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Rh If Mind is not the master of sin, sickness, and death, they are immortal; for it is already proven that matter has not destroyed them, but is their basis and support.

We should hesitate to say Jehovah sins or suffers; but if sin and suffering are realities of Being, whence did they emanate? God made all that was made, and Mind signifies God, — infinity, not finity. Not far removed from infidelity is the belief which unites such opposites as sickness and health, holiness and unholiness, calls both the offspring of Spirit, and at the same time admits that Spirit is God, virtually declaring Him good in one instance, and evil in another.

By universal consent mortal belief has constituted itself a law to bind mortals to sickness, sin, and death.

This customary belief is misnamed material law, and the physician who upholds it is mistaken in principle and in methods. The law of mortal mind, conjectural and speculative, is made void by the higher law of immortal Mind, and should be trampled mider foot.

If God cause man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil; for all that He

makes is good, and will stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of Wisdom. It is the transgression of a law of mortal mind, not of matter or of divine law, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter.