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Rh simply because, to the outward senses, there is seeming discord. It is our ignorance of God, the divine

Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony. Truth will at length compel us all to exchange the pleasures of sense for the joys of Soul.

When the first symptoms of disease appear, dispute the testimony of the senses by Divine Science. Let your

higher sense of justice destroy the false process of mortal opinions which you name law; and then you will not be confined to a sick-room, or laid upon a bed of suffering, in payment of the last farthing, the last penalty demanded by error. “Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him.” Suffer no claim of sin or sickness to grow upon the thought. Dismiss it, with an abiding conviction that its claims are illegitimate, because you know that God is no more the author of sickness than He is of sin. You have no law of His, to support the necessity either of sin or sickness, but you have divine authority for denying that necessity.

“Agree to disagree” with approaching symptoms of chronic or acute disease, whether cancer, consumption,

or small-pox. Meet the incipient stages of disease with such powerful eloquence as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Rise, in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth, to overthrow the plea of matter, or mortal mind, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. Blot out the images of mortal thought, and its beliefs in sickness and sin. Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, the judge will say, “Well done!”