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386 limits of mental endurance, we conclude that intellectual labor is carried sufficiently far; but when we realize that

immortal Mind is ever active, and that spiritual energies cannot wear out, or trespass upon God-given powers and resources, we are able to rest in Truth, refreshed by the assurances of immortality, opposed to mortality.

Our thinkers do not die early because they faithfully perform the natural functions of Being. If printers and

authors have the shortest span of earthly existence, it is not because they occupy most important posts and perform the most vital functions of society. That man does not pay the severest penalty who does the most good. By holding on to the facts of eternal existence, — instead of reading disquisitions on the inconsistent supposition that death comes in obedience to the law of life, and that God punishes man for doing good, — one cannot suffer as the result of any labor of love, but grows stronger because of it. It is a law of so-called mortal mind, not matter, which causes all things discordant.

The history of Christianity furnishes sublime proofs of the supporting influence and protecting power

bestowed on man by his heavenly Father, omnipotent Mind, who gives him faith and understanding whereby to defend himself, not only from temptation, but from bodily suffering.

The Christian martyrs were prophets of Christian Science. Through the uplifting and consecrating power of divine Truth they obtained a victory over the corporeal senses, a victory which Science alone can explain. Stolidity, which is a resisting state of mortal mind,