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Rh ourselves with the law of Love. God never punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for deeds of

kindness, though they expose him to fatigue, cold, heat, contagion. If he incurs the penalty through matter, it is but a belief of mortal mind, not an enactment of Wisdom; and man has only to enter his protest against this belief, in order to annul it. Through this action of thought, and its results upon the body, he will prove to himself, through small beginnings, the grand verities of Being.

If exposure to a draught of air, while in a state of perspiration, is followed by chills, dry cough, influenza,

congestive symptoms in the lungs, or hints of inflammatory rheumatism, your Mind-remedy is safe and sure. If you are a Christian Scientist, such symptoms will not follow from the exposure; but if you believe in laws of matter, and their fatal effects when transgressed, you are not fit to conduct your own case, or to destroy the bad effects of belief. When the fear subsides, and the conviction abides that you have broken no law, neither rheumatism, consumption, nor any other disease will ever result from exposure to the weather.

This is an established fact in Science, which all the evidence before the senses can never overrule. Sickness

sin, and death must at length quail before the divine rights of Intelligence; and then the power of Mind, over the entire functions and organs of the human system, will be acknowledged. It is proverbial that Florence Nightingale, and other philanthropists engaged in humane labors, have been able to undergo, without sinking, fatigues and exposures which