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Rh though unacknowledged, the latent fear remains strongly in thought.

Just so it is with the greatest crime. It is the most subtle, and does its work almost unperceived. The

diseases deemed dangerous come from the most hidden, undefined, and insidious beliefs. The pallid invalid, whom you declare to be wasting away with consumption of the blood, should be told that blood never gave life, and can never take it away, — that there is more Life and Immortality in one good motive and act, than in all the blood which ever flowed through mortal veins, simulating a corporeal sense of material life.

If the body is material, it cannot, for that very reason, suffer with a fever. Because the body is mental, and

governed by mortal mind, it manifests only what that mind impresses upon it. Therefore the efficient remedy is to destroy the patient's unfortunate belief, by both silently and audibly arguing the opposite facts in regard to harmonious Being, — representing man as healthful instead of diseased, and showing that it is impossible for matter to suffer, to feel pain or heat, to be thirsty or sick. Destroy fear, and you end the fever. Some people, mistaught as to Mind-Science, inquire of my students when it will be safe to check a fever. Know that in Science you cannot check a fever, after admitting that it must have its course. To fear and admit the power of disease, is to paralyze mental and Christianly Scientific demonstration.

If your patient believes in taking cold, mentally convince him that matter cannot take cold, and

that thought governs this liability. If grief causes suffering, convince the sufferer that sorrow is