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380 the illusion that you are sick, or that some disease is developing in the system, than you are to yield to a sinful temptation, on the ground that sin has its necessities.

When infringing some supposed law, you say there is danger; and this fear causes, of itself, the danger, and

induces the physical effects. We cannot suffer in reality from breaking any law, except it be a moral or spiritual law. The laws of mortal belief are destroyed by the understanding that Soul is immortal, and that mortal mind cannot legislate the times, periods, and types of disease, wherewith men die. God legislates, but God is not the author of barbarous codes. In the realm governed by Him, there is no sickness.

Think less of the enactments of mortal mind, and you will sooner grasp man's God-given dominion. You must

understand your way out of human theories relating to health, or you will never believe that you are quite free from some ailment. The harmony and immortality of man will never be reached, without the understanding that Mind is not in matter. Let us banish sickness as an outlaw, and abide by the rule of perpetual harmony, — God's law. Man's moral right is to annul an unjust sentence, a sentence never inflicted by divine authority.

Expose the error which would impose penalties for transgressions of the physical laws of health, —

supposed laws of matter, opposed to the harmonies of Spirit, lacking divine authority, and having only human approval for their sanction.

If half the attention given to hygiene were given to the study of Christian Science, and its elevation of