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372 If we are Christians on all moral questions, but are in darkness as to the physical exemption which Christianity

includes, we shall be more liable to sickness than the indifferent sinner, because we are more alive to the law, and to the fear of doing wrong. It is easier to cure the most malignant disease than it is to cure sin. The author has raised up the dying, partly because they were willing to be restored; while she has struggled long, and perhaps in vain, to lift a student out of a chronic sin. Under metaphysical treatment, the sick recover more rapidly from disease than the sinner from his sin. Healing is easier than teaching, if the teaching is faithfully done.

The fear of disease and the love of sin are the springs of man's enslavement. “The fear of the Lord is the

beginning of Wisdom!” but the Scriptures also declare, through the exalted thought of John, that “perfect Love casteth out fear.”

The fear occasioned by ignorance can be cured; but you cannot remove the effects of fear produced by sin,

so long as the sin remains. Disease is expressed not so much by the lips, as in the functions of the body. Establish the scientific sense of health, and you relieve the oppressed organ, and the inflammation, decomposition, or deposit will abate; and the disabled organ will resume its healthy functions.

When the blood rushes madly through the veins, or languidly creeps along its frozen channels, we call these

conditions disease. This is a misconception. Mortal mind is producing the propulsion or the languor; and we prove this to be so when the