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Rh thought, this alone would usher in the millennium. Bathing and rubbing, to alter the secretions, or remove

unhealthy exhalations from the cuticle, receive a useful rebuke from Christian healing. We must beware of making clean merely the outside of the platter.

He who is ignorant of what is termed hygienic law, is more receptive of spiritual power, and faith in one God,

than the devotee of this supposed law, who comes to teach him. Must we not then call the so-called law of matter a canon “more honored in the breach than the observance”? A patient thoroughly booked in medical theories is more difficult to heal through Mind than one who is not. This verifies the saying of our Master: “Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.”

One whom I rescued from seeming spiritual oblivion, in which the senses had engulfed him, writes to me:

We need a clean body and a clean mind, — a body

rendered pure by Mind, not by matter. One says: “I take good care of my body.” No doubt he attends to it with as much care as he would to