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Rh from Metaphysical Healing, that cuts down every tree which brings not forth good fruit. This conviction, that

there is no real pleasure in sin, is one of the most important points in the theology of Christian Science. Arouse the sinner to this new and true view of sin, show him that sin confers no pleasure; and this knowledge strengthens his moral courage, and increases the ability to master evil and to love Good.

Healing the sick and reforming the sinner are one and the same thing in Christian Science. Both cures

require the same method, and are inseparable in Truth. Lust, hatred, and dishonesty make a man sick; and neither medicine nor Mind can help him permanently, even in body, unless they make him better morally, and so deliver him from his destroyers. Mortal body and mind are one. The heat of hatred, inflaming brutal propensities, the indulgence of evil motives and aims, will make any man (who is above the very lowest type of manhood) a hopeless sufferer. They consume the body with the fires of Hell.

Christian Science commands man to master these propensities, — to hold hatred in abeyance with kindness,

to conquer revenge with charity, and to overcome deceit with honesty. Choke these errors in their early stages, if you would not cherish an army of conspirators against health, happiness, and success. They will deliver you to the judge, the arbiter of Truth against error. The judge will deliver you to the officer (justice), and the law's sentence will be executed upon mortal mind and body. Both will be manacled until the last farthing is paid, — until you have balanced your account with God. “Whatsoever a man soweth,