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376 not the master of joy, and that he should rejoice always.

Invalids flee to tropical climates, in order to save their lives; but they come back no better than they went

away. Then is the time to cure them with Christian Science, and prove that they can be healthy in all climates, when their fear of climate is driven out.

Through different states of mind, the body becomes suddenly weak or abnormally strong, showing mortal

mind to be the producer of strength or weakness. A sudden joy or grief has caused a belief in instantaneous death. Because a belief originates unseen, it produces blindly its bad effects. The author never knew a patient who did not recover when the belief of the disease was gone. Remove the leading error and governing fear of this lower mind, and you remove the cause of any disease, as well as the morbid and excited action of any organ. You also remove, in this way, what are termed organic diseases as readily as functional difficulties.

The remote cause of all disease is mental, even a mistaken belief, — a conviction of the necessity and power

of ill-health, and a conclusion that Mind is helpless to defend the Life of man, and wholly incompetent to control it. Without illusion any circumstance is of itself powerless to produce suffering. It is latent belief in disease, as well as the fear of disease, which associates sickness with certain circumstances, and causes the two to appear conjoined, even as poetry and music are reproduced in union by human memory. Disease has no intelligence. Unwittingly you sentence