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Rh drugs, and produces permanent health. Science must go over the whole ground, and dig up every seed of their

sowing. Spiritualism relies upon human beliefs and hypotheses. Science removes these beliefs and hypotheses, through its higher understanding, for it rests on Principle in its revelation of immortality, not on material personalities, and so introduces the harmony of Being.

Jesus cast out evil spirits, or false beliefs. The Apostle Paul bade men have the Mind that was in the Christ. Jesus did his own work by the one Spirit. He said: “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” He never described disease, so far as can be learned from the Gospels, but he healed it.

The unscientific practitioner says: “You are ill. Your brain is overtaxed, and you must rest. Your body

is weak, and it must be strengthened. You have nervous prostration, and must be treated for it.” Science objects to all this, contending for the rights of Intelligence, and asserting that Mind controls body and brain.

Mind-Science teaches that mortals need “not be weary in well-doing.” It dissipates fatigue in doing good. Giving

does not impoverish us in the service of our Maker, neither does withholding enrich us. We have strength in proportion to our Truth, and our strength is not lessened by giving utterance to Truth. A cup of coffee or tea is not the equal of Truth, whether for the inspiration of a sermon or for the support of bodily endurance.

A communication, purporting to come from the late Theodore Parker, reads as follows: “There never was,