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Rh Unless an ill is rightly met and fairly overcome by Truth, it is never conquered. If God destroys not sin,

sickness, and death, they are not destroyed in mortal mind, but seem to this mind to be immortal. What God cannot do, man need not attempt. If God heals not the sick, it is because He cannot or will not. In either case feebler attempts would be hopeless, for no lesser power equals the infinite All-power.

If God makes sin, if Good produces evil, and Truth results in error, then Science is helpless; but there are no antagonistic powers or laws, either spiritual or material, creating and governing man through perpetual warfare. As God is not the author of these human discords, we may accept the conclusion that they have only a fabulous existence, and are of human instead of divine origin.

To hold yourself superior to sin — because God made you superior to it, and governs man — is true wisdom.

To fear sin is to misunderstand the power of Love, and the Divine Science of Being in man's relation to God, — to doubt His government, and distrust His omnipotent care. To hold yourself superior to sickness and death is equally wise, and in accordance with Divine Science. To fear them is impossible, when you fully apprehend God, and know that they are no part of His creation.

Man, governed by his Maker, having no other God, — planted on the Evangelist's statement that “all things were made by him [the Word of God], and without him was not anything made that was made,” — can triumph over sin, sickness, and death.