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Rh yourself to suffer. The understanding of this will enable you to commute this self-sentence, and meet every circumstance as its master. Disease is less than mind, and Mind can control it.

Without mind, there can be no inflammatory or torpid action of the system. Remove the error, and you destroy

its effects. By looking a tiger fearlessly in the eye, Sir Charles Napier sent him cowering back into the jungle. An animal may infuriate another by looking him in the eye, and both will fight for nothing. A man's gaze, fastened fearlessly on a ferocious beast, often causes him to retreat in terror. This latter occurrence represents the power of Truth over error, — the might of Intelligence, exercised over mortal beliefs, to destroy them; whereas hygienic drilling and drugging, adopted to cure disease, is represented by the two beasts, who quarrel on an intensely unreal basis, into which mind scarcely enters.

Disease is not an intelligence to dispute the empire of Mind, or dethrone it, and take the government into its

own hands. Sickness is not a self-constituted material power, which copes astutely with Mind, and finally conquers it. God never endowed matter with power to disable Mind, and chill harmony with a long and cold night of discord. Such a power, without the divine permission, is inconceivable; and if divinely directed, such a power manifests less wisdom than we usually find displayed in human governments.

If disease can attack and control the body, without the consent of mortal mind, sin can do the same;

for both are errors, and were announced as partners in the beginning. The Christian Scientist