than the inanimate wheel. An understanding of this great fact rests you more than hours of repose.

The body is supposed to say, “I am ill.” The reports of sickness may form a coalition with the reports of

sin, and say, “I am malice, lust, appetite, envy, hate.” What renders both sin and sickness difficult of cure is, that the human mind is the sinner, disinclined to self-correction, and believing that the body can be sick, independently of mortal mind, and that the divine Mind has no jurisdiction over it.

Why pray for the recovery of the sick, if you are without faith in God's willingness and ability to heal

them? If you believe in that, why do you substitute drugs for the Almighty's power, and employ a doctor to lead us contrary to God's will?

Treat a belief in sickness as you would sin, with sudden dismissal. Resist the temptation to believe in matter as intelligent sensation or power.

The Scriptures admonish us to “run and not be weary, . . . walk and not faint.” The meaning of that passage is not perverted by applying it literally to moments of fatigue, for the moral and physical are as one in their results. When we wake to the Truth of Being, all error, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, and death