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Rh says that you catch cold and have catarrh; but no such result occurs without mind to demand it and produce it.

While mortals declare that certain states of the atmosphere produce catarrh, fever, rheumatism, or consumption, those effects will follow, — not because of the climate, but on account of the belief. The author has healed diseases in too many instances, through the action of Truth on the mind, and its corresponding effects on the body, not to know that what she says is true.

A blundering despatch, mistakenly announcing the death of a friend, occasions the same grief that his

real death would bring. You think your anguish is occasioned by your loss. Another despatch, correcting the mistake, heals that grief, and you learn that your suffering was merely the result of your belief. Thus it is with all sorrow, sickness, and death. You will learn at length that there is no cause for grief, and divine Wisdom will then be understood. Error, not Truth, produces all the suffering on earth.

If a Christian Scientist had said, while you were laboring under the influence of this belief, “Your

sorrow is without cause,” you would not have understood him, although the correctness of the assertion might be afterwards proven to you. So when cur friends pass from our sight, and we lament, that lamentation is needless and causeless. We shall know this to be true, when we grow into the understanding of Life.

Because mortal mind is kept active, must it pay the penalty in a softened brain? Who dares to say that actual Mind can be overworked? When we reach our