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Rh of goodness, and seeks to equal it. The greatest wrong is but the supposit it ious opposite of the highest

right. The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error unreal. Error is a coward before Truth. Truth is mighty, while error is powerless. Divine Science insists that time will prove this. Both Truth and error have come nearer than ever before to the apprehension of mortals. Truth will become still clearer, but error will be self-destroyed.

Against the fatal belief that error is as real as Truth, — that evil is equal in power to Good, if not superior,

and that discord is as normal as harmony, — even the hope of freedom from the bondage of sickness and sin has little inspiration to nerve endeavor. When we come to have more faith in the Truth of Being than we have in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith in God than in man, then no material conditions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error through Truth.

That Life is not contingent on bodily conditions is proven, when we see that Life and man survive this

body. Neither evil, disease, nor death can be discerned spiritually, and the mortal sense of them disappears in the ratio of our spiritual growth. Because matter has no consciousness, or Ego, its conditions are unreal, and these false conditions are the source of all sickness. Admit the existence of matter, and we admit that mortality (and therefore disease) has a foundation in fact. Deny the existence of matter, and we destroy the belief in these conditions, and with it disappears the foundation of disease. Once let the